Communicative objectives
- To introduce oneself and others, ask questions and answer about personal information
- Greeting, thanking, apologising
- initiating, maintaining and closing contact (face to face or telephone)
- Ask and give information in everyday situations (price, dates and time, directions, means of transport etc.)
- Talk about everyday actions
- Expressing tastes, wishes, moods
- Make, accept and refuse proposals
- Interact in shops, bars and restaurants
- Understand instructions given slowly
- Ask and give permission
- Ask for clarifications and explanations
- Describe one's physical appearance, personality and studies
- Recount past events
- Understand short written texts such as postcards, e-mail messages, cooking recipes, understand the purpose of a message; identify specific information in notices and simple texts
- Understand simple oral monologue texts spoken slowly
- Writing simple sentences, postcards, e-mail messages, diary pages
Spelling and pronunciation
- Sounds and graphemes of Italian
- Tonic (in pronunciation) and graphic accents in the most frequent words: perché, più, però etc.
- Use of the apostrophe
- Intonation of declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences
- Doubles
Grammar
- Definitive, indeterminative, partitive articles
- Gender and number agreement of nouns, adjectives and articles
- Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
- Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns
- Negative and interrogative sentences
- Present indicative of regular and main irregular verbs, reflexive and modal verbs
- I like/ I like
- Present progressive: stare + gerund
- Past perfect and imperfect
- Simple future
- Conditional: the I would form
- Some forms of the imperative
- Subject personal pronouns
- Direct personal pronouns
- Simple and articulate prepositions in expressions of time, place, etc.
- The presentative "there": there is/there are
- Adverbs of time (now, then, often, etc.), place (here,here,there...), quantity (very, little)
- Main discursive connectives and signs
- Form of politeness: recognition and use of tu (informal) vs. Lei (formal)
- The present tense: review of regular and irregular forms
- The near past
- The imperfect
- Use of the imperfect vs. the past perfect
- The present conditional
- The informal imperative
- Some forms of the formal imperative (tell me, excuse me...)
- The simple future with temporal value
- The impersonal yes
- Direct and indirect pronouns
- The pronouns ci and ne
- Agreement of direct pronouns with the near past
- The use of the main connectives
- Adjectives and indefinite pronouns (every, some, too much, other, all, some)
- Adjective degrees (majority comparative, plus/minus + adjective, and absolute superlative: suffix -very, very + adjective)



Lexicon
- Alphabet and numbers
- Expressions of quantity
- Everyday life
- The house and its furnishings
- Clothing
- The family
- The weather
- Means of transport
- Shops and shopping
- Food
- The human body
- Health
- Work and study
- Sport and leisure
- Daily habits and actions
Interacting in a shop
The family and degrees of kinship Childhood
- The Italian school and university system Cultural events in Italy
Psycho-physical description of a person
Food and eating habits
- The weather
The rooms of the house, furniture and objects in the house The human body and health
Travel and holidays.

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New Italian Espresso, textbook beginner and pre-intermediate, Vol. 1, liv. A1-A2, Alma Edizioni, settembre 2014.