| ITALIAN LANGUAGE – INTERMEDIATE/ UPPER INTERMEDIATE
(objectives)
The course aims to develop the ability to interact in everyday public (stores, everyday services, offices), personal (family, friends), and university (secretarial, interviews, exams) situations.
During the course, the four skills (listening, reading, oral and written production) will be developed in order to reach an A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand for the most part an oral text, monologue or dialogue, produced by Italian speakers relating to familiar topics, work, school, leisure, etc.
- Understand simple presentations, routine instructions, simple telephone messages and predictable news.
- Read and understand short texts related to everyday life or work. Understand announcements, advertisements, news articles, regulations and instructions, as long as they are short and simple.
- Write personal letters, short e-mails requesting information, cover letters and thank-you messages.
- Handle daily routine dialogues, ask questions, answer and exchange information on familiar topics of everyday life: traveling, eating, lodging and shopping.
- Describe family, people, places and tell about personal experiences, present and past, routine habits or behaviors, living or working conditions.
- Express one's tastes with simple expressions.
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Code
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119573 |
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Language
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ENG |
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Type of certificate
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Competence
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Credits
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3
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Contact Hours
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24
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Type of Activity
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Other activities
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Teacher
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Bellumori Claudia
(syllabus)
Understand instructions given slowly
- Asking for and giving permission
- Ask for clarifications and explanations
- Describe physical appearance, one's personality and studies done
- 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 informational texts
- Understand simple oral monologic texts spoken slowly
- Write simple sentences, postcards, e-mail messages, diary pages
GRAMMAR:
Present progressive: stare + gerund
- Present perfect and imperfect past
- 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 (a lot, a little)
- Main discursive connectives and signals
- Form of politeness: recognition and use of you (informal) vs. She (formal)
- The present tense: review of regular and irregular forms
- The near past
- The imperfect
- Use of the imperfect vs. the near past
- 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 there 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, more/less + adjective, and absolute superlative: suffix -very, very + adjective)
LEXICON:
Daily habits and actions
• Interacting in a store
•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 household objects The human body and health
•Travel and vacations.
(reference books)
New Italian Espresso, textbook beginner and pre-intermediate, Vol. 1, liv. A1-A2, Alma Edizioni, settembre 2014.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
At a distance
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
Oral exam
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