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.