LANGUAGE COURSES PROGRAMS

ITALIAN LANGUAGE CEFR LEVELS

ELEMENTARY COURSE (A1-A2)

This course aims to enable students to grasp the fundamental structures of Italian grammar and the more basic forms of communication, according to the A1-A2 level of the CEFR. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand short and simple descriptive texts and to interact in a simple way on every-day and familiar topics(family work, hobbies). Students are placed into a multilingual classroom and are involved in a group dynamic that encourages sociocultural debate.

INTERMEDIATE COURSE (A2- B1)

This course allows students to consolidate and increase their knowledge of Italian grammar.Students are also called to improve their communication skills. By the end of the course students will be able to understand a variety of medium difficulty texts and to produce short descriptive and narrative texts. Students gain experience interacting with native speakers in private and public contexts (traveling, shopping, city services). Students are placed into a multilingual classroom and are involved in a group dynamic that encourages sociocultural debate.

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE COURSE(B1-B2)

This course aims to improve Italian language competence reaching the skills according to the B2 level of the CEFR. The course develops students' aptitude to understand and produce medium lenght argumentative and narrative texts, to increase their vocabulary related to specific areas of study(art, literature, cinema, theater). and to interact more spontaneously with native speakers. By the end of the course students will be able to express opinions on socio-cultural issues. Students are placed in a multilingual classroom and are involved in a group dynamic that encourages sociocultural and sociolinguistic debate.

ADVANCED COURSE(C1)

This course is dedicated to the achievement of Effective OperationalProficiency level (C1) described in the CEFR. Students consolidate and increase writting and speaking skills from the previous levels and develop proficiency by producing clear and well-constructed argumentative, narrative and expository texts , improving their ability to communicate and maintaining easy and natural interactions with native speakers(in formal and informal contexts). By the end of the course students will acquire a flexible and effective language for social, academic and professional communications. Students are placed into a multilingual classroom and are called to actively partecipate in the group dynamic, through a sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspective.

A1-A2-B1-B2-C1 COURSES: PROGRAMS

A1

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS - Greeting people - Asking questions during the lesson - Introducing oneself and others - Asking about personal information (age, job, telephone number, address) - Being formal and informal - Ordering in restaurants and bars - Talking about likes and dislikes - Asking and telling the time - Talking/asking about your work and leisure time - Talking about your daily routine - Describing a place - Describing a person - Asking and giving directions - Inviting others to do something - Accepting or declining an offer or invitation - Buying and asking prices - Writing a postcard-email - Talking about past experiences - Filling in forms with personal data

GRAMMAR POINTS - Numbers - Gender and number of nouns - Definite and indefinite articles - Gender and number of adjectives - Interrogative words (dove, di dove, quando, perché, come, chi, che cosa?) - Adverbs of frequency - Demonstrative pronouns(questo/quello) - Object Pronouns - Present tense of regular verbs - Present tense of the most common irregular verbs - Present tense of reflexive verbs - The verb piacere - The verb sapere - Modal verbs - Past tense of regular and the most common irregular verbs (passato prossimo) - Imperative (2nd person singular) - There is, there are (c’è, ci sono) - The most common irregular verbs (past tense) - Basic prepositions - Introduction to spelling and phonetics

VOCABULARY - The class will work on the following semantic areas: greetings, nationality, personal description, time, days, months, dates, professions and workplaces, food and drinks, clothes, colors, daily activities and free time activities, place/house description, shopping, traveling.

ABILITIES - During this course the 4 language abilities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) will be practiced in order to reach the A1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: - Understand phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, holidays). Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements. Understand basic instructions. - Understand short and simple texts and personal letters. Understand basic notices, instructions or information. - Write short texts, postcards, messages and notes. Fill in forms with personal details. - Interact in a simple way: ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics. Take part in a basic factual conversation on a predictable topic.