- Being able to understand simple oral and written messages and announcements related to familiar topics, work, university, and free time; - Introduce yourself and others; - Being able to interact in conversations related to familiar topics, daily life, and personal matters; - Being able to express one's likes and preferences; - Writing short texts related to daily life; - Writing short informal and formal emails to request information; - Filling out forms.
Teaching Methods
lectures cooperative leaning role playing
Assessment Methods
oral exam
Texts
KIRO Platform https://elearning.unipv.it/course/view.php?id=9598 Morano, L., Alfa Beta Gramma, grammatica schematizzata dal livello A1 al C1, Nina Edizioni, 2024
Contents
COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS - Formal and informal greetings - Introducing yourself and others - Asking for explanations, asking someone to repeat - Asking for information, prices, and opening/closing hours - Asking for and telling the time - Ordering at a café and/or restaurant - At the greengrocer’s - Talking about likes and dislikes - Asking for and stating one’s profession - Talking about daily habits and their frequency - Talking about free time - Making, accepting, or declining an invitation - Making a request and asking for permission - Giving and asking for advice - Describing the weather - Talking about health - Talking about sports one practices - Describing one’s family - Means of transport - Narrating something in the past
MORPHOSYNTACTIC STRUCTURES - The present indicative of regular verbs - Personal pronouns - Gender of nouns and adjectives - Esserci (c’è / ci sono) - Demonstrative adjectives - Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles - Singular and plural forms of nouns and adjectives - Cardinal and ordinal numbers - Expressions with the verb “fare” - The adjective “bello” - Use of simple and articulated prepositions - Difference between “andare” and “venire” - Improper prepositions - Possessive adjectives - Present indicative of regular verbs, including reflexive verbs, and the main irregular verbs (andare, uscire, fare, etc.) - The construction of the verb “piacere” - Modal verbs - Difference between “conoscere”, “sapere”, and “potere” - Stare + gerund - Stare per + infinitive - Adverbs of time - Adverbs of frequency - Passato prossimo of regular and irregular verbs Elements of Italian Phonetics - The Italian alphabet and the pronunciation of letters - Double consonants - Hard and soft c / g sounds (ca/ce, ga/ge) - sc / gl / gn sounds - Pronunciation of qu / cu / cqu - Word stress
Course Language
ITALIAN
More information
On the Kiro platform, there are eight units specifically designed for this course. Each unit includes videos, e-tivities, cartoons, games to enhance language learning, and quizzes. The units are structured progressively, as each one is preparatory to the next.
