Students will be able to: 1.understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. 2. introduce themselves and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where they live, people they know and things they have. 3. interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Interactive lessons (communicative method). Tasks to be carried out for self-study. Tutoring-workshop meetings held by a tutor.
Assessment Methods
Final oral exam.
Texts
Piantoni, Bozzone Costa, Fumagalli, Volentieri! Corso di lingua e cultura italiana. Livello A1, Loescher, 2021, chapters. 1-5.
Contents
Communicative functions: introducing oneself, affirming, denying, asking and saying your telephone number, expressing tastes, introducing and describing someone, asking and giving directions to move around a city, indicating something or someone, asking for personal information, offering, accepting and refusing something, asking and saying the time, describing a city, talking about family, daily activities, and free time, finding out about someone's daily schedules, finding out about someone's plans, making a proposal, accepting and declining an invitation, expressing uncertainty , asking and saying the quantity, making arrangements, expressing tastes, interacting in stores, making a request and responding, giving orders and instructions, describing places and activities, describing object’ location in a space. Lexicon: greetings, expressions with essere e avere, expressions of time, professions, numbers, adjectives to describe nationality, people, food, places, and buildings in a city, means of transportation, musical instruments, food and drink, family, parts of the day, days of the week, adverbs and expressions of frequency and time, free time activities and places, expressions indicating quantity, shops, words to place objects in a space. Grammar: present indicative of regular, irregular, and reflexive verbs, imperative, passato prossimo and past participle of regular verbs, definite and indefinite articles, gender and number of nouns and adjectives, simple and articulated prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, possessive adjectives, third person direct pronouns and indirect pronouns, piacere, c’è/ci sono.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Topics and syllabus of the course may slightly change based on the actual level of competence of the students.
