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Italian Lower Intermediate (LL188)

This course will not be offered in 2021/22

Summary

Level:

You will have completed over 100 hours of tuition fairly recently or you have a reasonable foundation in the language at school level, possibly to 'O'/GCSE level up to grade B or equivalent. You can deal with most common 'survival' situations confidently. You now want to start moving beyond merely practising simple exchanges during your holiday or work trip abroad, learning to cope in non-routine situations and contributing to conversations on topics of general interest.

Main Objectives:

The course will demand more of you by way of vocabulary learning and extend your understanding of the grammar of the language, e.g. by learning more tenses.

Please read our Can-do Statements (link on the right of this page) to see the competences which you will be working towards and can achieve by the end of the year.

Teaching:

1 x 2 hour class per week plus some independent learning.

 

Course Texts

  • Nuovo Espresso 2, Maria Bali, Giovanna Rizzo, Alma Edizioni, ISBN: 9788-861823-204 (book + DVD ROM) - white and green cover.

Course Description

This course is designed to build on previous language learning by taking you beyond basic everyday situations. The Lower Intermediate course aims to develop speaking skills through a variety of pair and group work activities. By the end of the course you will be able to participate in conversations on topics of general interest. The lessons will give you the opportunity to consolidate your knowledge of foundational grammar whilst extending your understanding by learning more past and future tenses.

Syllabus

Units 5 – 10 of Nuovo Espresso 2 cover the following:

Topics

  • making requests

  • showing agreement and disagreement

  • showing surprise

  • asking for information

  • giving advice

  • expressing needs

  • expressing opinion

  • describing health problems

  • convincing someone

  • talking about the future

  • expressing wishes

  • expressing conditions

  • making suppositions

  • talking about the past

  • promoting conversation

  • describing items

  • making comparisons

Grammar

  • prepositions and prepositions with article
  • past perfect
  • avere or essere
  • simple future
  • future perfect
  • possessive adjectives
  • imperfect
  • imperative
  • comparatives
  • direct pronouns

Skills

  • listening, speaking, reading and writing.