Continue learning Italian and exploring its rich culture in this engaging course designed for near beginners. You will expand your vocabulary and refine your grammar, focusing on everyday topics such as holidays, weekend activities, weather, and food shopping.
Through interactive exercises and the cultural project Racconta l’Italia, you will develop confidence in using key structures, including the passato prossimo, reflexive verbs, prepositions, and direct pronouns.
Emphasis will be placed on practical communication to enhance your speaking skills. This course will cover Units 7, 8, and 9, supplemented with games and activities. On completion, you can progress onto Post-Beginners Italian pt1 (A2).
Course Outline
Course start date: Saturday 11 October
Course end date: Saturday 13 December
Time: 11:00 to 12:30
Location: Castlehaven Community Association
Price: £250
Topics
Revision of what covered in term 2
Holidays
Weekend activities
The weather
At the market
Food shopping
Quantities
Daily routine
Project: Racconta l’Italia
Grammar
Present perfect (passato prossimo), the past tense
Past participle (participio passato)
Reflexive verbs
Prepositions and combined prepositions
Adverbs of time
Quantities
Adjectives
Superlative
Partitives (singular)
Direct pronouns
Impersonal verbs
Learning outcomes (what you will be able to do by the end of the course):
– Describing a past holiday/past activity
– talking about the weather
– Buying food at the market
– Expressing quantities
– Describing procedures like recipes
– Asking for the price of items at the market
– Asking for specific quantities
– Describing your daily routine
– Building short sentences using the present perfect
Info about the course and resources
This course is focused on spoken interaction and communication. Typical activities include pair work, group work, role plays and games. Your teacher will provide a range of activities to support your learning including presentations, hand-outs, and audio-visual material. After each session, you will be assigned homework which is highly recommended to consolidate learning.
About the textbook
Textbook:
Ziglio L & Rizzo G (2022) Nuovo espresso 1: Libro dello studente e esercizi Florence: Alma Edizioni (Italian version)
Books you may find useful:
Ziglio L (2015) Nuovo espresso 1: Esercizi supplementari Florence: Alma Edizioni
Adorni S – Primorac K (2011) English grammar for students of Italian: The study guide for those learning Italian Ann Arbor, MI: Olivia and Hill Press
