Continue learning Italian and deepening your cultural understanding in this dynamic course designed for lower-intermediate learners. Through Units 7, 8 and 9 of Nuovo Espresso 2, you will broaden your vocabulary on health, lifestyle, work, and future plans, while reviewing and strengthening essential grammar such as pronouns, the formal imperative, the future tense, and structures like servire, metterci, and stare per + infinito.
Through interactive activities and a creative writing project, you will build confidence in describing symptoms, giving advice, discussing wellbeing, talking about work, and expressing future intentions and conditions.
Emphasis is placed on practical communication to enhance your fluency and spontaneity.
This course will cover Units 7, 8 and 9 with additional games and conversation practice. On completion, you can progress onto Pre-Intermediate Italian pt2 (A2).
Course Outline
Course start date: Wednesday 21 January
Course end date: Wednesday 25 March
Time: 18:15 to 19:45
Location: Camden Collective
Price: £250
Topics
Revision of topics requested by the students (passato prossimo/imperfetto)
Health and life style
The body
Common illnesses, health and care professionals
Sport and healthy lifestyle
Work and professional environment
Future plans
Love stories and romance
Dating
Project: creative writing competition ‘una storia d’amore’
Grammar
Revision of pronouns
Formal imperative, future tense (regular and irregular verbs), verb ‘servire’, ‘andare’, ‘metterci’
The position of the pronoun with the formal imperative
Plural of nouns in –tore and –ista
The comparative and superlative of ‘buono’ and ‘bene’
Bisogna+infinitive
Stare per + infinitive
The pronouns ‘la’ and ‘le’
The if clause with future
Learning outcomes (what you will be able to do by the end of the course):
Giving advice on health and wellbeing
Talking about your health and describing symptoms
Talking about your plans using the future tense
Making suppositions
Expressing conditions
Telling a story
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:
Balì M & Rizzo G (2014) Nuovo espresso 2: Libro dello studente e esercizi Florence: Alma Edizioni
Books you may find useful:
Ziglio L (2015) Nuovo espresso 2: 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
