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Method <\/span><\/strong><\/em>The language courses are taught in Italian and follow a\u00a0communicative approach<\/strong>. While grammar is introduced and learned, the emphasis is mostly on\u00a0speaking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Levels\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
BEGINNER<\/strong><\/p>\n
Basic Italian 1<\/strong>\u00a0Communicative goals include greetings and introducing oneself, asking for basic information, talking about professions, expressing likes and dislikes. The grammatical structures include present tense of regular verbs and piacere, articles, nouns, possessive adjectives, demonstrative pronouns, and prepositions.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 1 \u2013 4.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
Basic Italian 2<\/strong>\u00a0Communicative goals include describing a city, following and giving street directions, asking and telling time, asking for info on accommodation, talk about past actions, and understand descriptions of past events. The grammatical structures include present tense of some irregular and modal verbs, past tense, frequent irregular past participles, noun-adjective agreement, compound prepositions.\u00a0New Italian Espresso (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 5 \u2013 7<\/em><\/p>\n
Basic Italian 3\u00a0<\/strong>Communicative goals include describing and asking about one\u2019s work routine, saying the date, talking about national holidays, describing a family tree, talking about one\u2019s eating habits, understanding recipe\u2019s instructions, talking about future actions, shopping for clothes and shoes. The grammatical structures include present and past tense of reflexive verbs, future tense, conditional; possessive adjectives (family), partitive \u201cne\u201d, direct and indirect pronouns.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 8 \u2013 11.<\/em><\/p>\n
Basic Italian Review<\/strong>\u00a0Basic conversation is combined with a review of the grammar learned in Basic Italian 1, 2 & 3.<\/p>\n
INTERMEDIATE<\/strong><\/p>\n
Intermediate Italian 1<\/strong>\u00a0Communicative goals include: describing past actions that occurred repeatedly, talking about one\u2019s childhood, expressing wishes, understanding and giving orders. The grammatical structures include: imperfetto tense and past tense vs. imperfetto, progressive form (stare + gerund), regular and irregular imperatives, comparatives, superlatives, direct and indirect pronouns.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Beginner & Pre-Intermediate) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 12\u201315<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Intermediate Italian 2<\/strong>\u00a0Communicative goals include: express hope, form hypotheses; invite someone to do something together; express one\u2019s opinion; complain; express a preference; express emotions or moods; express a condition. The grammatical structures include: present and past subjunctives; past perfect; combined pronouns; past conditional; agreement of moods.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Intermediate & Advanced) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 5\u20138.<\/em><\/p>\n
ADVANCED<\/strong><\/p>\n
Advanced Italian 1 A<\/strong>\u00a0Communicative goals include: Explain something; ask for an explanation; report another person\u2019s words; express interest in something; give a suggestion; point out the advantages and disadvantages of a given condition; formulate hypotheses; express irony. The grammatical structures include: imperfect subjunctive; indirect\/reported speech; passive voice; passato remoto and presente storico; subjucnctive + conjunctions; impersonal form of a reflexive verb; past conditional as future in the past; if clause (2nd type): possibility.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Intermediate & Advanced)\u00a0 Alma Edizioni. Chapters 9\u201312.<\/em><\/p>\n
Advanced Italian 1\u00a0B\u00a0<\/strong>Communicative goals include: narrate the life of a historical character; narrate a trip; ask an indirect question; report what others said; express disappointment; point out natural beauty of a place; express hypothesis in the past; reflect on one\u2019s own learning. The grammatical structures include: modal and temporal gerund; third person plural as impersonal form; indirect speech in the past; indirect question; subjunctive trapassato; if clause (3rd type\u2013in the past); past gerund, past infinite.
\nNew Italian Espresso (Intermediate & Advanced) Alma Edizioni. Chapters 13\u201315.<\/em><\/p>\n
Advanced Italian 2\u00a0<\/strong>This is an advanced course for students who have reached a high level of proficiency in Italian. This class will meet to read and discuss articles selected by the instructor. Students will have opportunities to apply their knowledge of the Italian language to literature and cultural and social topics.<\/p>\n
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TEXTBOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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New Italian Espresso<\/strong>\u00a0Beginner & Pre-Intermediate<\/strong>\u00a0Textbook (for English speakers, Alma Edizioni<\/p>\n
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New Italian Espresso<\/strong>\u00a0Intermediate & Advanced<\/strong>\u00a0 Textbook for English speakers, Alma Edizioni<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s Go to Italy!\u00a0<\/strong>Beginner Conversation (Preparation for a trip to Italy)<\/p>\n
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OUR INSTRUCTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n
Our instructors are all native Italian speakers<\/strong> and hold degrees from Italian universities. They are qualified and passionate<\/strong> and they strive to expose students not only to the Italian language<\/strong> but also to the rich diversity of Italian culture and tradition<\/strong>. Meet them in the picture gallery below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Giovanna Brunetti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna-Maria Desprini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davide Di Rienzi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Silvia Dipierdomenico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Giacomo Frazzetta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Viviana Pezzera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roberto Ranieri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agnese Scaturro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michele Scotto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Giuseppina Silvestri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicoletta Tinozzi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caterina Venturini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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