Group Course – Syllabus

LEVEL	TOPICS and VOCABULARY	YOU WILL BE ABLE TO…	GRAMMAR	CULTURAL INSIGHTS
A1.1	• Personal information • Spare time and hobbies • At the restaurant / at the bar • Friends	• Communicate in Italian during the lesson • Greet and introduce yourself/someone in formal and informal contexts • Talk about activities and hobbies • Order in a restaurant	• Alphabet • Adjectives of nationality • indicative present tense for regular verbs and some irregular verbs • Nouns (number and gender) • Numbers and days • Definite and indefinite articles • Simple prepositions • Formal and informal communication • Interrogative pronouns • The verb piacere (to like) • Adverbs of frequency	• Italian greetings and proxemics • Italian geography: cities and population • Typical dining options and menu in Italy
A1.2	• Hotel • City • Holidays and travels	• Ask for and give information • Locate and describe places • Describe a room • Talk about past events • Ask and tell the time	• Adjectives • Compound prepositions • C’è / ci sono • Prepositions of place • Passato prossimo	• Tip and bill in Italy • Typical accommodation facilities in Italy
A1.3	• At the supermarket • Daily life • Family	• Do grocery shopping • Talk about typical products • Talk about the daily routine • Talk about family members and relatives	• Direct pronouns • Reflexive verbs • Adverbs of frequency • Possessive adjectives • Impersonal form	• Italian cuisine: do’s and don’ts • Italians’ Stereotypes • Italian National Holidays and typical gifts • The Italian family • Italian gestures
A2.1	• Shopping: Clothes and accessories • Childhood memories • Physical appearance and personality	• Describe and buy clothes • Talk about your likes and preferences • Talk about your memories and describe past events • Describe someone (physical appearance and personality) • Give advice	• Indirect pronouns • Imperfetto • Imperfetto vs. Passato prossimo (I) • Present conditional	• Colours’ meaning in Italy • Famous Italians • Famous events in Italy • Holidays: Italians’ habits
A2.2	• Activities and entertainment • Holidays and travels • Nutrition and eating habits	• Invite, accept and refuse • Make polite requests • Express surprise • Express needs and opinion	• Stare + gerundio • Imperfetto vs. Passato prossimo (II) • Relative pronouns • Imperative form (informal)	• Ferragosto • Traditional celebrations
A2.3	• Health and sickness • Job roles and responsibilities • Relationship and dating • Homes and buildings	• Talk about health problems and suggest healthy lifestyle tips • Talk about jobs, careers, and skills • Talk about the future • Tell and invite to share personal stories • Describe a house	• Imperative form (formal) • Future tense • Hypothetical sentence (I) • Stare per • Present subjunctive • Conjunctions	• Italian football teams • The employment situation in Italy • Il Galateo: The good manners • Typical Italian homes and interior design
B1.1	• Learning a foreign language • City life • Made in Italy	• Ask for an opinion • Make analogies • Complain • Describe a product	• Trapassato prossimo • Combined pronouns • Past conditional • Subjunctive review • Adverbs ending with -mente	• English words in the Italian language • Made in Italy: the most famous products
B1.2	• Traditional media and new media • Books and reading • Family changes	• Debate • Describe charts	• Imperfetto subjunctive • Reported speech I • Subjunctive with sebbene, nonostante, malgrado, benché	• Foreign communities in Italy • Masterpieces from Italian literature • The new Italian families
B1.3	• Festivities and presents • History • Discovering Italy • Contemporary Italian language	• Express disagreement • Give advice • Being ironic • Ask and give information about places • Make Auto evaluation	• Past conditional to express future in the past • Hypothetical sentence (II and III) • Gerundio and Infinito • Indirect questions and reported speech in the past II • Passive form with the verb andare • Subjunctive: Trapassato	• Festivities: customs and traditions in Italy • Italian historical figures • Regions and stereotypes • Italian environmental associations (FAI) • Italians’ common linguistic mistakes
B2.1	• School • Food and recipes	• Talk about memories • Express preferences • Describe procedures and give instructions	• Passato prossimo with double auxiliary • Pronominal verbs • Double relative pronouns • Futuro anteriore • Indefinite pronouns	• Education system in Italy • Some Italian recipes
B2.2	• Technology, social media, and news media • Jobs and interviews	• Give information • Make statistics • Report a past event • Talk about your job • Make formal request	• Time expressions • Reported speech III • Conditional to express uncertain facts • Relative superlative + subjunctive • Gerundio to express the cause and hypothesis	• Italian TV programmes
B2.3	• Feelings and emotions • Cinema	• Express your feelings • Talk about yourself and describe physical characteristics • Make a review • Criticize	• Possessive adjective: proprio • Pronominal verb: uscirsene • The contrary of nouns and adjectives • Purché/ Come se/ Senza che + Subjunctive • Fare + Infinito	• Italian cinema
B2.4	• At the museum • Sustainability	• Describe a picture/painting • Make wishes • Make evaluations and proposals	• Relative pronouns: il che, il cui • Adverbs and pronouns position • More functions of the Future tense	• Italian art • Sustainable Italian architecture
B2.5	• Italy’s peculiarities • Italian language	• Express doubts • Talk about cultural events • Make compliments • Arguing	• Gerundio: present and past tense • Expressions: A dirla tutta, sbrigarsela da soli, arrampicarsi sugli specchi • Homonyms • Subjunctive and comparatives • In modo che/ far sì che + Subjunctive • Comparative of equality: Tanto quanto • Colloquial expressions	• Italian geography: regions, province, capitals, seas… • Cultural events in Italy • Regional variants and dialects • Italian history
C1.1	• Becoming Italian • Contemporary literature	• Communicate with a colloquial register • Express complex opinions • Understand Latin expressions still in use • Make contradictions • Understand contemporary literature	• The superlative with arci-, stra-, super-, iper- • Consolidation of future tenses • Dislocation and subjunctive • Cleft sentence • Trapassato remoto	• How to have business with Italians • Italian literature
C1.2	• Football lovers • The Great Beauty	• Talk about sports • Recognize regional variants • Use sophisticated adjectives to describe persons, places, or things	• Verbi difettivi • Regional uses of essere, stare, avere, tenere • Consolidation present and past participle	• Italian Football • Italian art history and famous paintings
C1.3	• Food lovers • Music	• Better express regrets, make complains about past, present and future events • Learn incorrect forms used in the everyday Italian language • Use wordplays	• Express posteriority: Future VS Conditional • “Che” polivalente • Double relative pronouns : Chi, Quanto • False hypothetical sentences	• Gastronomy : products and secrets of the Italian cuisine • Discovering famous Italian singer-songwriters
C1.4	• Fashion style • At the theatre	• Idiomatic expressions • Describe people • Describe music genre • Emphasize	• Consolidation of Gerundio and infinito • The adverb Addirittura	• Italian Opera • Italian fashion stylists • Italian gestures and idioms
C1.5	• Italian women • Contemporary Italian Language	• Be redundant • Comment statistics • Use neologisms • Talk about your language learning	• “Non” pleonastico • Expressions: non so…ma anche; Non è che…però • Superlatives and idioms • Imperative and reported speech	• Understanding the status of women in Italy • New Italian words in the daily life
C2.1	• Around the world • Science	• Talk about the relation between your own country and the rest of the world • Learn new idiomatic expression • Summarize • Talk about science • Switch from oral to written texts	• Foreign loans • Suffix -filia /prefix pseudo- • The false negation • Analogies	• Foreign words in the Italian language • Famous Italian scientists and astronauts
C2.2	• Breaking news • Literature and poetry	• Recognize a fake news • Learn and use newspaper and social media language • Talk about literature	• Polysemy • Conditional: other uses • Imperfetto for storytelling • Web Neologisms	• Discovering Italian writers
C2.3	• Laughing out loud • At the Oscars	• Understand different senses of humour • Understand figurative meanings • Take notes	• Adverbs: pure; anzi • Linkers • Adjectives’ intensification	• L’Italiano medio • Stereotypes • Italian Masterpieces and movie genres • Italians’ sense of humour
C2.4	• Once upon a time: Fables and fairy tales • Laws	• Tell stories • Understand legal texts	• Nouns replication • La frase incidentale • Conjunctions: nonostante; malgrado • Subordinate implicite • Vowels pronunciation	• Italian stories • The Italian Constitution
C2.5	• Hospital and diseases • Language Vs Dialects	• Use euphemisms • Understand medical prescriptions • Describe your lifestyle and food habits • Understand different Italian regional accents	• Italian phrasal verbs • Double negation • Litotes • The suffix -fobia • Greek and Latin prefixes • Geo synonyms	• The Mediterranean Diet • Italian Hospital organization and wards • Italian dialects and regional accents • The difference between North and South Italy