At the end of this course, the students; 1) Can establish dialogue. 2) Learn basic grammar structures. 3) Develop basic reading and listening skills. 4) Learn the basic words and sentence structures to communicate at a basic level. 5) They can write non-academic articles and letters.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Yes(GMS236)
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
In this course, students learn Italian language reading, listening, speaking and writing skills at the next level of their learning in Italian II.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns, family and relative names, use of possessive adjectives with relative names
2nd Week
Italian food, ordering, use of "vorrei", use of "mi piace-mi piacciono", use of "quello bello"
3rd Week
Necessary tools and verbs for the kitchen, "volerci-metterci" verbs
4th Week
Reading: Italian table habits, pasta
5th Week
Story time, regular and irregular verbs, to talk about past habits
6th Week
Comparison of recent past and story time, use of auxiliary verbs in story time
7th Week
Past tense
8th Week
Midterm
9th Week
Reading: Italian Cinema
10th Week
Object, valuable pronouns, vocabulary knowledge about market shopping
11th Week
"what" use, joy, resentment, complaints to express
12th Week
The use of object, precious pronouns with compound tenses, the use of objects, pronouns with auxiliary verbs
13th Week
Expression of help, acceptance and rejection, store and container names
14th Week
General review
15th Week
Final Exam
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
1. Marin, T. & Magnelli, S. (2008). Nuovo Progetto Italiano, Corso Multimediale di Lingua e Civilta İtaliana, livelo elementare (A1-A2).