Language Immersion Course Italian 1 (UE)Back
|Semester of degree program||Semester 1|
|Mode of delivery||Presence- and Telecourse|
|Language of instruction||English|
Upon the successful completion of the Language Immersion Course Italian 1, students will acquire the following competencies regarding the Italian language:
- introduce themselves and others
- understand spoken greetings and introductions
- ask questions about personal details and family-related topics, geographical location, directions and spelling
- fill out personal details in forms
- interact on topics of interest
- read and understand short descriptions about people
- order and pay in a café
- describe their accommodation
- tell the time and talk about their daily routines
- talk about relatives and family
This is a beginners' course for students with little or no prior Italian language knowledge (at CEF level A1). The following language topics will be covered in this module:
- Greetings and self-introduction
- Talking about myself, my family and my immediate surroundings (studies, work, home)
- Asking and answering questions about personal details and family-related topics
- Basic vocabulary, phrases, grammar structures, and connecting words
- The time and calendar
- Simple sentence structure, forming questions (interrogative pronouns) and statements, negation
- Local and temporal prepositions
- Personal and possessive pronouns
- Position of adverbs
- Present and passato prossimo
- Ordinal numbers
- Talking about preferences ("mi piace"/"mi piacciono")
- Talking about the weather ("piove")
Guastalla, C. & Naddeo, G. M. (2010). Domani 1: Corso di lingua e cultura italiana (A1). Firenze: Alma Edizioni
Lombardo, D., Nosengo, L., & Sanguineti, A. M. (2005). L'italiano con la pubblicità: Livello elementare. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni.
McIntosh, C. (1992). Oxford Italian Grammar and Verbs. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Mezzadri, M. (2001). Grammatica essenziale della lingua italiana con esercizi: Livello elementare e intermedio. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni.
Oxford Dictionaries (ed.) (2009). Oxford Essential Italian Dictionary. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Petri, A., Laneri, M., & Bernardoni, A. (2015). Grammatica di base dell'italiano. Barcelona: Casa delle Lingue.
PONS (ed.) (2014). PONS Verben auf einen Blick Italienisch. Stuttgart: PONS.
Ziglio, L. & Rizzo, G. (2015). Nuovo Espresso 1 (A1). Italian edition. Firenze: Alma Edizioni.
- Lecture and presentation
- Group and pair work
- Role plays
- Learning games
- Individual exercises
- Blended learning
Integrated module exam (immanent examination character):
- Class preparation/homework 20%
- Class participation 20%
- Final examination (examination includes reading and listening comprehension, speaking and writing) 60%