L3-Third Language (Italian) - 2 3223-AMMS-L3-IT-2

The course focuses on basic grammatical structures of the Italian language, as well as expressions and the most commonly used vocabulary related to areas of life closest to the participants (e.g., basic information about themselves and their family, shopping, geography of their region, employment). As a result of participating in the course, students will be able to grasp the main meaning of statements in short, clear, simple communications, announcements, advertisements, brochures, menus, timetables, and simple personal letters. As for active skills, they will be able to communicate in simple and routine situations requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar topics. They will handle simple social situations, even if they cannot understand everything and may not yet be able to sustain a conversation independently. The language tools they acquire will allow them to describe their family and other people, living conditions, education, as well as their current and recent work with simple concepts. The acquired competence in written text production will enable participants to write a short, simple note and record a message regarding urgent needs, as well as write personal letters such as thank-you notes, emails, and text messages.

Topics:
16. Partial article, pronoun ci.
17. Holidays and travels.
18. Past tense and absolute superlatives; double negation.
19. Describing past travels.
20. Narrative in the past tense.
21. Tastes of Italy: cuisine, grocery shopping.
22. Seasons, quantifiers, and complements pronouns.
23. Describing eating preferences and habits.
24. Daily life: weekdays and holidays.
25. Reflexive verbs, time expressions, adverbs of frequency, idioms with the verb fare.
26. Family: describing family members.
27. Talking about movies.
28. Describing people.
29. Past tense imperfetto; Perfect Vs imperfect opposition.
30. Narrative in the past tense.