This is a module designed for students who completed Italian Beginners A1 Part 2 or who have studied Italian language for around 40 hours or have completed some further study towards a GCSE. This module aims to provide you with a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written skills, sufficient for coping with everyday situations with predictable content and simple survival needs.

This module is the third part of the preparation for CEFR A1.

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

This course completes the A1 course book and covers chapters 7-10. The following topics will be covered:

• Andiamo in vacanza: (talking about events in the past, talking about the weather)
• Sapori d’Italia (buying food and drink in shops, cooking, talking about diets and tastes)
• Vita quotidiana (talking about daily routine)
• La famiglia (talking about family members, describing people).

Nuovo Espresso 1, 2014, L. Ziglio and G. Rizzo, Alma Edizioni, Firenze

To prepare A1:

Livello A1-A2 Modulo adulti all'estero + CD (new ed.), 2010, Quaderni CILS, Guerra Edizioni Guru.