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Italian Evening Class

Is this course for you?

Yes if you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced level Italian and looking for a great language course that's timetabled for the afternoon and fits in beautifully with a chance to visit all the wonderful sights, museums and churches of Venice - what more could you possibly want?

• 1 to 8 weeks language course duration
• Open to 16+ age group
• 20 group lessons per week
• Max. 15 people per class
• Offered mid May to late October each year.
• A cheaper afternoon course, based on the same format as the Standard course
• Only 3 levels offered: Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced
• Lessons held 16:30hrs to18:30hrs

For Prices & Start Dates: Refer to the CESA Course Finder
Select: Venice / Evening Course / Language level / Start date

Italian Course Methodology: 

LEVEL ONE    Beginners
This course addresses beginner students who have no knowledge of the Italian language. At the end of the course, students will be able to communicate in every day’s most frequent situations, using basic vocabulary and grammar.

Topic Division
Grammar  25%
Vocabolario  25%
Oral comprehension and expression  30%
Written comprehension and expression   20%

Grammar
Definitive and indefinite articles
Simple present tense (regular verbs, three conjugations –are –ere –ire)
Main irregular verbs: essere, avere, andare, fare, bere, rimanere, venire, uscire.
Verbs Dovere (to have to, to must) Potere (to can, to be able to) Volere (to want).
Use of “ci” (there)
Simple past (perfect tense)
Possessive adjectives and pronouns
Use of the verb Piacere (to like)
Reflexive pronouns
Introduction to pronouns direct object
Use of the simple prepositions and prepositions with article
Imperative
Conjunctions e (and) ma (but) mentre (while) quando (when) perchè (why, because)

Communicative areas
Identification: name, nationality..., Introducing oneself, Habits
Asking and answering information
Offering something, inviting someone, accepting, refusing
Situations: in class, at the bar, the station, at the restaurant, in a store, a language school, in hotel.
Talking about family, Describing people and items, telling a  brief story in the past
Asking for explanations about words or linguistic questions
Expressing preferences; Expressing pleasure and unpleasure

Oral comprehension
Dialogues ; Messages (listening to a message at the answering machine, to the radio); Interviews (radio, TV); Video (movies, TV); Advertisments; Songs;

Written comprehension
Timetables; Menu; Memorandum; Post cards and letters to friends; Diary; Recipies; Short biographies; Short announcements; Advertisments; Comics; Short instructions; Catalogues; Fieldtrip shedules or cultural programs

Oral expression and vocabulary
Readings concerning:
Studying and learning a foreign language
Every-day-life situations
Cities and means of transportation
Space, forms, dimensions, quantity
Time
Written expression
Fill in an enrollment form; writing a message; writing a post card; writing a diary page; writing a letter in familiar way

LEVEL THREE      Intermediate
This course aims at strengthening comprehension, communication and writing skills, by using advance grammar.

Topic Division
Grammar  20%
Vocabolario  20%
Oral comprehension and expression  30%
Written comprehension and expression   30%

Grammar
Rewiew of the main grammatical points of the prevoius levels
Tenses agreement (indicative mood)
Past perfect tense
Introduction to the subjuntive mood
Introduction to the conditional mood
Comparatives and superlatives
Informal/formal imperative with pronouns
Use “si” with impersonal verbs
Double object pronouns
Relative pronouns
Indefinite pronouns

Communicative areas
Telling facts, stories and experiences in the past; Describing places and people; Making comparisons and oppositions; Giving opinions; Expressing desires; Making suppositions
Espressing feelings; Recommening and advising; Convincing someone to do something
Asking for explanations concering words or linguistic questions

Oral comprehension
Dialogues (original), songs, phone calls,movies, advertisment, radio and Tv interviews

Written comprehension
Formal letters; Instructions; Stories; Reviews

Oral expression
Learning social life rules in conversations, phone calls, descriptions.

Written expression
Making attention to different text standards
Writing reviews

LEVEL FIVE    Advanced
It is ad advanced course that can be repeated by those who want to reach high fluency. The course investigates different aspects of the Italian language.

Topic Division
Grammar  15%
Vocabolario  20%
Oral comprehension and expression  30%
Written comprehension and expression  35%

Grammar
Tenses agreement, in particular with the subjunctive; complex sentences;  analyzing words; from direct to indirect speech; use of gerundio, infinitive and past participle.

Oral comprehension
The same materials of the previous level, with particular attention for regional pronunces and accents, dialects.

Oral expression
Particular attention to the sentence-building, rules of syntax, correct pronounce, analysis of an italian “standard” pronounce.

Written comprehension
The same activities of the previous level, plus readings of poems, announcement of pubblic agencies.

Written expression
Trying different styles; creative writings.

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