Italian Language and Culture, Level 2 - Elementary.
Tutor: Roberta Bonfa
Date and time: Mondays, 6:30 - 8:00pm
From: Monday 6th October 2025
20 weekly meetings, 1.5 hours each
Price £345 (£315 concessions*)
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Detailed Description
This course is for those who have mastered the basics and are ready to expand their knowledge and skills. The emphasis is on speaking and understanding, but new grammatical structures will be learnt and reading and writing skills will be developed. A course book is used to allow you to work on your own and to form a framework for your learning, but this is generally agreed with the group. The course aims to give you more confidence, allowing you to express yourself more freely in everyday situations. You will be encouraged to work out your own strategy for learning and, within the framework of the syllabus, learn to use language structures and functions to suit your own needs - for example, travel, basic business/academic language, socialising…
The syllabus options will include some of the following topics and language structures in addition to the revision and consolidation of those already studied:
Everyday situations to be developed might include: Personal information • life styles and interest • family/social arrangements • Directions – Time Numbers/ Money • Travel/transport • food and drink/ buying and selling • Accommodation - hotel/lodgings/business • Holidays and leisure • Business
Grammar and functions revised are: gender • articles • present tense, one past tense and one future form of common regular and irregular verbs • negatives • questions • descriptions • adjectives and adverbs • personal pronouns • polite/familiar forms • prepositions • possessives •
New grammar and functions include: comparative/superlative forms • more adjectives and adverbs • present tense, another past tense and future form of less common regular and irregular verbs • modals • expressions using the subjunctive.
You will be given an insight into the history and culture of Italy within the framework of your language studies. You will be given the opportunity to pursue your own personal research into a topic of cultural interest containing some analysis or debate.
