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Italian Language and Culture, Level 4 - Upper Intermediate.

Tutor: Roberta Bonfa
Date and time: Mondays, 1:00 - 2:30pm
From: Monday 6th October 2025

20 weekly meetings, 1.5 hours each

Price £345 (£315 concessions*)

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Detailed Description

A course for those who have recently completed an intermediate or Stage 3 class but are not quite ready for an advanced course.  You will acquire the skills to deal more confidently with given topic areas and to express opinions.  The emphasis is on speaking and understanding, but new grammatical structures will be learned and reading and writing skills will be developed further. 

The post intermediate class aims to revise and consolidate structures learned at intermediate level, to broaden vocabulary and give you extra confidence.  You will be encouraged to develop your learning strategies and, within the framework of the syllabus, develop language structures and functions for your own perceived needs and interests.  The syllabus may include the following topics and language structures, but you will be given the opportunity to develop and discuss your own language learning interests and needs: 

Topic areas:	personal interests  •  tastes  •  the media (press) • socializing / relationships •  travel and language  •  regions • work • current affairs • social problems • introduction to politics…
Grammar functions & skills:	Consolidation of complex sentence structures, more literary tenses • passives • subjunctive forms • simple indirect discourse• idea of register • expressing opinions and views •  describing feelings and reactions  •  simple note-taking • skimming/scanning techniques • letter/ email writing •  etc.

There will be a strong cultural element in this course which may include the literature, song, art, history, geography and institutions of the country.