WEEK 1 (May 21-24)
Primi contatti Greeting people upon arriving and leaving. Introducing oneself. Asking about pronunciation, spelling, meaning. Asking about someone’s place of origin (and answering). Grammar: present tense of essere, chiamarsi and first conjugation verbs (singular forms: io and tu). The alphabet. Asking how to say something in Italian. Giving one’s phone number, asking someone to repeat something. Grammar: Negation non. Prepositions di/in. Numbers from 0-20.
WEEK 2 (May 28-31)
Buon appetito! Ordering in a café and in a restaurant. Asking for things in a polite way. Pointing at close/far away objects. Grammar: plural and singular nouns; interrogatives: che cosa, che, quanto. Demonstrative (singular) pronouns: questo, quello. Getting someone’s attention, asking for the bill, thanking someone, asking for price. Grammar: definite and indefinite articles. Cardinal numbers from 20 to100.
TEST 1 (May 31)
WEEK 3 (June 4-7)
Io e gli altri: Introducing someone; describing people’s activities on a specific day of the week. Asking and giving personal details. Grammar: third singular person of regular and irregular verbs.
Tempo libero: Talking about free time and leisure activities. Grammar: Present tense: plural persons of first, second and third conjugation verbs. Complete conjugation of avere, andare, fare, essere, stare, bere, sapere. Piacere. Adverbs of frequency.
WEEK 4 (June 11-14)
In giro per l’Italia Describing a city, a neighborhood, a street. Asking and telling time. Grammar: present tense. Complete conjugation of dare, dire, rimanere, uscire and venire. C’è/Ci sono. Noun-adjective agreement
In albergo Talking about one’s holiday activities. Grammar: present tense. Modal verbs dovere, potere and volere. Adverbs: bene and male. Asking for and giving timetable information, talking about one’s holiday activities. Grammar: prepositions: a (+ definite article) + time. Compound prepositions.
TEST 2 ( June 14)
WEEK 5 (June 18-21)
Un fine settimana Describing a perfect weekend. Talking about past actions and understanding descriptions of past events. Grammar: past tense (passato prossimo). Forms and agreement of the past participle, irregular past participles
ORAL PRESENTATION (June 20): My experience in Italy - 3-5 minute presentation
Final review (June 21)
June 22 FINAL EXAM