Week 1 (September 3, 5)
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.
Week 2 (Sept. 10, 12)
Primi contatti (cont.)
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 3 (Sept. 17, 19)
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.
September 19 TEST 1
Week 4 (Sept. 24, 26)
Buon appetito! (cont.)
Getting someone’s attention, asking for the bill, thanking someone, asking for price.
Grammar: definite and indefinite articles. Cardinal numbers from 20 to100.
Week 5 (October 1, 3)
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.
Week 6 (Oct. 8, 10)
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.
October 10 TEST 2
Week 7 (Oct. 15, 17)
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
Week 8 (Oct. 22, 24)
In albergo
Understanding hotel brochures, describing one’s favorite hotel, describing a room. Talking about one’s holiday activities.
Grammar: present tense. Modal verbs dovere, potere and volere. Adverbs: bene and male.
Week 9 (Oct. 29, 31)
Midterm review
October 31 MIDTERM EXAM
Week 10 (November 5, 7)
In albergo (cont.)
Asking for and giving timetable information, talking about one’s holiday activities.
Grammar: prepositions: a (+ definite article) + time. Compound prepositions
Week 11 (Nov. 12, 14)
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.
Week 12 (Nov. 19, 21 )
Un fine settimana (cont.)
Specifying when a past event took place. Asking for and providing information on means of transport, prices and time.
Grammar: verbs taking essere as an auxiliary.
Ci vuole/Ci vogliono
November 21 TEST 3
Week 13 (Nov. 26, 28)
Vita quotidiana
Describing one’s work habits and working hours. Commenting on someone else’s lifestyle. Describing and asking about someone’s daily routine.
Grammar: present tense of reflexive verbs.
The date. Possessive adjectives: singular and plural forms of mio and tuo.
Week 14 (Dicember 3, 5)
December 3 Oral presentation
December 5 Final Review
December 10-14 Final Examination