BEGINNER LEVEL
Grammar
• Definitive and indefinite articles
• Simple present tense (regular verbs, three conjugations –are –ere –ire)
• 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) perché (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); Advertisements; Songs;
Written comprehension
• Timetables; Menu; Memorandum; Post cards and letters to friends; Diary; Recipes; Short biographies; Short announcements; Advertisements; Comics; Short instructions; Catalogues; Fieldtrip schedules 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 enrolment form; writing a message; writing a post card; writing a diary page; writing a letter in familiar way.
BEGINNER LEVEL
The students will be expected to come to all classes prepared to actively partecipate in oral and written work. Attendance for this class is absolutely mandatory. Absences will lower the final grade.
• 30% Class performance (participation and attendance). Class will involve much student-student and student-instructor interaction in more open-ended conversation. The quality of interaction will have a significant effect on the course grade.
• 20% Homework. (10 homeworks, written) Effort and enthusiasm will count as much as accuracy in preparation.
• 20% Mid-term exam (written);
• 20% Final exam (oral, final paper presentation);
• 10% Final working paper (written) during classes, students will produce some written documents concerning their own experience in Venice as a foreign student (e.g. small Venice guide for foreign students).
BEGINNER LEVEL
Textbook
Workbook of Istituto Venezia 2 (selection of authentic teaching materials and selected teaching materials from textbooks as Espresso, Chiaro, Domani)
Tutoring
Students can ask their teacher for any extra materials they may need to personalize their program further or to review some grammar points.
