Italian Level 1

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Respond to and produce a basic range of spoken language in very familiar contexts
• Respond to and produce simple written texts
• Demonstrate the relevant level of intercultural awareness in your handling of everyday social interactions in Italian and your use of language
• Engage with a basic range of digital language-learning tools to support your production

In this module, you will cover the following linguistic structures:

• Present tense
• Present perfect tense
• Articles
• Regular and irregular verbs
• Negatives
• Possessive adjectives
• Prepositions and articulated prepositions
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Modal and reflexive verbs
• Comparative forms
• Introduction to direct and indirect object pronouns
• Impersonal verbs and expressions

Topics include:

• Making contact
• Everyday objects
• Eating and drinking
• Leisure
• The home
• Sickness and health
• Everyday life
• In the town
• Italian culture, art and history

In line with MFL communicative and active learning methodology, in-class activities cover all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and include: pair work and group work (dialogue practice, information gap exercises, discussion); individual tasks; discovery and formulation of rules; critical evaluation of texts, audio and video material. Homework tasks give you the opportunity to revise and consolidate knowledge and skills. This approach not only ensures you engage with a wide range of tasks, but also supports different learning styles.

Your coursework will be marked and returned within two weeks. Rubrics and revision guidance (how-to guides) will be included as needed with each coursework. You will receive detailed feedback alongside suggestions for improvement and an overall percentage showing your provisional grade for that assessment.

• Coursework (20%): Four skills task-based: listening, guided speaking, reading and writing (approx. 100 words).
• Examination (20%): In-class test, on the virtual learning environment (bring your own device). This 1-hour test will take place at the end of autumn term. It will include a grammar/lexicon quiz, a reading comprehension and a writing task (100-120 words).
• Coursework (20%): Integrated skills, task-based listening, speaking and writing (approx. 180 words).
• Examination (20%): Comprehension and questions. Grammatical structures. Composition (180 words).
• Practical (20%): 10-minute oral exam: including graded, open conversation on topics seen in class and describing an image.

• 7.5 ECTS points awarded on successful completion of the module.
• Available to take for credit towards your degree where your department allows. Also available for extra-credit.
• You must be prepared to attend all classes and and undertake approximately 3 hours of private study each week in addition to the assessment.

Coursebook

Title: Nuovo Espresso : Libro studente 1

ISBN: 9788861823181

Publisher: Alma Edizioni

Publication Date: 2014

NB The Italian Bookshop offers a 10% discount to Imperial Horizons students.