Italian Level 1

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Italian Level 1

Course Description

Level 1 Classes: This course is suitable for people with no prior knowledge of the language, who would like to begin to communicate in Italian, particularly in a holiday context. By the end of the course, you will be able to formulate simple statements and questions in an everyday setting and understand the most basic written and spoken language. 

In Level 1, we work at the A1 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)*. 

Term duration:

 10 x weekly classes on Wednesday evenings, 6:15pm to 8:15pm. 

Communicative themes may include: 

• Providing and understanding basic personal information: Greeting people, introducing yourself and your friends and family, where you/they live, where you/they are from, work, nationality and languages spoken. Eliciting similar information from an Italian speaker. 

• Talking or writing about food: Shopping for food and saying how much you need. 

• Eating out, making sense of a menu to order food and drinks, asking for the bill and inviting someone to go out for a meal. 

• Being able to spell, count, and tell the time. 

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Key grammatical points covered may include: 

• Present tense 1 (regular and most common verbs. E.g. Lavoro in ufficio 

• Adjectives (1) E.g. Un pizza calda. 

• Formulating questions and negative sentences. E.g. Parli italiano? No, non parlo italiano. 

• Expressing belonging (1) E.g. mia sorella, mio fratello 

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