Italian Level 5

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Italian Level 5

Course Description

Level 5 Classes: This course suits people who have recently completed Level 4, or those who already have a solid foundation in Italian. It will allow them to communicate quite confidently about themselves, their environment, their past, and their future plans. This level will help you communicate with greater confidence about topics that go beyond your immediate environment, and to formulate your opinion on certain topics

In Level 5, we work at the B1 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)*. 

Term duration: 9 x weekly classes, Wednesday evenings, 6:15pm to 8:30pm 

No class on Wednesday 28 October. Your final class will finish at 8:15pm

Communicative themes may cover: 

• Understanding (im)politeness and related cultural differences. 

• Accommodation: discussing new trends 

• Understanding documents about current and historical events.  

• Expressing one’s feelings about a place. 

• Talking/writing about cities - issues and developments. 

 

Key grammatical points covered may include: 

• Revisions from level 4 

• Simple conditional. E.g. Avrei una proposta da fare a tutti. 

• Passive form at the present. E.g. L' articolo è scritto dal giornalista. 

• Present subjunctive for feelings and opinions. E.g. Credo che sia una casa costosa. 

• Different use of ‘conoscere’ and ‘sapere’ at the present and past tenses. E.g. So che Marco è sposato ma non conosco sua moglie. 

• Direct and indirect object pronouns E.g. Hai dato il libro a Giovanni? Sì, gliel’ho dato. 

 CEFR levels indicated on our level descriptors are not a guarantee that you can take the associated Italian exam for this level. If you would like to take an external Italian exam, please speak to your tutor to discuss what they think would be most appropriate 

 See https://uealanguageprogramme.org/ for more information