Italian Intermediate (A2)

Build on your Italian language skills and elevate your profucuency!

Countinue your exciting linguistic journey with interactive lessons and practical applications, ensuring a seamless transition to the next level of fluency.
NUOVO Espresso 2 is aimed at post-beginner students therefore, they can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

The course includes:

Activities to consolidate and develop oral comprehension and production.

This course is organised to be interactive, and a variety of engaging methods will be used including exercises, audio-visual aids, games, role playing to facilitates learning and opportunities for listening and speaking practice to make the experience more enjoyable and effective.

Objective:

 Practice overall listening comprehension with an informal dialogue and the consolidation of learned structures and vocabulary.

Theme:

Food and eating habits

Expressing needs and giving advice

Talking about health problems; describing symptoms; giving health advice and guidance

What materials should students bring?

Nuovo Espresso2, (abbeys.com.au or amazon.com), a notebook and a pen.

Course Breakdown:

Week 1 : Revision through a guided conversation and interactive activities aimed to use the vocabulary and grammatical structures studied during the previous units (from 1 to 5).

Week 2 : Unit 6

- Talking about food and eating habits; commenting on flavours; expressing an opinion.

- Vocabulary: adjectives to describe tastes

- Grammar: The verb to serve

Week 3:

- Expressing needs and giving advice

- Grammar: The informal imperative; the negative imperative; the position of the pronoun in the imperative

Week 4:

- Review key points from Unit 6 (grammar and vocabulary) through guided conversation, role-play, and videos.

- What dish do you cook well? Share a recipe.

- Some famous Italian festivals and food traditions

Week  5: Unit 7

- Talking about health problems; describing symptoms (vocabulary)

- Giving health advice and guidance

- Talking about your relationship with sport

- Grammar:

Imperative use review; the position of pronouns in the imperative

Regular and irregular comparatives; the comparative and superlative of “buono’ e “bene”

Week 6:

Review of the key points of unit 7 through guided conversation, interactive activities, role play, and videos.

Conversation topic: comparing the Australian and Italian healthcare systems. Advantages and disadvantages.

Week 7:

Guided conversation:

· How You Interact with Social Networks /  Internet vocabulary (unit 6)

· How to tell about a book or a movie (vocabulary)

· Videocorso unit 6

Week  8 :

· Talk about your experience learning a foreign language: give advice

· Videocorso unit 7

· Interactive group games

This outline provides an overview of what may be covered during the course; however, changes may occur based on various factors and the needs of the class.

Term Dates 

Term 3 runs on Friday 25 July to Friday 12 September 

Term 4 runs on Friday 17 October to Friday 5 December 

Parking Discount for Students

 Students who participate in this course will receive a 50% discount at Ridge Street Car Park. Simply speak to our team when you visit the Centre, and we’ll register your plate number in our system (please note you’ll need to register your plate each time you attend the course). This discount applies to courses held at the Centre during office hours (Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm).