Italian Intermediate (A2)

Countinue your exciting linguistic journey with interactive lessons and practical applications, ensuring a seamless transition to the next level of fluency.

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.

Prerequisite

To start an A2 Italian course, you must have completed A1 basic communication skills.

Essential A1 Grammar Checklist to Start A2:

 Present tense (regular/common irregulars) passato prossimo (with avere/essere), gender/number agreement, and definite/indefinite articles. Key areas to master include possessive adjectives, prepositions, basic reflexive verbs, and using c'è/ci sono. 

Transitioning into A2 Topics:
Once confident in the above, you will move into the imperfect tense (imperfetto), distinguishing between passato prossimo and imperfetto, using the particle ci, and expanded imperative forms. 

Objective:

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

Theme:

Talk about the past, describe physical appearance and personality.

Unit 2 of the Dieci A2 coursebook  is titled "Come eravamo" (How we were). It focuses on the past, childhood, and personal descriptions:

• Topic: Talking about childhood, personal history, and past habits.
• Vocabulary: Descriptions of personality and physical appearance (e.g., socievole, timido, biondi, ricci).
• Grammar: Primary focus on the Imperfetto (imperfect tense) to describe the past.
• Functions: Describing people and situations in the past, comparing "then" and "now". 

What materials should students bring?

Dieci A2, a notebook and a pen

Dieci A 2 Dieci A2 by ALMA Edizioni is a communicative Italian course designed for adult learners. It features 10, two-page lessons covering grammar, vocabulary, and culture, complete with a sitcom-style video course, audio, and exercises. It focuses on practical, everyday language to build fluency. 

The book is ideal for building confidence in everyday situations, focusing on "living and thinking in Italian". 

Note: We recommend purchasing the textbook once the class is confirmed to be running by the Centre.

Course Breakdown

Week 1 and 2 :

Revision through a guided conversation and interactive activities aimed to use the vocabulary and grammatical structures studied during the previous units with a special focus on unit 1 Dieci A2:

Week 3,4,5, 6, 7:

Unit 2:

- Talk about the past, describe physical appearance and personality.

- Grammar: the imperfect; the comparative of majority, equality, minority; conjunctions: either... that, or... or, neither...nor

- Communication: use time expressions

Week  8 :

- Interactive group games, videos

Term Dates 

Term 1 runs from Friday 6 February to Friday 27 March 

Term 2 runs from Friday 24 April to Friday 26 June (10 week course)

Term 3 runs from Friday 24 July  to Friday 11 September 

Term 4 runs from Friday 16 October to Friday 4 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).