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.

Book: Dieci A2 – Unit 4

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". 

Unit 4 titled "Stare beneath" focuses on health, physical wellbeing, medical situations, and daily habits.

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 facilitate 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:

Stare bene, health, physical wellbeing, medical situations, and daily habits. 

Grammar & Structures

Topic: Sport, physical health, and medication. 

·      Health and the Body: Parts of the body (including irregular plurals), physical symptoms, and general wellbeing.

·      Medical Emergencies and Care: visiting a pharmacy, being in an emergency room and describing minor health issues or injuries.

·      Advice and Remedies: home remedies and convential medicine (omeopatia si, omeopatia no), and spa/health treatments (terme e salute).

·      Lifestyle: Healthy habits and ways to stay in shape. 

Communication and functional goals

·      Describing Symptoms: how to explain what hurts or how you feel physically to a doctor or pharmacist, and asking for advice. 

·      Quantities: How to express amounts of medication or substances (indicare quantita).

Key Grammar Points

·     Imperative with Lei: Formation and irregular polite commands (e.g., prenda, vada).

·     Irregular Body Part Plurals: Nouns that change gender or form in the plural (e.g., il braccio/le braccia).

·     The particle "ne" to indicate a quantity

·     “Troppo” (Too much) adverb and adjective

·     Indefinite Pronouns: Using nessuno (no one/none).

·     Ordinal numbers from 11 onwards

Vocabulary & Functions

• How to descibe the human body and parts: head (la testa), back (la schiena), leg / legs (la gamba / le gambe), arm / arms (il braccio / le braccia), stomach (lo stomaco), throat (la gola).
• How to communicate symptoms: having fever (avere la febbre), feeling pain (avera mal di, mal di testa, mal di schiena), having a cold (raffreddore), having a cough (tosse), health (salute), wellbeing (benessere).
• How to express fitness and action verbs: moving (muoversi), working out and training (allenarsi), staying in shape (stare in forma), resting (riposare).

Videocorso: Unit 4 includes a dedicated video episode following the ongoing sitcom narrative of the course.

Outcomes:

·      Give formal instructions and orders

·      Indicate the advantages and disadvantages of a sport

·      Seek advice from a pharmacist or doctor

·      Discuss gym activities, exercising, and daily habits to stay in shape.

·      Describe health: Talk about personal health and physical wellbeing.

·      Identify body parts: name and locate parts of the human body.

·      Receive medical advice: Understand instructions and prescriptions from a health professional.

·      Ask for assistance at the emergency room

What materials should students bring?

Dieci A2, a notebook and a pen

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

Course Breakdown

Dieci Resource: Introductory texts/audio from the start of Unit 5; contextualise the grammar using the textbook's multimedia and guided conversation.

·      Week 1: 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 3 Dieci A2:

·      Week 2: Introduction to body parts

Goal: Introduce vocaulory for parts of the human body and basic physical wellness.

Content: Labelling body parts and talking about physcial condition (how to describe pain and sickness in simple terms)

·      Week 3: Formal imperative for giving advice

Goal: Master the formal imperative (imperativo formale) to give health advice.

Content: Conjugating regular and common irregular verbs in the polite Lei form (e.g. prenda, riposi and beva).

·      Week 4: At the pharmacy

Goal: Navigate a real-life interaction at an Italian pharmacy 

Content: Asking for recommendations, buying over-the-counter medicine, and wellness products.

·      Week 5: The partitive pronoun "ne" and quantities

Goal: Introduce or review the partitive particale ne when talking about medicines or food.

Content: Expressing "some of it / some of them (e.g. quante ne prendo? Ne prenda due).

·      Week 6: Emergency

Goal: Learn emergency vocabulatory and consolidate the lesson. 

Content: Going to the emergency room (pronto soccorso). 

·      Week 7 and 8:  Review and consolidation of all skills from Unit 4

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).