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 3

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". 

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:

Relationships, emotions, and life events. It focuses on talking about people who are important to you; expressing affection, falling in love, getting married, and breakups (vocabulary like innamorarsi,  mettersi insieme, frequentarsi, fidanzarsi,  sposarsi, separarsi, divorziare).

Grammar & Structures

Topic: Structuring stories and recalling specific memories.

·      Passato Prossimo vs. Imperfetto: The core of the unit teaches when to use the imperfetto (descriptions, habits, ongoing past actions) and the passato prossimo (completed actions, specific events).

·      Time expressions like un certo punto (at a certain point), prima, poi, improvvisamente (suddenly), and mentre (while)

·      Indirect Object Pronouns: Words like mi, ti, gli/le, ci, vi, gli.

·      The adverb “ecco” with direct pronouns

Vocabulary & Functions

• Relationships & Affection: Verbs and phrases to express affection, differentiate between amare and volere bene, and discuss important people in your life.
• Time Expressions: Phrases to narrate a sequence of past events (e.g., a un certo punto, prima, poi, all'improvviso).

Videocorso: Unit 3 includes a dedicated video episode following the ongoing sitcom narrative of the course.

Learning outcomes:

Talk about past habits and events and relationships; express enthusiasm, amazement, displeasure.

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

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 2 Dieci A2:

Week 2,3,4,5,6,7:

Dieci Resource: Introductory texts/audio from the start of Unit 3; contextualise the grammar using the textbook's multimedia and guided conversation.

·      The Battle of Tenses (Imperfetto vs. Passato Prossimo).

Goal: Master when to use which past tense; content: contrast ongoing/descriptive actions (Imperfetto) with specific, completed events (Passato Prossimo).

Practice: Sequencing words like mentre (while) and durante (during)

·      Indirect Pronouns

·      Master tricky past-tense auxiliaries and pronouns: agreement between the past participle and the direct pronouns

·      Nuance: Differentiating between amare (romantic love) and volere bene (affection for friends/family) & key words unit 3 (innamorarsi,  mettersi insieme, frequentarsi, fidanzarsi,  sposarsi, separarsi, divorziare).

Week 8:

Synthesis & Review

Goal: Consolidate all skills from Unit 3.

Content: Speaking workshop where students present a short story about an important person in their life ("Una persona che conta").

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).