WHAT DO WE COVER IN EACH LEVEL?
Italian A1 Overview
(Levels 1-5) Textbook: Arrivederci 1- Greetings
- Alphabet & key sounds’ pronunciation
- Introducing yourself and others (name, age, nationality…)
- Asking basic questions to the teacher and classmates
- Formal vs. Informal
- Describing people and things (verb “essere”)
- Numbers
- Asking for phone numbers / emails
- Expressing possession and ask for things (verb “avere”)
- Masculine and feminine, singular and plural of adjectives and nouns
- In a café: how to order
- Expressing desires
- Asking and answering questions in the present tense (regular verbs -Are,-Ere)
- Revision of Level 1 contents
- Talking about work and professions
- Places of work
- Definite articles (singular and plural)
- Verb “Fare”
- Talking about free time & activities (regular verbs -Are, -Ere, -Ire)
- Expressing likes and dislikes (mi piace / mi piacciono…)
- Talking about hobbies
- Making suggestions
- Difference between Bene – Buono
- Booking a hotel room
- Making a complaint
- Asking for and giving the reason for something
- Revision of present tense; questions and answers
- Revision of regular & irregular verbs
- Describing a city and its monuments
- Asking for & giving directions (modal verb “Dovere”)
- Adverbs of place and location (the simple prepositions + articles).
- Talking about holidays
- Talking about means of transport
- Travel information
- Asking for and telling the time
- Modal verbs (“potere” and “volere”)
- Revision of present tense regular and irregular
- Writing a short biography
- Perfect tense (“Il passato prossimo”)
- Describing past events and experiences
- “Have you ever….?” and conversations using the past tense
- Direct object pronouns (lo,la,li,le)
- Talking about family relationships
- Describing your family
- Possessive adjectives
- A typical day (describing routines)
- Reflexive verbs
- Describing a day’s events
- Revision of both present & past tenses
- Doing the shopping
- Shops and Opening times
- Purchasing Food & Drinks
- Stating quantity (the partitive article & “ne”)
- Talking about Fashion and colours
- Direct object pronouns (mi,ti,ci,vi)
- Talking about the weather and the seasons
- Reflexive verbs in the past tense
- Travelling: how to rent a place /hire a car
- Constructions with “si”
- “Ci” : adverb of place
Italian A2 Overview
(Intermediate 1-5) Textbook: Arrivederci 2- Revision of key A1 topics
- Talking about travel
- Understanding adverts offering accommodation
- Hiring a car
- Describing houses and homes
- Adverbs ending in -mente
- Impersonal language: si impersonale
- Adverbs of quantity
- Making arrangements
- Talking about preferences and interests
- Expressing opinions about sport, culture, free time
- Present progressive: Stare + gerund
- The relative superlative
- Revision of Intermediate 1 topics
- Talking about holidays
- The perfect tense of “piacere”
- Talking about your childhood
- The imperfect tense- “l’imperfetto”
- The imperfect and perfect tenses- “imperfetto” e “passato prossimo” a confronto
- Talking about past events
- Adverbs of time
- Asking for information and permission
- Describing clothes and language for shopping
- Colours
- Making compliments – the adjective “bello”
- The demonstrative adjectives “questo” and “quello”
- The perfect tense with direct object pronouns
- The absolute superlative
- Revision of Intermediate 2 topics
- The perfect and imperfect tenses (revision)
- The parts of the body
- Describing people
- Giving advice
- Talking about health, aches, physical problems
- The imperative tense – informal
- The negative imperative -informal
- The verbs “sapere” and “potere”
- Expressing best wishes and congratulations
- Writing greeting cards
- Inviting people – accepting and declining an invitation
- Adjectives and indefinite pronouns
- The relative pronoun “che”
- Revision of Intermediate 3 topics
- Talking about quality of life (city / countryside)
- Talking about advantages and disadvantages
- Asking and offering help
- Revision of direct and indirect pronouns
- The imperative tense with pronouns – informal
- The negative imperative tense with pronouns -informal
- Talking about houses and housemates
- The imperative tense – formal and with pronouns
- The negative imperative tense- formal and with pronouns
- Talking about food and recipes
- Understanding menus, accepting and declining
- The conditional tense
- “Volerci” and “Metterci”
- Revision and consolidation
- Revision of Intermediate 4 topics
- Talking about mass media and news media
- Expressing opinions
- Commenting and reporting a news story
- The conditional tense (in more depth)
- The language of technology
- The perfect tense of modal verbs
- Talking about jobs – job interviews
- Describing your job and day to day tasks
- Your ideal job
- The construction “stare per + infinitive”
- Dependant clauses with “prima di + infinitive”
- Verb + preposition + infinitive
- Vocabulary extension – jobs, workload
- Revision and consolidation
- Revision of Intermediate 5 topics
- Talking about love and feelings
- Reading horoscopes, star signs
- Expressing uncertainty
- Talking about the future – the future tense
- Construction with “si + reflexive verbs”
- The verb “riuscire”
- Living together : complaints, prohibitions, requests
- The relative pronoun “cui” after a preposition
- Talking about neighbourhood relations
- Expressing surprise, disbelief, relief
- Talking about stereotypes
- Different countries and different customs
- “Ce l’ho – ce l’hai”
- Keeping a conversation alive
- Revision of key A1 and A2 topics
- Revision of Intermediate 6 topics
- Talking about nature and landscapes
- The environment: vocabulary revision and extension
- Comparatives (revision)
- Prepositions with means of transport
- The perfect tense with “ne”
- Revision of the perfect tense with pronouns
- Asking questions: revision of question words
- Verb + preposition + infinitive: “di” and “a”
- Geography quiz – Italy on the map
- Focus on conversation
- General revision and consolidation of all A2 topics
Italian B1 Overview
(Advanced 1-5) Textbook: Arrivederci 3- Revision of key A2 topics
- Talking about the 5 senses
- Revision of the parts of the body
- Expressing tastes, feelings
- Communication with gestures
- The verbs “sapere” and “conoscere” revision
- “Sapere” and “Conoscere” in the perfect and imperfect tense
- Revision of the perfect and imperfect tenses in general
- “Fare” or “Lasciare” + infinitive
- Expressing permissions, prohibitions
- Talking about volunteering and solidarity
- Revision of adverbs vs. adjectives
- “Buono vs. Bene” revision
- “Migliore vs. Meglio”.
- What’s “Made in Italy”- conversation topic
- General revision and consolidation
- Revision of Advanced 1 topics
- Overview of the structure of Italian verbs and tenses
- Talking about different generations
- “Trapassato prossimo” – past perfect in italian
- Telling a story using all perfect and imperfect tenses
- Connective language: “mentre, siccome, visto che, dato che..”
- Talking about family relations
- “Farcela” and “Andarsene” – verbi pronominali
- Conversation focus- quizzes and interviews
- Cultural changes in different decades
- General revision of pronouns: direct and indirect object pronouns
- “I pronomi combinati” (indirect + direct)
- “Ne” and “pronomi combinati”
- General revision and consolidation
- Revision of Advanced 2 topics
- Talk about happiness and quality of life
- Express opinions and feelings
- New tense “Il Congiuntivo Presente” (the Subjunctive)
- New tense “Il Congiuntivo Passato” (the Past Subjunctive)
- Talk about new inventions
- Revision of Advanced 3 topics
- Talk about Italy and beauty
- Talk about Italian art, fashion, cinema and design
- Revision of “Il Condizionale presente” (structure with “would”+ verb)
- Hot to ask something in a kind way
- How to express desire
- How to give advice
- New tense: “Il Condizionale Passato” (structure with “would have” + verb)
- Revision of “se” and “quando”
- Revision of Advanced 4 topics
- Talk about the history of the Italian language
- Modern Italian
- How to change words using suffixes (Nomi alterati)
- The indirect speech (Discorso Indiretto)
- Report something that was said by someone else
- Telling a joke
- Talk about Social Networks
- Talk about Tv
