Where Pinocchio and his conscience "Grillo" (Jiminy Cricket), travel through Italy, meet very famous people and ask them what friendship is.

Objectives:

In the Intermediate Course you follow Pinocchio, the famous Italian puppet, while he travels through Italy, meets many renowned Italians (Fellini, Rossini, Michelangelo, Leonardo...) and asks them what friendship is.
You get to know more of Italian culture and you become familiar with Italian topics such as Opera, Art, Cinema and others. You learn how to express your opinions in a better way, understand more complex sentences, make comparisons, narrate a fact, write a letter, use the future and much more!

*The intermediate course draws inspiration from famous Italian characters. The dialogues between Pinocchio and the characters have been written with creative license.

Program:

• Lesson 1 Un viaggio in Italia
  (A trip to Italy.)
  Pinocchio decides to leave for a trip around Italy.
  Review the basic structures of Italian language. Revision; verbs.
  Activity: word-search and anagrams.

• Lesson 2 Pinocchio e Rossini a Milano
  (Pinocchio and Rossini in Milan.)
  Pinocchio begins his voyage through Italy.
  Learn to express yourself with more complex sentences and make comparisons. "Se, che, perché"; comparative and superlative.
  Activity: opera.

• Lesson 3 Pinocchio e Hugo Pratt a Venezia
  (Pinocchio and Pratt in Venice.)
  Learn to ask for assistance. Parts of the body. Reflexive verbs; irregular nouns; the partitive.
  Activity: comics.

• Lesson 4 Pinocchio e Fellini a Bologna
  (Pinocchio and Fellini in Bologna.)
  Learn to express doubt or make hypothesis. The future tense; direct object pronoun.
  Activity: cinema.

• Lesson 5 Pinocchio e Leonardo a Firenze
  (Pinocchio and Leonardo in Florence.)
  Learn to express pleasure, regret or make an apology. Indirect object pronoun; use of the verb "Piacere".
  Activity: fashion and design.

• Lesson 6 Pinocchio e Michelangelo a Roma
  (Pinocchio and Michelangelo in Rome.)
  Learn to narrate and express disapproval. How to narrate (part 1): "imperfetto"; pronouns "ne" and "ci".
  Activity: painting and sculpture.

• Lesson 7 Pinocchio e Santa Scolastica sul Monte Majella
  (Pinocchio and Saint Scolastica on Mount Majella.)
  Learn how to narrate and congratulate someone. Relative pronouns; pronouns after a preposition; how to narrate (part 2): "trapassato prossimo".
  Activity: religion.

• Lesson 8 Pinocchio e Pulcinella a Napoli
  (Pinocchio and Pulcinella in Naples.)
  Learn to express preferences. The conditional (present and past conditional); special construction: conditional of "dovere, volere, potere" + infinitive.
  Activity: theatre.

• Lesson 9 Pinocchio e Pirandello a Lipari
  (Pinocchio and Pirandello in Lipari.)
  Learn to express yourself in a concise way. Idiomatic expressions. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns; impersonal construction. Activity: literature and poetry.

• Lesson 10 Pinocchio e Eleonora d'Arborea a Tharros
  (Pinocchio and Eleonora d'Arborea in Tharros.)
  Learn to write a letter. Learn to give commands or suggestions. Difference between written and spoken Italian. Imperative.
  Activity: history.

• Lesson 11 Pinocchio e Cristoforo Colombo a San Fruttuoso
  (Pinocchio and Colombo in San Fruttuoso.)
  Learn to make plans. Reciprocal construction; other particular constructions; special construction (stare + gerundio); adverbs.
  Activity: the government system.

• Lesson 12 La vera amicizia
  (True friendship.)
  Review what you have learned in the Intermediate Course. Use of pronouns; use of verbs.
  Activity: the Italian anthem.