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Tutored Intermediate 2 - Program, objectives, syllabus

In this tutored course you review, practice and reinforce how to better express your opinions, understand more complex sentences, use different kinds of past, write different kinds of letters, use the future, the conditional, the imperative, pronouns and idiomatic expressions, relate situations, read Italian newspapers, watch Italian videos and visit some recommended Italian websites.

 

Upon successful completion of the Intermediate 2 you should be able to "...understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar..." start to "understand most TV news and current affairs programs." start to "understand the majority of films in standard language... interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible and take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining your views... present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to your field of interest..." (standard definition taken from the Common European Framework Self-Evaluation).

 

This course is for students who have completed the Intermediate 1 Tutored Course, or who have already studied Italian and are ready to start at Intermediate 2 level.

 

See below the Intermediate 2 syllabus for the 3 different types of Tutored Courses we offer:

 

Standard 8 Weeks
practice from 3 to 5 hours per week; includes 6 self-study lessons (complete one level), 4 assignments, audio/video classes, final exam

Intensive 6 Weeks
practice from 6 to 10 hours per week; includes 12 self-study lessons, 4 assignments, audio/video classes, final exam (in this format you complete both levels: intermediate 1 and intermediate 2)		 Extended 12 Weeks
practice from 3 to 5 hours per week; includes 10 self-study lessons (complete one level), 6 assignments, audio/video classes, final exam
  • Session 1:
    Introduction.
    Sing in Italian (listening and pronunciation exercise), review the basic-intermediate structures of the Italian language.
    Assignment.
  • Session 2:
    Learn about the Italian monastic tradition, Santa Scolastica and national parks. Learn how to narrate and congratulate someone. Relative pronouns; pronouns after a preposition; how to narrate (part 2): "trapassato prossimo".
    Intermediate lesson 7.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 3:
    Learn about Italian theatre, Pulcinella and Naples. Learn to express preferences. The conditional (present and past conditional); special construction: conditional of "dovere, volere, potere" + infinitive. Idiomatic expressions.
    Intermediate lesson 8.
    Assignment.
  • Session 4:
    Learn about Italian literature, Pirandello and Lipari islands. Learn to express yourself in a concise way. Idiomatic expressions. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns; impersonal construction.
    Intermediate lesson 9.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 5:
    Learn about Italian history, Eleonora d'Arborea and Tharros (Sardinia). Learn to write a letter. Learn to give commands or suggestions. Difference between written and spoken Italian. Imperative.
    Intermediate lesson 10.
    Assignment.
  • Session 6:
    Learn about Colombo and San Fruttuoso (Liguria).
    Learn to make plans. Reciprocal construction; other particular constructions; special construction (stare + gerundio); adverbs.
    Intermediate lesson 11.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 7:
    Learn about true friendship.
    Use of pronouns, use of verbs.
    Intermediate lesson 12.
    Assignment.
  • Session 8:
    Revision.
    Final exam.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 1:
    Introduction.
    Sing in Italian (listening and pronunciation exercise), thinking about traveling in Italy.
    Learn about Italian music, Opera, Rossini and Milano.
    Reinforce the basic language structures and get ready for the Intermediate level.
    Introduce yourself and create your identikit, use more complex sentences.
    Intermediate lesson 1.
    Intermediate lesson 2.
    Assignment.
  • Session 2:
    Learn about italian comics, Hugo Pratt and Venice.
    What to do if you don't feel well, the famous Mediterranean diet, tell about yourself with reflexive verbs.
    Learn about Italian cinema, Fellini and Bologna.
    Speak Italian with more refined sentences and pronouns, use the future.
    Intermediate lesson 3.
    Intermediate lesson 4.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 3:
    Learn about Italian design/fashion, Leonardo and Florence.
    Express what you like or dislike, create more complex and refined sentences with indirect pronouns.
    Learn about Italian art, Michelangelo and Rome.
    How to narrate, use of pronouns "ne" and "ci".
    Intermediate lesson 5.
    Intermediate lesson 6. Assignment.
  • Session 4:
    Learn about the Italian monastic tradition, Santa Scolastica and national parks. Learn how to narrate and congratulate someone. Relative pronouns; pronouns after a preposition; how to narrate (part 2): "trapassato prossimo".
    Learn about Italian theatre, Pulcinella and Naples. Learn to express preferences. The conditional (present and past conditional); special construction: conditional of "dovere, volere, potere" + infinitive. Idiomatic expressions.
    Intermediate lesson 7.
    Intermediate lesson 8.
    Assignment.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 5:
    Learn about Italian literature, Pirandello and Lipari islands. Learn to express yourself in a concise way. Idiomatic expressions. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns; impersonal construction.
    Learn about Italian history, Eleonora d'Arborea and Tharros (Sardinia). Learn to write a letter. Learn to give commands or suggestions. Difference between written and spoken Italian. Imperative.
    Intermediate lesson 9.
    Intermediate lesson 10.
    Assignment.
  • Session 6:
    Learn about Colombo and San Fruttuoso (Liguria).
    Learn to make plans. Reciprocal construction; other particular constructions; special construction (stare + gerundio); adverbs.
    Learn about true friendship.
    Use of pronouns, use of verbs.
    Intermediate lesson 11.
    Intermediate lesson 12.
    Revision.
    Final exam.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 1:
    Introduction.
    Sing in Italian (listening and pronunciation exercise), review the basic-intermediate structures of the Italian language.
    Assignment.
  • Session 2:
    Learn about the Italian monastic tradition, Santa Scolastica and national parks. Learn how to narrate and congratulate someone. Relative pronouns; pronouns after a preposition; how to narrate (part 2): "trapassato prossimo".
    Intermediate lesson 7.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 3:
    Learn about Italian theatre, Pulcinella and Naples. Learn to express preferences. The conditional (present and past conditional); special construction: conditional of "dovere, volere, potere" + infinitive. Idiomatic expressions.
    Intermediate lesson 8.
    Assignment.
  • Session 4:
    Learn about Italian literature, Pirandello and Lipari islands. Learn to express yourself in a concise way. Idiomatic expressions. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns; impersonal construction.
    Intermediate lesson 9.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 5:
    Learn about Italian history, Eleonora d'Arborea and Tharros (Sardinia).
    Learn to write a letter. Learn to give commands or suggestions. Difference between written and spoken Italian. Imperative.
    Intermediate lesson 10.
    Assignment.
  • Session 6:
    Learn about Colombo and San Fruttuoso (Liguria).
    Learn to make plans. Reciprocal construction; other particular constructions; special construction (stare + gerundio); adverbs.
    Intermediate lesson 11.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 7:
    Learn about true friendship.
    Use of pronouns, use of verbs.
    Intermediate lesson 12.
    Assignment.
  • Session 8:
    Beauty treatments of the ancient Romans.
    Punctuation
    relative pronouns
    impersonal construction
    Revision lesson 17. Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 9:
    The ancient Romans and spas.
    Verb revision: imperfetto. Verb revision: trapassato prossimo. Structure of complex texts.
    Revision lesson 18.
    Assignment.
  • Session 10:
    Political and social life of the ancient Romans.
    Verb revision: imperative. Verb revision: conditional - present and past. Use of the conditional to express future in the past.
    Revision lesson 19. Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.
  • Session 11:
    Religion of the ancient Romans.
    Special constructions - stare + gerundio, stare per + infinitive, present or imperfetto + da + tempo. Reciprocal construction. Collocations and idiomatic expressions.
    Revision lesson 20.
    Assignment
  • Session 12:
    Revision.
    Final exam.
    Fixed-schedule Audio-Video Group Class.

 

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