STANDARD ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSE PRE INTERMEDIATE - LEVEL B1
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- ITALIANO COME LINGUA STRANIERA - LIVELLO B1 PRE-INTERMEDIO
- Course code
- SIESC03 (AF:541736 AR:309330)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 0
- Subdivision
- B
- Degree level
- Corso di Perfezionamento
- Educational sector code
- NN
- Period
- 2nd Term
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
LANGUAGE SKILLS – Level B1
COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
-The learner acquires knowledge about how to express complaints and disbelief.
-They are able to argue a simple idea or choice and convince someone to do or not do something.
-They develop sufficient conversational skills, learning how to communicate their opinions on facts, attitudes, and others' statements.
-They know how to request attention, take the floor, and reassure the interlocutor about the receipt of information.
-They gain familiarity with reading and writing, learning how to describe objects, actions, and people from different perspectives, how to summarize, and how to place events within a timeline; they also learn how to recognize simple rhetorical figures.
-Finally, they are able to compare Italian with their mother tongue and formulate hypotheses about how the language works.
UNDERSTANDING AND PRODUCTION OF ORAL AND WRITTEN TEXTS
-Textually, the learner acquires knowledge about how to produce informal texts of medium complexity and to understand simple bureaucratic texts (such as postal bulletins, utility bills, and certificates).
-They start to navigate dialogic texts within the classroom (through debates and discussions) and outside of it (they can conduct simple job interviews).
-They are capable of producing short papers and summarizing plots from books, films, TV series, etc.
-They are able to understand oral texts of medium complexity (such as clips from films, documentaries, and subtitled TV series) and simple written literary texts (such as quotes and excerpts from comics, novels, and short stories).
VOCABULARY
-In terms of vocabulary, the learner acquires the most common terms to describe people in relation to their mood.
-They deepen their knowledge of body vocabulary, learning the names of major internal organs, some ailments, and remedies.
-Regarding the domestic sphere, they become familiar with typical cooking terms (such as pinch, clove, etc.) and names referring to types of cooking and food preservation.
-They know the terms for the most common genres in literature, music, and cinema.
-They also acquire the main names of professions related to art, culture, and entertainment, as well as those designating events related to the work sphere (tasks, strikes, etc.).
-Finally, in the educational sphere, they learn the main words indicating types of schools and university faculties.
COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
-The learner acquires knowledge about how to express complaints and disbelief.
-They are able to argue a simple idea or choice and convince someone to do or not do something.
-They develop sufficient conversational skills, learning how to communicate their opinions on facts, attitudes, and others' statements.
-They know how to request attention, take the floor, and reassure the interlocutor about the receipt of information.
-They gain familiarity with reading and writing, learning how to describe objects, actions, and people from different perspectives, how to summarize, and how to place events within a timeline; they also learn how to recognize simple rhetorical figures.
-Finally, they are able to compare Italian with their mother tongue and formulate hypotheses about how the language works.
UNDERSTANDING AND PRODUCTION OF ORAL AND WRITTEN TEXTS
-Textually, the learner acquires knowledge about how to produce informal texts of medium complexity and to understand simple bureaucratic texts (such as postal bulletins, utility bills, and certificates).
-They start to navigate dialogic texts within the classroom (through debates and discussions) and outside of it (they can conduct simple job interviews).
-They are capable of producing short papers and summarizing plots from books, films, TV series, etc.
-They are able to understand oral texts of medium complexity (such as clips from films, documentaries, and subtitled TV series) and simple written literary texts (such as quotes and excerpts from comics, novels, and short stories).
VOCABULARY
-In terms of vocabulary, the learner acquires the most common terms to describe people in relation to their mood.
-They deepen their knowledge of body vocabulary, learning the names of major internal organs, some ailments, and remedies.
-Regarding the domestic sphere, they become familiar with typical cooking terms (such as pinch, clove, etc.) and names referring to types of cooking and food preservation.
-They know the terms for the most common genres in literature, music, and cinema.
-They also acquire the main names of professions related to art, culture, and entertainment, as well as those designating events related to the work sphere (tasks, strikes, etc.).
-Finally, in the educational sphere, they learn the main words indicating types of schools and university faculties.
Pre-requirements
Ownership of A2 level skills
Referral texts
Ciro Massimo Naddeo, Euridice Orlandino, "DIECI lezioni di italiano, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri, B1", ALMA Edizioni, ISBN-10: 8861826652
Teaching language
Italian
Definitive programme.