Italian

This is an intermediate level Italian language course for students who have previously completed two or more semesters of Italian. The listening comprehension section covers dialogue (in real or recorded situations) between at least two people, using relatively
elaborate morphosyntactic structures and using a political, social or cultural vocabulary; and the narrative of an anecdote, the summary and commentary of a newspaper article (easy language, medium length), television news (a newsflash, a weather report, an advertising message). The spoken production section includes talking about personal and professional projects; expressing feelings, preferences, tastes, opinions; expressing wish, regret, intention, fear, desire; presenting a plan; explaining the course of an action; presenting a written document (medium length text, newspaper articles); giving an opinion; expressing agreement and disagreement; establishing a comparison; expressing a hypothesis. Reading comprehension focuses on the essential elements of a text (press article, advertisement, fiction text or essay). Written expression includes writing a message to someone, make a request for information, send an email; writing a letter, a curriculum vitae and a cover letter; developing a simple comment from a given medium. The course also covers grammar (adverbs, pronouns, indefinites, prepositions, verbs, etc.), vocabulary, phonetics and spelling.