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Rome, Italy - Course Descriptions - Intermediate Italian Language

Course Information

Subject: Italian (ITA)
Number: 200
Professor: Ponce de Leon, M.
Language of Instruction: English
Prerequisites: Italian 100

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 42 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits
1 Month Session: 42 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits
6 Weeks Session: 42 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

Availability

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Full Description

Objectives

Open to students who have completed the equivalent of Intermediate I. The first part of this course is designed to review main grammar points such as verb tenses in the major time frames, passive forms, and impersonal constructions. The second part concentrates on consolidating specific communicative tasks, including stating opinions and constructing hypotheses, in both speaking and writing. Specialized vocabulary is expanded and appropriate variables in register are introduced in expository writing and conversation. Review and study in-depth the following grammar points: Passato prossimo and Imperfetto, Passato remoto, Simple and Anterior Future, Present and Past Conditional, Subjunctive, If clause. Active and Passive and Reflexive voices.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this course, students will possess the ability to:

  • understand and express themselves in oral and written Italian with a good degree of correctness
  • narrate and describe in major time frames with good control and confidence
  • participate actively in long conversations in most informal and some formal settings on any concrete and some abstract topics
  • To obtain indirect and direct information from texts and conversations
  • express their own opinions efficiently on personal and social experiences with a good degree of confidence and linguistic precision
  • produce, with good control of the most frequently used structures, narratives, descriptions, and summaries of factual nature

Assessment Tools

Listening

  • In-class listening activities: Students listen to the instructor reading texts, usually from the required textbook or other material, the duration of which will be of at least 1000-1200 words. Students answer (in writing) to an increasing number of questions that test their comprehension of what they have heard.

Speaking

  • In-class oral activities and exams: Students are examined singularly and in pairs. The type of tests are: conversation between the two students, monologues, role playing. The multiplicity of situations and the request to express personal opinions increase from elementary level to advanced level. Conversations, monologues and role playing are elicited by visual stimuli or questions from the instructor from a list known to the students.

Reading

  • In-class activities and exams: Students read an increasing number of texts of increasing length, complexity and of different genres, ranging from public to personal opinions; from narrative to informative; from argumentative, and explicative, to cultural and academic. They answer in writing to several questions that test their comprehension of what they have read.

Writing

  • Homework assignments and exams: Students answer written questions and produce written texts of increasing length, formality and complexity on topics of every day life, personal feelings, impressions, and professional experiences and opinions of common and social interest.

Syllabus

Week 1

Presentazioni. Introduzione al corso.
Grammatica: Morfologia del Passato prossimo, Uso del Passato prossimo, Uso degli ausiliari essere e avere
Funzioni comunicative: Raccontare e riassumere una storia, Descriviamo qualcuno e qualcosa!

Week 2

Grammatica: Morfologia dell' Imperfetto indicativo, Uso dell'Imperfetto indicativo, Trapassato prossimo
Lessico: Le parti del corpo, aggettivi, metafore
Funzioni comunicative: Descrivere, raccontare una storia al passato

Week 3

Grammatica: Morfologia del Passato remoto, Uso del Passato remoto, Ripasso dei tempi passati dell'Indicativo.
Lessico: La favola, elementi caratteristici
Quiz 1

Week 4

Grammatica: Morfologia del Condizionale presente, Usi del Condizionale presente, Morfologia del Condizionale passato, Usi del Condizionale
Funzioni comunicative: Esprimere desideri, progetti
Produzione scritta: Lettura di un testo di Rodari e composizione relativa al racconto

Week 5

Grammatica: Il Congiuntivo presente, Il Congiuntivo passato
Funzioni comunicative: Esprimere un parere personale, un giudizio, Esprimere sentimenti di gioia, timore, speranza, dispiacere, Descrivere.
Intervista dal vivo: PRO E CONTRO su un argomento scelto in classe

Week 6

Grammatica: Il Congiuntivo imperfetto e trapassato, Congiunzioni che reggono il Congiuntivo, Concordanza dei tempi del Congiuntivo
Funzioni comunicative: Esprimere desideri.
Formulare ipotesi possibili e impossibili
Quiz 2

Week 7

Ripasso
MID TERM EXAM (giovedì 23 marzo)

Week 8

Revisione Mid term Exam
Grammatica: Introduzione al Periodo ipotetico
Presentazione orale: Per le vie di Trastevere

Week 9

Grammatica: I pronomi, diretti, indiretti, combinati. L’imperativo con pronomi
Funzioni comunicative: Saper chiedere informazioni, dare ordini, esprimere le proprie motivazioni
Lessico: La pubblicità, il linguaggio
Quiz 3

Week 10

Grammatica: Aggettivi e pronomi indefiniti, Pronomi relativi
Funzioni comunicative: Argomentare, dibattere

Week 11

Grammatica: Morfologia delle forme passive, Uso delle forme passive
Funzioni comunicative: Riferire su un argomento.
Quiz 4

Week 12

Presentazione orale: Pubblicizzate il vostro paese o la vostra città, Composizione su un argomento a scelta della classe

Week 13

PREPARAZIONE ALL’ESAME FINALE CON ATTIVITA’ DI REVISIONE E PRODUZIONE SCRITTA SOTTO GUIDA DELL’INSEGNANTE

Week 14

ESAME FINALE

Recommended Text(s)

A. Mazzetti, P. Manili, M.R. Bagianti, Qui Italia più. Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri. Livello medio, Le Monnier 2001.
A. Mazzetti, P. Manili, M.R. Bagianti, Qui Italia più. Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri. Livello medio. Quaderno di esercitazioni pratiche, Le Monnier 2001.
Students must have two good dictionaries: one bilingual and the second only Italian (e.g. Garzanti, Zanichelli).
Highly suggested: English Grammar for Students of Italian, by Karen Primorac et al., Oliva and Hill Press, 1995.

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