Advanced (B1)
Beyond intermediate.
Overview
The advanced level is divided into three courses (301, 302, 303). Classes for each course meet once a week over a period of 9 weeks. It will take one year and approximately 90 hours of study (60 hours in the classroom and approximately 40 minutes at home per/week) to complete all three advanced-level courses and their accompanying text, Allegro 3.
Italian 301
Text: Allegro 3
Course Description
After completing Italian 301, students will be able to:
- talk about their experience in learning Italian
- describe a city and its problems
- discuss the utility/uselessness of public projects
- argue with someone else
- express agreement or disagreement
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- past perfect tense, object pronouns, negative prefixes, past conditional tense, ‘remote’ past tense, possessive pronouns
Italian 302
Text: Allegro 3
Course Description
After completing Italian 302, students will be able to:
- make suppositions
- formulate justifications
- discuss the media and publicity campaigns
- understand and tell fables
- understand and summarize literary themes
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- past subjunctive tense, future anterior tense, imperfect subjunctive tense, subjunctive with relative superlatives, passive uses of essere and venire
Italian 303
Text: Allegro 3
Course Description
After completing Italian 303, students will be able to:
- family politics in Italy and their own countries
- explain the evolution of the family in Italy
- formulate improbable hypotheses
- describe their relationship to traditional and nontraditional holidays
- write a brief situation/role play
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- impersonal form of reflexive verbs, the suffix -bile, absolute superlative forms, pronouns with the gerund, magari and mica, hypothetical expressions
Published class times are based on a minimum of four students. If class enrollment is less than four, we reserve the right to cancel the class or reduce class time.