Intermediate (A2)
Beyond the basics.
Overview
The intermediate level is divided into three courses (201, 202, 203). 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 intermediate-level courses and their accompanying text, Allegro 2.
Italian 201
Text: Allegro 2
Course Description
After completing Italian 201, students will be able to:
- speak and write about members of their family
- talk about their memories from childhood
- discuss things they used to do in the past
- describe the typical Italian family
- express their opinions in favor or against a given topic
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- possessive adjectives, relative superlatives, reflexive verbs in the simple past tense, imperfect verb tense
Italian 202
Text: Allegro 2
Course Description
After completing Italian 202, students will be able to:
- describe the physical aspect of others
- formulate hypotheses
- make, accept and refuse invitations
- write letters and other forms of personal correspondence
- read narrative texts
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- verbs in the transitive and intransitive forms, present conditional tense, the gerund, direct pronouns in the past tense, pronouns with the infinitive, relative pronouns
Italian 203
Text: Allegro 2
Course Description
After completing Italian 203, students will be able to:
- give advice to others
- express appreciation or disgust with respect to food
- describe your personal health
- talk about physical activity and sports
- persuade others to do something
At the grammatical level, students will be able to use:
- imperative in the formal and informal forms, pronouns with the imperative, irregular comparative forms
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.