Italian B1.1
Code
711111103
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
4
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Italiano
Objectives
a) To understand dialogues, informative texts, letters, instructions, reports.
b) To describe events and briefly explain reasons and justify an opinion.
c) To use the Italian Language in communicative situations in which a general use of the language is required.
d) To write formal or informal letters that might contain personal information, description of people, places and events. A revision of the text may be necessary.
e) To use the grammar and lexical structures necessary for the production of the oral and written texts required.
Prerequisites
Italian A2.2
Subject matter
1) Comparative and superlative adjectives, indirect pronouns, combined pronouns, prepositions combined with articles.
2) Present and past conditional, present conjunctive, conjunctions.
3) Italian music, videos about some cultural Italian topics.
4) Reading of Italian articles from newspapers and magazines and anlysis of the first part of the novel chosen.
5) Creative writing exercises.
Bibliography
a. Bozzone Costa, Ghezzi, Piantoni Contatto 2, Loescher Ed 2009
b. Gramática de referência ( para todas as turmas): CSC, Gramm.it, Bonacci 2009.
c. N novel by an Italian writer upon the students choice.
Teaching method
The course will be based on the functional-communicative method in order to enhance the spoken aspect of the language and improve the pupil-teacher relationship. The contents will be presented according to a multi-syllabus system that integrates grammar, lexicon, functions, communication and the development of reading and speaking abilities.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: 2 final tests (50%), 1 mid-term test + individual works (40%), active participation in the classroom (10%).
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- Language Sciences
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- English and French Studies