Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

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

Italian

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 student’s 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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