Students will be able to:
Understand sentences and conversations concerning basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment;
Communicate in routine tasks requiring a simple exchange of information on familiar and routine matters;
understand and deal with the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure etc.

Italian 2

Expanding grammar (the system of tenses: passato prossimo, imperfetto, condizionale, futuro, imperativo; imperativo and direct and indirect pronouns, double negation, passato prossimo of modal verbs);
exercises focusing on the four abilities: Listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Business Italian (basic vocabulary of business) .
Italy and its institutions.

Contatto A2, Loescher 2007; or:
Allegro 2, Klett 2003; campusitalia, Klett 2009.

The lessons, based on current principles of modern language teaching, are communicative, learner-oriented, task oriented and intercultural.
Discussions, self study and group work, role play, learning by doing, Instructions for autonomous learning.
Discussions, group work, learning by doing, presentations

Compulsory attendance;
homeworks; contribution to class discussion (30%)
midterm exam: listening and reading comprehension (30%);
final exam: written and oral competence (40%)