Upon the successful completion of the Language Immersion Course Italian 3, students will acquire the following competences regarding the Italian language:

• describe a person physically and describe someone's personality
  
• talk about clothes and sizes
  
• talk about prices
  
• describe a home, write a simple real estate advertisement
  
• express desires and hopes
  
• talk about health and common diseases
  
• express themselves in a pharmacy or at the doctor's
  
• ask for and give advices
  
• talk about journeys, movies, and books
  
• express simple opinions
  

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This is a language course for slightly advanced students with basic knowledge of Italian (at CEF level A2-B1). The following language topics will be covered in this module:

• different uses of the passato prossimotense and the imperfettotense
• direct and indirect pronouns
• connectives and time adverbs
• imperative with pronouns
• quantities ("molto", "troppo", "troppo poco",...)
• condizionale presente
• impersonal form
• impersonal verbs (weather verbs such as "piovere", "nevicare")
• future tense

Guastalla, C. & Naddeo, G. M. (2010). Domani 2: Corso di lingua e cultura italiana (A2). Firenze: Alma Edizioni.
Lombardo, D., Nosengo, L., & Sanguineti, A. M. (2005). L'italiano con la pubblicità: Livello elementare. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni.
McIntosh, C. (1992). Oxford Italian Grammar and Verbs. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Nocchi S., (2011). Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana. Firenze: Alma Edizioni.
Oxford Dictionaries (ed.) (2009). Oxford Essential Italian Dictionary. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
PONS (ed.) (2014). PONS Verben auf einen Blick Italienisch. Stuttgart: PONS.
Ziglio, L. & Rizzo, G. (2015). Nuovo Espresso 2 (A2). Italian edition. Firenze: Alma Edizioni.

• Lecture and presentation
  
• Group and pair work
  
• Role plays
  
• Learning games
  
• Individual exercises
  
• Self-study
  
• Homework

Integrated module exam (immanent examination character):

• Class preparation/homework 20%
  
• Class participation 20%
  
• Final examination (includes reading and listening comprehension, speaking and writing) 60%.