ON-LINE ITALIAN COURSES

Communication is key 😉

Daily life -basic Italian 2 

MODULE 1 (4 LESSONS) “What do you like to eat?”

• Objective: Ordering food and drinks at the restaurant

• Topic: Food and drink vocabulary and understanding prices

• Grammar: the present indicative of regular and common irregular verbs (-are, -ere, -ire) and the verb “piacere” (to like)

• Phonetics: the silent “h” and the “gli” sound

• Culture: Why is our most traditional pizza called “Pizza Margherita”?

• Podcast: Ordering a Margherita in your favourite pizzeria in Naples

MODULE 2 (4 LESSONS) “Do you drink coffee with or without sugar?”

• Objective: Talking about food and shopping

• Topic: Talking about food, understanding prices and order

• Grammar: the verbs to want, to prefer, to can and the partitive articles 

• Phonetics: the “gn” and “gl” sounds

• Culture: The culture of coffee in Italy

• Podcast: Shopping at the market on Saturday mornings

MODULE 3 (4 LESSONS) “Where is the train station?”

• Objective: Traveling around Italy

• Topic: Asking for and giving directions and describing places

• Grammar: demonstratives (“questo,” “quello”), qualitative adjectives, direct pronouns (lo, la, li, le)

• Culture: five unmissable places you have to visit if you are in Piemonte

• Podcast: “How can I get to my hotel in the center of Rome?”

• Phonetics: The “sci” and “sce” sounds