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)
- Phonetics: the “sci” and “sce” sounds
- 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 Turin?”
