Upon the successful completion of the Language Immersion Course Italian 1, students will acquire the following competencies regarding the Italian language:

• introduce themselves and others
• understand spoken greetings and introductions
• ask questions about personal details and family-related topics, geographical location, directions and spelling
• fill out personal details in forms
• interact on topics of interest
• read and understand short descriptions about people
• order and pay in a café
• describe their accommodation
• tell the time and talk about their daily routines
• talk about relatives and family

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This is a beginners' course for students with little or no prior Italian language knowledge (at CEF level A1). The following language topics will be covered in this module:

• Greetings and self-introduction
• Talking about myself, my family and my immediate surroundings (studies, work, home)
• Asking and answering questions about personal details and family-related topics
• Basic vocabulary, phrases, grammar structures, and connecting words
• The time and calendar
• Simple sentence structure, forming questions (interrogative pronouns) and statements, negation
• Local and temporal prepositions
• Personal and possessive pronouns
• Position of adverbs
• Present and passato prossimo
• Ordinal numbers
• Talking about preferences ("mi piace"/"mi piacciono")
• Talking about the weather ("piove")

Guastalla, C. & Naddeo, G. M. (2010). Domani 1: Corso di lingua e cultura italiana (A1). 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.
Mezzadri, M. (2001). Grammatica essenziale della lingua italiana con esercizi: Livello elementare e intermedio. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni.
Oxford Dictionaries (ed.) (2009). Oxford Essential Italian Dictionary. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Petri, A., Laneri, M., & Bernardoni, A. (2015). Grammatica di base dell'italiano. Barcelona: Casa delle Lingue.
PONS (ed.) (2014). PONS Verben auf einen Blick Italienisch. Stuttgart: PONS.
Ziglio, L. & Rizzo, G. (2015). Nuovo Espresso 1 (A1). Italian edition. Firenze: Alma Edizioni.

• Lecture and presentation
  
• Group and pair work
  
• Role plays
  
• Learning games
  
• Individual exercises
  
• Blended learning
  
• Homework

Integrated module exam (immanent examination character):

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