Adult Classes Descriptions

Levels

Comunication and Vocab

Grammar

A1

Sign Up

    • Greetings (ciao, buon giorno,
    • buona sera, buona notte...)
    • Introductions (mi chiamo..., ho ...
    • anni, sono di..., piacere)
    • Polite expressions and
    • useful phrases (Come stai? vs
    • come sta? Come si dice? Che
    • significa? Grazie, prego...)
    • Countries & nationalities
    • To come from & to live (sono
    • di... vs abito a...)
    • Months
    • Days of the week
    • Numbers (ordinali e cardinali)
    • Time and date (Che ore sono?
    • Che giorno è oggi?)
    • Family members

    • To be – present tense
    • To have – present tense
    • Nouns
    • Adjectives
    • Articles
    • There is & there are
    • Regular verbs – present tense
    • Affirmative sentence
    • Negative sentence
    • Basic question words
    • Simple and articulated prepositions
    • Possessive adjectives

A1+

Sign Up

    • Food
    • To like (mi piace.../mi piacciono...)
    • Daily routine
    • Work (sono.../faccio...; lavoro a.../lavoro in...)
    • Free time (fare sport, suonare strumenti, leggere...)
    • Shopping (negozi, centro commerciale, mercato, vestiti, spesa...)
    • Price (Quanto costa? Quanto costano?)
    • Means of transportation
    • Around town (edifici, vie, negozi, chiesa, banca, edicola...)
    • Directions (dritto, destra, sinistra...)
    • Quantities (grammi, chili, litri...)

    • Irregular verbs – present tense
    • Reflexive verbs – present tense
    • Adverbs of frequency
    • Partitive articles
    • This and that
    • Direct object pronouns
    • Impersonal “si”
    • Verbs: sapere vs conoscere
    • Modal verbs: dovere, potere, volere
    • Verbs: potere vs sapere
    • Past tense – passato prossimo

A2

Sign Up

    • Talk about memories: once upon a time... when I was younger...
    • Physical descriptions (alto, basso, bello, brutto, lungo, corto...)
    • Words describing personality (simpatico, gentile,
      allegro...)
    • Talk about near future plans (come rimaniamo? A che ora...? Volentieri! D’accordo!)
    • Ask information politely (volevo sapere....)
    • Talk about feelings (mi sento...)
    • Use some interjections and exclamations (ma davvero? Ma dai! Ma non mi dire! Roba da matti!
      Sul serio?)
    • Talk about health problems (avere mal di.../problemi a...; farsi male a/fare male...)

    • Past tense – imperfect
    • Imperfect vs passato prossimo
    • Comparative and superlative forms
    • Phrasal verbs: cominciare a, finire di, andarsene, volerci...
    • Imperative
    • Future – future semplice
    • Very & too: troppo & molto
    • Stare + gerund
    • Double negatives
    • Indirect object pronouns
    • Present & past progressive
    • The verb “servire”

B1

Sign Up

    • Express opinions, wishes, hope (secondo me ...  non/sono d’accordo ... che io sappia ... magari!
    • Vorrei ... sarebbe bello ...)
    • Ask for help (mi darebbe una mano? Potrebbe aiutarmi?...)
    • Prima di + infinite
    • Hypothesis (dovrebbe ...)
    • Avere voglia di ... 
    • Complain (avrei un problema ... l’errore è vostro ... voglio parlare con un responsabile ... )
    • Apologize and justify (mi dispiace ... è la prima  volta che ... non so cosa sia successo...)
    • Texting and calling
    • Come se + subjunctive
    • Fare + infinitive (lasciare, fare in modo che, permettere)
    • Ti va di + infinitive, sentirsela + infinitive

    • Nouns’ modifying suffixes: nomi alterati
    • Past tense – trapassato
    • Conditional mode
    • Combined pronouns
    • Subjunctive mode
    • Adverbs in -mente
    • Introduction to indirect speech
    • Pronominal particles “ci/ne”
    • Sequence of tenses – agreement between verbs in related clauses
    • Past tense – passato remote
    • Historic/narrative present
    • Comparative and superlative – peculiar forms
    • “If” clauses – periodo ipotetico

B2

Sign Up

    • Talk about events in the past and in the present
    • Talk about regrets
    • Express opinions, wishes and criticisms
    • Make suggestions, judgments and proposals
    • Describe in detail (people, thing, pictures, procedures ...)
    • Talk about percentages and statistics
    • Talk about emotions and feelings
    • Interview someone
    • Use sarcasm and irony
    • Talk about a book or a movie plot
    • Review a book or a movie
    • Congratulate and compliment
    • Give and ask for advice

    • Auxiliaries and verbs with double auxiliary
    • Pronominal verbs (andarsene, cavarsela, sentirsela, uscirsene, entrarci ... )
    • Review past tenses – passato prossimo, imperfect, passato remote, trapassato
    • Future perfect tense
    • Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
    • Passive constructions with “si”
    • Verbs and prepositions
    • Indirect speech – part 2
    • Possessive “proprio”
    • “If” clauses – part 2
    • Sentence structure
    • Irregular profession nouns masculine/feminine
    • Homonymous
    • Words with double plural