Program Overview

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Please note: classes for this course run for two and a half hours from 6pm to 8.30pm.

The interactive short course Italian 3, leading to *CEFR stage B2 (Upper Intermediate)/A-level+, is aimed at developing your language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) in Italian to an advanced level of ability. It will also help you gain further insight into aspects of the culture and society of Italy. You will consolidate your knowledge of tenses and learn to use more complex sentences and structures, as well as idioms and expressions. You will be working with longer texts from a range of media, including news and current affairs programmes as well as films.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar

understand most TV news and current affairs programmes

understand the majority of films in standard dialect

read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints

understand contemporary literary prose

interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible

take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining your views

present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to your field of interest

explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options

write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to your interests

write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of, or against, a particular point of view

write letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.

Assessment consists of continuous (20%), listening in-class (20%), written in-class (35%) and oral in-class assessment (20%) and class participation (5%).

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Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

. Please note: this is only an approximate equivalence.

This can be taken as a standalone short course or as a part of:

Culture and Language (French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish) (Certificate of Higher Education)

30 credits at level 4