UC – Siena Study Center

Summer Quarter 2009

Italian Language – Level 1
Course Syllabus
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Course Description
An introduction to Italian as a spoken and written language, with emphasis on practical
conversation. Students will be able to write simple phrases on present, past and future events,
read texts containing a lexis of daily life and communicate on familiar and habitual topics.

Syllabus

Week 1 (June 22nd-25th)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: greeting someone, finding out someone’s name, finding out where
someone is from, saying good bye, expressing likes and dislikes; alphabet and pronunciation, months and seasons,
numbers from 0 to 9.999.
Grammar: gender, indefinite articles, numbers, definite articles, the verb piacere, the verbs essere (to be) and avere
(to have).

Monday 22

WB: 1-A

Week 2 (June 29th-July 1st)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: asking how someone is, asking someone’s nationality; describing
people, places, and things.
Grammar: adjectives, irregular plural adjectives, there is/there are (c'è / ci sono), possessive adjectives,
demonstrative pronouns questo e quello, other adjectives that precede the noun, adjectives buono e bello, idiomatic
expressions with avere.

Monday 29 WB: 21-A; 23-B;

Interview an 24-F; 26-B; 323-
A; 94-C
Italian!
Week 3 (July 6th -9th)
Communicative objectives and vocabulary: asking and telling time, asking when events occur, saying what you
like to do in your free time; talking about your daily activities.
Grammar: the infinitive of the verb, the present indicative of regular verbs, irregular verbs (andare, bere, fare, uscire,
venire, rimanere, scegliere).

Monday 6
At the
WB: 39-A; 42-C
library!
Handout

Week 4 (July 13th – 16th)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: meeting people and finding out what they do for a living; commenting
on things and complimenting people; talking about your family, inviting someone to do something, declining an
invitation; restaurant terms and items on an Italian menu; let’s set the table!
Grammar: review of possessive adjectives, interrogatives, the present indicative, adjectives.
Possessives with family members, interrogatives, the interrogatives quanto e quale, more irregular verbs (fare, dare,
stare, sapere, dire), the comparative; verb + infinitive.

Monday 13
The
WB: 61- A; 62-C;
family:
66- C
interview
an Italian!
Tuesday 14 WB: 68- A ; 69-B;
75-B; 77-F

Thursday 16

WB: 95-A; 97-C; QUIZ 2

98-E; Scriviamo!,
82; 193-D

Week 5 (July 20th-23rd)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: inviting someone to do something, declining an invitation; restaurant
terms and items on an Italian menu; let’s set the table!
Grammar: prepositions, the partitive, the pronoun ci.
Wednesday 22 •Review Handout

Thursday 23 •Review WB: Scriviamo!,

108

Handout

Week 6 (July 27th-30th)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: expressing surprise, pain and so on, asking what happened; talking
about your weekend activities.
Grammar: the present perfect of regular verbs and irregular verbs; the present perfect of sapere, conoscere, piacere,
negative expressions.

Monday 27
Interview:
WB: 114-C; 116-F
“The
weekend”

Week 7 (August 3th-6th) )

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: making polite requests, asking permission, describing your clothes,
asking for information, expressing good wishes; talking about Italian and American holiday celebrations.
Grammar direct and in direct objects, present progressive, reflexive verbs, adverbs, molto, poco, buono, cattivo, bene,
male, reciprocal verbs, prepositions.

Monday 3

WB: 127-A; 131-

Clothing A,B
store

Tuesday 4 WB: 132-A; 133-

C

Handout

Thursday 6

WB: 148-B; 152-

C; 154- C,D; 158- TEST 2
B, C; 334-A
Week 8 (August 10th -13th)
Communicative objectives and vocabulary: finding out someone's future plans, describing how things used to be,
talking about education and professions, expressing regret, sorrow, and making apologies, activities, hobbies, and well-
being.
Grammar: the pronoun ne, the imperfect, the imperfect vs. the present perfect, the past progressive, the future,
hypotheticals of probabilities, the future of probability.

Nota: è nel cap. 8.

Monday 10
The Palio
WB: 194-A; 196-
and the D; 198-G
traditional
holydays

Wednesday 12 WB: 174-A; 176-

D; 178-A

Week 9 (August 17th – 20th)

Communicative objectives and vocabulary: review.
Grammar: review.

Wednesday 19

Thursday 20