Advanced 2 Italian .
Scheme of work
Term 1
Week 1
Introduction to the course
News of the week
Talking about insults in Italy
Grammar: use of the infinitive mode
Vocabulary: use of juridical terms
Skills: listening, reading and speaking
Week 2
News of the week
Talking about Italian cinema and insults
Grammar: use of infinitive, past participle and gerund
Vocabulary: vocabulary for supporting an argument
Skills: listening, speaking and writing
Week 3
News of the week
Talking about insults in italy
Grammar: use of verbi pronominali, ma and macche`
Vocabulary: vocabulary for supporting an argument
Skills: listening, speaking and writing
Week 4
News of the week
Talking about the office
Grammar: use of si, and impersonal verbs
Vocabulary: vocabulary relating to clothes
Skills: listening, speaking and reading
Week 5
News of the week
Talking about the office
Grammar: use of the passive, impersonal verbs
Vocabulary: vocabulary relating to everyday life in the office
Skills: listening, reading and speaking
Week 6
News of the week
Talking about the office
Grammar: definite and indefinite articles
Vocabulary: vocabulary relating to job interviews
Skills: listening, reading and speaking
Week 7
News of the week
Talking about literature
Grammar: reported speech
Vocabulary: vocabulary related to reading and types of readers
Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
Week 8
News of the week
Talking about literature
Grammar: concordance in the reported speech, use of “insomma”
Vocabulary: vocabulary related to books and genres
Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
Week 9
News of the week
Talking about linguistic fashions and “habits”
Grammar: the negation and the “non pleonastico”
Vocabulary: words which get overused or misused
Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
Term 2
Week 1
News of the week
Talking about linguistic fashions
Grammar: metaphors and use of finche`, finche` non
Vocabulary: vocabulary related to bureaucracy
Skills: speaking, listening and reading
Week 2
News of the week
Talking about linguistic fashions
Grammar: intonation and rythm
Vocabulary: vocabulary to discuss language and metaphorical expressions
Skills: speaking, listening and reading
Week 3
News of the week
Talking about comedy and comedians in Italy
Grammar: if clauses
Vocabulary: vocabulary relating to comedy and ironic expressions
Skills: speaking and reading
Week 4
News of the week
Talking about comedy and comedians in Italy
Grammar: if clauses, use of fare + infinitive
Vocabulary: vocabulary to tell a joke, meanings between the lines
Skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing
Week 5
News of the week
Talking about comedy and comedians in Italy
Grammar: choice of words for their effective meaning
Vocabulary: vocabulary to express irony
Skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing
Week 6
News of the week
Talking about historical periods and fascism in Italy
Grammar: if clauses in the past
Vocabulary: the words of fascism
Skills: listening, speaking and reading
Week 7
News of the week
Talking about historical periods and fascism in Italy
Grammar: concordance of conditional and subjunctive
Vocabulary: words relating to history and fascism
Skills: speaking, listening and reading
Week 8
News of the week
Talking about historical periods and fascism in Italy
Grammar: if clauses, semantic choices
Vocabulary: talking about arts in the fascist period
Skills: speaking, listening and reading
Week 9
News of the week
Talking about Italian dialects
Grammar: indefinite adjectives and pronouns, dislocation of subjunctive
Vocabulary: words relating to dialects and language
Skills: speaking, listening and reading