KOÇ ÜNIVERSITESI
SPRING 2008
Code: ITAL 202
Pre-requisites: ITAL 201 passed or test by the instructor
Course description: Standard Italian for beginners
Course aim: Make students able to interact fruitfully with native speakers of standard
pronunciation on topics relevant to everyday life and personal experience.
Methodology: The course has a communicative approach. Emphasis is on audio-oral skills.
Active participation in the classes is essential. Deductive reasoning on grammar points will be
encouraged.
Teaching techniques: Games, role-plays, questions and answers, pair work, skimming,
scanning and trans-coding will be widely used.
Textbooks: M. Mezzadri – P. Balboni, Rete! 1 Libro di classe (Units 1-8). Guerra edizioni
M. Mezzadri – P. Balboni, Rete! 1 Libro di casa (Units 1-8). Guerra edizioni
Extra material: Audio and written realia. Songs.
Reference books: Türkçe – İtalyanca Sözlüğü. İnkilap Yayınevi
İtalyanca - Türkçe Sözlüĝü. İnkilap Yayınevi
S. Necchi, Italian Grammar in Practice. Alma Edizioni
Prof. N. Adabaĝ, Sizin için İtalyanca. İnkilap Yayınevi
Course content: MAIN FUNCTIONS: Buying things. Describing objects. Expressing
agreement/disagreement, disappointment and surprise. Describing clothing. Expressing
preferences. Narrating past events. Asking for information. Expressing admiration. Talking
about the weather. Locating places and asking for/giving directions. Talking about future
activities. Inviting. Accepting/declining invitations.
MAIN LEXICAL AREAS: Supermarket items. Numbers. Specific jobs.
School world. Colours. Clothing. Holidays. Time related words. Geographical terms. City
infrastructures. Forms of invitations.
GRAMMAR POINTS: Revision of jobs. Irregular verbs. “Questo”
/”Quello”. Unstressed direct and oblique personal pronouns. “Passato prossimo”. Use of
“avere” /”essere” with “passato prossimo”. Stressed personal pronouns. “Se” + simple present
+simple present. Impersonal “si”. Use of “ci”. Future tense: regular and irregular forms.
Present tense with a future meaning. “Se” + future tense + future tense.
CIVILIZATION: Shopping. School system. How to telephone. Public
transport. Holidaying in Italy. Climate. Stereotypes on weather. Italian leading figures.
Festivals in Italy.
Evaluation: Global evaluation will be the outcome of the following:
Attendance: 10 %
Participation: 10 %
Mid-term test I: 15 % TBA
Mid-term test II: 15 % TBA
Presentation: 10%
Final test: Oral 15 % TBA
Written 25 % TBA
Attendance: Students are requested to attend classes. Attendance will be taken. The students
who fail to attend 85 % of classes will result in an F grade.