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Italian September A1

Communication & grammar skills A1

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The A1 courses are addressed to absolute beginners or those who were assigned to the A1 level after the placement test.

First-year researchers have been assigned to a specific course. Everyone else is kindly asked to fill in this pre-enrollment form.

EUI language courses are free for EUI PhD and LL.M. researchers, but most other EUI members have to pay a nominal fee

 

Italian courses start in September, October or January. Each course is composed of 3 to 4 modules. 

If you wish to continue in October, please enrol directly in the course indicated by your teacher or write to [email protected].

 
 

Italian 101 - Module 1 

Italian 102 - Module 1 

Italian 103 - Module 1 

Italian 104 - Module 1 

Italian 105 - Module 1 & 2 

Italian 106 - Module 1 

Italian 107 - Module 1 & 2 

Italian 108 - Module 1

Italian 109 - Module 1 

 

Italian 101


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1

Reserved 1st year

Time 


9-20 September  

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

16.30-18.45

16 hours

 

Place & Instructor


Convento

Vygotsky room

Alessandra Becucci

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

 

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

 

Italian 102


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1

Reserved 1st year

 

Time 


9-20 September  

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

16.30-18.45

16 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Grice room

Francesca Chiarini

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Francesca Chiarini holds a degree in Glottodidactics from Ca' Foscari University in Venice and specialises in teaching Italian to adult migrants. In recent years, she has worked in public schools, teaching Italian to primary and secondary school students, and in different associations dealing with adult migrants.
She has been working at the EUI since 2019.                                                                           

Italian 103


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1 

Reserved 1st year

Time 


9-20 September  

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

16.30-18.45

16 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Wittgenstein room

Alessandra Adriani

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Alessandra Adriani, a Literature graduate from the University of Florence, has been teaching Italian language and culture at Syracuse University in Florence since 2006. She has previously taught in other academic institutions in Florence such as the Centro di Cultura per Stranieri of Unifi and in various American programmes such as Pepperdine University, Kent State, California State University, as well as the EUI. She is a PLIDA interviewer and examiner and works with the Dante Alighieri Society (Florence) in exam sessions for Italian language certificates. Her article is being published in the specialist journal L.I.A (Lingua in Azione), editor M.Maggini, Unisi, section 'Experiences/Activities'.

Italian 104


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1 

Reserverd 1st year

Time 


9-20 September  

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

16.30-18.45

16 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Chomsky room

Valentina Martelli

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Valentina Martelli has been teaching Italian as a second and as a foreign language since the beginning of her career. She has been teaching Italian at the Language Center since 2013 for A1 to B2 level courses.After university she specialized in teaching Italian language thanks to a Master's degree at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and to preparatory courses in language teaching at the Universities of Parma, Siena and Rome.                                 

She is the author of simplified texts aimed at studying school subjects in primary and secondary schools. Her teaching approach puts students at the center of their language learning process.      

Italian 105


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1 & 2

Reserverd 1st year

Time 


9-20 September 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

16.30-18.45

16 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Austin room

Serena Neri

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Serena Neri has been teaching at the EUI since 2017. She earned her degree in Lingue e Lettarature Straniere from the University of Florence in 2006. After initially teaching in private schools, she began to teach Italian to immigrants, in order to help with their integration into Italian society. In 2010 she was awarded a Master’s degree in “Didattica e Promozione della Lingua Italiana a Stranieri” by the Universita Ca Foscari; her thesis, which focuses entirely on the prison of Sollicciano, is published on the University’s site.                                             

She holds an examiner’s certificate for the CILS exam, and works as an examiner at the Universita per Stranieri di Siena.  

Italian 106


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1

Reserved Max Weber Fellows; other EUI newcomers if places available

Time


9-27 September

Emeroteca:

11.00-13.00: 9, 11, 13 Sept.

Refectory:

9.00-11.00: 16, 24 Sept.

11.00-13.00: 19, 20, 23, 26, 27 Sept.

 

20 hours

 

Place & Instructor


Badia Fiesolana

Emeroteca / Refectory

Mya Giungi

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Mya Giungi has been teaching Italian as a Foreign Language since 2009, and at the EUI since 2017. She holds an examiner’s certificate for the CILS exam. She has taught Italian to immigrants and asylum seekers in both the private and public education sector. After being awarded a Master’s degree in Cooperation and Development by the University of Pavia, she coordinated a project for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia. She decided to return to Italy to contribute to the integration of foreigners into Italian society through the essential and emancipatory instrument of language. 

Italian 107


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1 & 2

Reserved Max Weber Fellows; other EUI newcomers if places available

Time


9-27 September

Emeroteca:

9.00-11.00: 9, 10, 13 Sept.

13.00-15.00: 11 Sept.

Refectory:

9.00-11.00: 17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27 Sept.

 

20 hours

Place & Instructor


Badia Fiesolana

Emeroteca / Refectory

Mya Giungi

 

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Mya Giungi has been teaching Italian as a Foreign Language since 2009, and at the EUI since 2017. She holds an examiner’s certificate for the CILS exam. She has taught Italian to immigrants and asylum seekers in both the private and public education sector. After being awarded a Master’s degree in Cooperation and Development by the University of Pavia, she coordinated a project for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia. She decided to return to Italy to contribute to the integration of foreigners into Italian society through the essential and emancipatory instrument of language. 

 

Italian 108


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1

Reserved PLF; other EUI newcomers if places available

Time


25 September - 14 October

Monday & Wednesday

10.00-12.00: 25 September

13.00-15.00: 30 September

10.30-12.30: 2, 9, 14 October

13.30-15.30: 7 October

 

12 hours

Place & Instructor


Buontalenti

Small Seminar Room

* H. Arendt Room on 25 September

Mya Giungi

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Serena Neri has been teaching at the EUI since 2017. She earned her degree in Lingue e Lettarature Straniere from the University of Florence in 2006. After initially teaching in private schools, she began to teach Italian to immigrants, in order to help with their integration into Italian society. In 2010 she was awarded a Master’s degree in “Didattica e Promozione della Lingua Italiana a Stranieri” by the Universita Ca Foscari; her thesis, which focuses entirely on the prison of Sollicciano, is published on the University’s site.                                             

She holds an examiner’s certificate for the CILS exam, and works as an examiner at the Universita per Stranieri di Siena.  

Italian 109


Communication & grammar skills

CEFR level: A1 Module 1 

EUI newcomers

Time


9-27 September 

Monday, Wednesday & Thursday

14.00-16.00

18 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Grice room

Valentina Martelli

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able 

  • to use the language of daily routines and interact in basic communicative situations: to introduce themselves, to talk about their interests, preferences, habits, etc. 
  • to provide the most important information about what they do, the reasons they are in Italy, etc.
  • to talk about various aspects of their country (food, architecture, lifestyles, arts, sport, etc.)
  • to read and understand short simple texts
  • to listen and understand short simple recorded texts
  • to write simple notes and short messages
  • to use strategies to find basic information in materials used in everyday
  • communication (programs, menus, timetables, advertising, etc.)

Course content

 

Course materials are communicated by the teachers of the Italian Unit

 

The course includes work on the following:

  • basic grammatical structures at A1 level: verbs (present and past tense), nouns and adjectives, articles, adverbs of time, main prepositions (time and place) and main pronouns
  • Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest
  • Writing: short, simple texts, completing of forms, simple requests and answers
  • Listening: understanding familiar everyday expressions, recognizing concrete information in dialogues and announcements
  • Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
  • insights into Italian life and culture

Learning methods and activities

Activities in class include

  • grammar exercises
  • exercises to expand the vocabulary
  • reading and listening exercises
  • phonetic exercises
  • conversation in small groups
  • role play
  • pairwork
  • peer correction
  • individual writing

Teacher's bio

Valentina Martelli has been teaching Italian as a second and as a foreign language since the beginning of her career. She has been teaching Italian at the Language Center since 2013 for A1 to B2 level courses.After university she specialized in teaching Italian language thanks to a Master's degree at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and to preparatory courses in language teaching at the Universities of Parma, Siena and Rome.                                 

She is the author of simplified texts aimed at studying school subjects in primary and secondary schools. Her teaching approach puts students at the center of their language learning process.      

 

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