This is the third  course in the basic Italian language sequence

The objectives of the course are to develop low intermediate skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening with the help of the introduction of new grammar structures. The primary goals are to build communicative competence and enhance social and cultural awareness in Italian.

Students will learn how to :

• order at the restaurant
• express preferences
• speak about vocabulary of Italian dishes and drinks and how to make comparison between Italian typical recipes
• talk about past situation
• give a physical and personality description of someone and making comparisons
• describe food and eating habits
• talk about health condition
• ask and give information about medicines
• get an appointment with a doctor
• say the part of the body
• talk about future actions
• talk about  habitual actions in the past
• talk about books, music and movies
• talk about leisure time and how often to do something
• describe personality and character of  people in the past
• tell about personal experiences

Students will study:

• partitive articles (some, any)
• adverbs of frequency (spesso, mai, sempre, qualche volta).
•  imperative
• use of pronouns with imperative tense
•  imperfect tense
• differences between passato prossimo and imperfetto
• irregulars nouns in -cia, -gia
• indefinite adjectives: qualche, qualcuno, qualcosa, nessuno
• comparatives and superlatives
• use of adverb of time with passato prossimo (sempre, ancora, già)
• use of “ne” as a partitive pronoun
• present conditional
• impersonal verbs (piovere, nevicare);
• adverbs in -mente
• future tense
• difference between future and present simple
• some irregular verbs