ITALIAN 1
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Course No. : ( 320119 )
Pre-requisite : None
Credit Hours : 3
1. course objectives
2. The Syllabus
3. References
4. Grading Policy
5. Teacher & office hours
1. OBJECTIVES
a) General objectives:
- enabling the students to work together in a co-operative
way
- getting the students to know about cultural
differences and analogies between their country and the target language
country, developing:
i) a sociolinguistic competence (sensitivity to social
conventions, rules of politeness, norms governing relations between
generations, sexes, classes and social groups, etc.)
ii) a sociocultural knowledge about everyday living,
living conditions, interpersonal relations, etc.
b) Specific learning objectives:
AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEMESTER, STUDENTS WILL BE
ABLE TO:
- understand enough to be able to meet needs of a
concrete type provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated
- understand phrases and expressions related to areas
of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information,
shopping, local geography, employment).
- understand short, simple texts containing the
highest frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared international
vocabulary items.
- understand short simple personal letters.
- communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a
simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters to do
with work and free time.
- make an introduction and use basic greeting and
leave-taking expressions
- ask and answer questions about themselves and other
people, where they live, people they know, things they have.
- indicate time
- reply in an interview to simple direct personal
questions
- ask for or pass on personal details in written form,
fill in a form.
- describe people, places and possessions in simple
terms.
- describe him/herself, what he/she does and where
he/she lives.
- ask for permission
- talk about duties and abilities
2. SYLLABUS
a) linguistic functions: Basic greeting and
leave-taking expressions (formal/informal); introducing oneself; asking/telling
one’s name, age, address, telephone number, nationality, marital status;
spelling one’s name; asking and talking about one’s family; asking and talking
about jobs; asking and talking about habits; asking and talking about the
weather; asking and telling the time; describing a person; locating things in
the space (introd.); asking and talking about frequencies; asking for
permission; asking and talking about duties, abilities; talking about
quantities; talking about aims. Contrasting formal/informal style.
b) Phonetics and intonation: the alphabet,
distinctive vowels, the sounds “gn” and “gl”, the function of “h” after “c” and
“g”, asking questions using intonation.
c) Grammar: Pronouns. “To be” and “to have”.
Question form. Singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, definite and indefinite
articles, possessives. Present tense of all regular verbs and of the most
frequent irregular ones. Modal
verbs. Wh-words in Italian. Prepositions and the combination of preposition and
articles.
d) Lexical areas: Countries and nationalities,
the family, jobs, school, places, physical appearance, meals, parts of the day,
days of the week, months, numbers.
e) Civilization: geography and topics connected
with everyday life.
3. Textbook and References
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Chiuchiù et al., In Italiano, vol.1, Perugia, Ed. Guerra, 1997 (Italian
1: Units 1-4)
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Gruppo Meta, Uno, Roma, Ed. Bonacci, 1992 (Italian 1: Units 1-9)
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Chiuchiù et al., In Italiano, vol. 2, Perugia, Ed. Guerra, 1997.
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Gruppo Meta, Due, Roma, Ed. Bonacci, 1992.
4. GRADING POLICY
There are two tests and a final exam.
The tests include grammar exercises (where correctness
is required) and communicative ones (where evaluation will essentially take
into account the ability of the student to successfully convey the wanted
message).
Participation is also evaluated in terms of regular
presence, active participation in the lessons and in the conversation classes,
regular production of the requested individual homework.
The evaluation components will carry the following
weights:
1. Test 1: 20% + 5% participation
2. Test 2: 20% + 5% participation
3. Final test: 50%
5. TEACHER
& OFFICE HOURS
1.
Teachers : of the Language Center
2.
Office Hours : to be arranged and announced by teacher