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Italian C1.2

Course code

LCI6332.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Itaalia keel C1.2

Course title in English

Italian C1.2

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To provide the bases for the acquisition of competences in oral and written Italian at the level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language.

Brief description of the course

Grammar: use of verbal moods and tenses in the main clause and the subordinate clauses; consecutio temporum; aspect (perfective/imperfective); subordinate clauses with the infinite, the gerund and the participle; indirect speech.
Oral expression: conversations about actual questions in Italy. The students themselves choose the arguments and present them to the class. A discussion follows.
Writing skills: the students write short essays about the topics discussed during the conversation classes; analysis and correction of mistakes in writing; practice of different kind of writing (academic, journalistic, narrative, etc…).
Listening, reading and understanding: reading and interpretation of difficult (literary and essayistic) original texts in Italian. Watching and listening of original audiovisual material in order to increase the understanding of spoken Italian.
Individual work.
The pre-requisite for the registration is C1.1 level in Italian.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- can choose the right verbal mood and tense also in sentences and texts with a very complex syntactic structure;
- has a metalinguistic consciousness of the reasons for the choices; fluently and spontaneously express him/herself in Italian on different topics using a rich vocabulary;
- can compose written texts of different kinds (narrative, argumentative, informative) using a vocabulary and syntactic constructions charcateristic of written Italian;
- understands the meaning of different complex texts and analyze them syntactically and semantically;
- can follow, understand and reproduce the content of original oral texts in spoken Italian (radio and TV programs, news, debates, conferences, etc...)

Teacher

Evelina Valitutto

Study programmes containing that course