📘Italian for Communication – Level A1

🎯General Objectives

ℹ️ By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
✅ Introduce themselves and greet in Italian in simple contexts.
✅ Ask and answer basic questions (identity, origin, profession, hobbies).
✅ Use common everyday expressions to interact.
✅ Read and understand simple sentences.
✅ Gain initial confidence in daily communication situations.

⏳Course Organization

🔹 Duration: 40 hours (10 weeks, 4h per week).
🔹 Methodology: communicative approach, role plays, dialogues, real-life situations, audio-visual support.
🔹 Target audience: complete beginners who want to learn Italian for travel, work, or study.

📍Detailed Program

Module 1: Discovering the Language and Basics
✅ Italian alphabet and pronunciation.
✅ Greetings and polite expressions.
✅ Introducing oneself: name, age, nationality, profession.

Module 2: Family and Social Relations
✅ Talking about family and relatives.
✅ Expressing likes and preferences.
✅ Definite and indefinite articles.

Module 3: Daily Life
✅ Ordering in a café or restaurant.
✅ Shopping and asking for prices.
✅ Basic conjugation in the present tense (essere, avere, regular verbs).

Module 4: Time, Places, and Directions
✅ Asking and telling the time.
✅ Describing home, city.
✅ Asking for directions and using prepositions.

Module 5: Leisure and Activities
✅ Talking about hobbies and free-time activities.
✅ Expressing desires and near-future plans.
✅ Using modal verbs (potere, volere, dovere).

Module 6: Comprehension and Interaction
✅ Understanding simple dialogues (audio/video).
✅ Taking part in a basic conversation.
✅ Writing short messages and descriptions.

🎲Teaching Methods

🟨 Role plays and simulations.
🟨 Guided and free dialogues.
🟨 Interactive exercises (listening, videos, songs).
🟨 Pair and group work.
🟨 Gradual oral and written practice.

⚡Expected Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
⏺︎ Use basic expressions in everyday contexts.
⏺︎ Introduce themselves and interact simply with native speakers.
⏺︎ Read and understand short texts in Italian.
⏺︎ Ask and answer simple questions with confidence.