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Where do I fit in?
Let me know which class you'd like to try first!
Know that I offer classes in 5-week sessions, but you are welcome to jump in anytime. If a class seems troppo facile or troppo
difficile puoi sempre cambiare gruppo. Ecco la lista delle lezioni e piu' o meno cosa hanno studiato:
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Italiano
I (Beginners) This is what we cover:
Week 1: Pronunciation. Useful questions and answers. Numbers. I would like (=Vorrei).
Week 2: Review of 1st week. New vocabulary. Singular and plurals.
Week 3: Learning the article: a + vocabulary word + adjective. Describing pictures,
people and things.
Week 4: Telling time, days of the week, months of the year. What's the weather like?
Recognizing adverbs and learning how to conjugate verbs.
Week 5: Review of verbs. Food items and role-play ordering from a menu.
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Italiano
I-b (Libro I) A good review of all the above, plus more practice with verb conjugations and the
adverbs [abbastanza, meglio, presto, spesso, ecc...]. We will do the idioms using "to have" [i.e., avere fame, sete, ecc...],
many useful expressions, and an introduction to the irregular verbs [andare, venire, fare, dare, dire...].
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Italiano I-c We
will continue with our verbi irregolari, delve into some role-play, ask and answer questions while working on some of the
most useful verbs in the Italian language: piacere; potere, dovere, and volere.
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Italiano
II (Libro II) know all of the above, getting more comfortable with the language, more vocabolario, espressioni, and
practice with verbs.
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Italian
II-b (Libro II-p.15) all of the above, plus learning more challenging vocabulary, additional grammar, sentence
structure being practiced again and again to generate confidence in their ability to understand and converse. They have done
the "passato prossimo" with avere and essere; are familiar with he difference between the two Italian verbs used to translate
<to know> and the difference between <tempo> and <volta>; i verbi "piacere" [mi piace, ti piace...], "potere" (to be able, can) and
"dovere" (to have to, must) have been added. They have been introduced to the "da or duration form" (abito a Denver
da 23 anni), the articulated prepositions (nella, dei, sul, ecc.) and the possessives (il mio, i miei, la tua, ecc.).
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Italiano
III (Libro III-p.5) all of the above plus they are much more comfortable using the past tense (passato prossimo)
of verbs using both avere and essere as the helping verb: ho mangiato, ho comprato, sono andata, sei stata, ecc...
Have done role-play with clothes and shopping. They have been using the possessive and the articulated preposizioni
[al, della, agli, sullo,...], the present and past gerundio [sto mangiando, stavo dormendo,...] and are slowly starting
to acquire a taste for the imperfetto [mangiavo, lavoravo, ecc...]. They have been briefly introduced to reflexive verbs
and have had some practice with the ordinal numbers and the command form.
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Italian
IV-b (Libro IV-p.23): all of the above, plus reciprocal verbs, body
parts, and all the direct & indirect object pronouns. Have started to comfortably use the futuro, the conditional, the
imperativo, and the subjunctive. They love speaking in italiano without any prompting on my part!
