Main competencies:
- Communicating with the teacher and classmates
- Pronunciation and spelling
- Greeting, introducing yourself, and introducing another person
- Talking about free time and frequency of activities
- Talking about oneself, asking and answering questions
- Reading prices
- Ordering at a bar and restaurant
- Talking about holidays/vacations
- Expressing tastes and preferences
- Talking about one’s family
- Booking a hotel room
- Describing a city and giving simple directions
- Talking about past experiences
- Using vocabulary related to: greetings, numbers, days of the week, months, dates, weather, food and drinks, free time and holidays, family members, hotels, the city, daily routine, bars, restaurants, and supermarkets
Main grammar topics:
- Gender and number: masculine, feminine, singular, and plural nouns and adjectives
- Present tense of regular and irregular verbs
- Asking questions
- Definite and indefinite articles (a, an, the)
- Adverbs of frequency (always, often, sometimes, never)
- How to use the verb “to like” (piacere)
- How to use “there is” and “there are” (c’è/ci sono)
- Introduction to possessive adjectives (my, your, his/her)
- Passato prossimo (present perfect) of regular and main irregular verbs
