ITAL 120S – Elementary Italian Language & Culture
A1.2 level (CEFR)

At A Glance
Credits: 6
Prerequisites: None
Contact hours at Università per Stranieri: 72
Contact hours at the Umbra Institute: 8
Co-curricular cultural activities: 20 
Language of instruction: Italian

Course Description
This is a 4-week elementary Italian course offered as part of the Summer Intensive Italian Language & Culture Program. “False beginners”, i.e. students who have some familiarity with the Italian language through exposure at home or who have studied Latin or other Romance language, or students with one semester of college-level Italian might place at the second stage of the A1 Elementary level based on the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) and receive a total of 6 credits for their studies in Italian language, culture, and conversation.

Students will be enrolled at the prestigious Universita’ per Stranieri di Perugia and study alongside international students representing over 100 countries. The in-class language instruction conducted at the Università per Stranieri is supplemented by tutorials and workshops at the Umbra Institute and a rich series of cultural co-curricular activities by Umbra faculty at the Umbra Institute. For more information about the Universita per Stranieri click here.

Course Objectives
The objective of the course is to train students to understand and create frequently used sentences and expressions related to environments of immediate relevance (for example, basic information on people, families, purchases, local geography, study, and work). After successfully completing this level students will be capable of communicating in routine situations, providing simple and appropriate descriptions of their personal experience referring to immediate needs.

Weekly Course Structure
Language Class (at UniStrPG):   12 hours
Skills Development Lab (at UniStrPG):    4 hours
Pronunciation & Spelling (at UniStrPG):   2 hours
Tutorial & Workshops  (at the Umbra Institute): 2 hours
Co-Curricular Activities (Outside of Classroom) 3+ hours 

Prerequisites
False beginners of one semester of college-level Italian and Placement Test.

Outcomes
 After successfully completing this level students will be capable of communicating in routine situations, providing simple and appropriate descriptions of their personal experience referring to immediate needs.

Activities at the Umbra Institute
Students enrolled in the Summer Intensive Italian Language & Culture Program will have access to Umbra Faculty members beyond their private and group tutoring session during a vast series of cultural activities designed to improve their language speaking skills in a natural environment while introducing them to practices of daily life and the cultural offerings of Central Italy. These activities include the following:

• Traditional welcome dinner;
• Tandem nights with Italian university students;
• Day-Trip in Umbria or Tuscany 
• “Serate in cucina”- cooking with faculty members or local experts;
• Trips to local festivals (e.g., typical Central Italian “sagre”, Perugia 1416);
• Guided tours of Perugia and Assisi;
• Visit to local winery with tastings;
• Lecture series on historical and current topics of Italian culture;
• Outdoor Cinema nights and live musical performances in Italian;
• Farewell Festa

A final co-curricular activities series schedule will be provided during orientation.

Main Grammatical Structures Covered

Ripasso degli argomenti tratti in ITAL 110S (A1.1) poi
Nomi

• Alcuni nomi invariabili caffè, cinema
• Alcuni nomi di origine straniera film, sport, social network
• I principali nomi generalmente utilizzati al plurale spaghetti, pantaloni, occhiali
• Alcuni nomi con il plurale irregolare

Articoli

• Uso dell’articolo in espressioni di tempo
• Omissione dell’articolo in alcune espressioni di tempo 
• Uso dell’articolo per esprimere una data

Aggettivi

• Aggettivi numerali cardinali da 100 a 1000

Pronomi

• Pronomi riflessivi mi, ti, si 
• Pronome riflessivo reciproco 
• Pronomi personali indiretti mi, ti

Verbi

• Indicativo presente dei verbi ad alta frequenza
• regolari (con particolare riferimento a tutte e tre le
• persone singolari e al noi)
• Indicativo presente di alcuni verbi irregolari 
• Indicativo presente dei verbi modali 
• Forme dell’indicativo presente del verbo costare 
• Indicativo presente del verbo impersonale piovere (III pers. sing.)
• Indicativo presente del verbo vedersi 
• Mi piace/mi piacciono + nome (singolare o plurale)
• Mi piace + infinito
• Verbo averci + lo nelle forme ce l’ho; ce l’abbiamo in risposta alla domanda Hai…/ Avete…?

Preposizioni

• a (termine) 
• a (tempo) 
• a (stato luogo) 
• a (moto a luogo) 
• in (tempo)
• + stagione (colleghi)
• in (moto a luogo) 
• in (mezzo) 
• con (compagnia) 
• per (vantaggio) 
• per (moto a luogo) 
• fra + indicazioni di tempo 
• Davanti a 
• Vicino a 
• Lontano da 

Avverbi (e locuzioni avverbiali)

• di modo 
• di luogo 
• di tempo 
• di quantità

Congiunzioni

• semplici