COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Making analogies
• Inviting someone to do something together
• Asking for an opinion
• Expressing surprise, relief, happiness, empathy
• Expressing doubts
• Asking to borrow
• Telling about a cultural or a linguistic accident
• Expressing opinions
• Expressing agreement and disagreement

• Asking for help
• Complain
• Expressing hope
• Expressing disapproval
• Expressing wishes
• Expressing a prohibition
• Asking for the cause
• Motivate
• Insist
• Making plans
• Expressing preferences

• Description of products
• Description of objects (material, usage, features)
• Asking/confirming an intention
• Explaining the cause
• Making a guess
• Expressing emotions and mood
• Expressing fear
• Expressing a condition
• Making a complaint
• To forgive / to justify yourself
• To blame

GRAMMAR

• Trapassato prossimo
• Prima di + infinitive
• Verb Dovere to express a hypothesis
• Pronomi combinati
• Negative prefix in-

• Past conditional to express an unfulfilled wish
• CI – NE
• Some pronominal verbs
• Possessive pronouns

• Past subjunctive
• Subjunctive review
• Tenses and moods correlations
• Suffix -accio
• A patto che, purchè, a condizione che + subjuntive

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Different means of communication and appropriate language
• Making comparisons
• Giving an explanation
• Starting a conversation on the phone
• Offering help and availability
• Asking about a person
• Reporting an error
• Reporting what somebody else said
• Transcribing a message left by a person

• Telling the plot of a book
• Expressing interest/disinterest/ preference
• Suggestions
• Giving advice
• Asking for reason and explaining
• Giving an opinion

• The family and social changes
• Introducing a new topic with a question
• Participating in a discussion
• Asking for confirmation and confirm
• Comment a statistic
• Expressing the consequences of a fact
  • Advantages and disadvantages of a condition

GRAMMAR

• Imperfetto Subjunctive
• Come se + subjunctive
• Indirect speech
• Verbs andare and venire in an indirect speech

• Che io sappia
• Tenses and moods correlation
• Passive voice with Essere and Venire
• Passato remoto
• The historical present tense (narrative present)

• Sebbene, nonostante, malgrado, benché + subjunctive ,
• Anche se + indicative
• Special comparatives and superlatives
• Fare + infinitive
• Impersonal form of a reflexive verb (ci si)

• Holidays
• Expressing the lack of desire to do something
• Explaining the reason of a dissent
• Making fun of something
• Expression of irony
• Reminding a promise
• Expressing preferences
• Telling about an embarrassing experience
• Giving advice
• Hypothesize
• Talking about one’s behavior in certain situations

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Italians in history
• Telling the life of an historical figure
• Telling a journey
• Expressing disbelief

• Discover Italy
• Asking a question indirectly
• Asking about the characteristics of a place
• Asking and giving information
• Asking for confirmation
• Report what another person said
• Report the beauties of a place
  • Expressing disappointment

GRAMMAR

• Adverb Mica
• Past conditional as future in the past
• Hypothetical sentence secondo tipo (possibility)

• Modal and temporal gerund
• Adjectives in -bile
• Loro with an impersonal function
• Position of pronouns with gerund

• Indirect interrogative sentence
• Indirect speech with the main clause in the past tense
• Prima di – Prima che

COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT

• Italian language today
• Talking about linguistic and cultural mistakes
• Expressing irony
• Soften and invite to soften the tone of a discussion
• Expressing a strong disagreement
• Making assumptions in the past
• Talking about language learning

• General Review

GRAMMAR

• Passive voice with Andare
• Subjunctive past perfect
• Hypothetical sentence (terzo tipo) in the past
• Past gerund
• Past infinitive
• Dopo + past infinitive

Short 5 weeks course aimed at improving our students’ conversational skills on everyday topics.

No books required.

Classes are 90 minutes long.

We have both IN PERSON and ONLINE group options.

To join this group, students must have completed our regular Intermedio 3 course or demonstrate an equivalent level.

Online classes to understand Italian news, designed for students who want to sharpen their fluency, debate real-world issues, and expand their cultural awareness through more complex materials.

Meet every other week with Francesca.

No book required.

Join us for a one-hour weekly journey through Italian history, exploring a different period and theme each week. This course offers a dynamic and engaging overview of Italy’s rich and complex past — from pre-Roman civilizations to contemporary Italy.

Through carefully prepared presentations, each lesson includes readings, images that tell stories, timelines, maps, and interactive quizzes to deepen understanding and encourage discussion.

This course is ideal for students who want to deepen their understanding of Italian culture through history, gaining context that enriches language learning and cultural awareness.

LEVEL: Intermedio and up.