You can understand the Italian language used in everyday situations and you can have a basic conversation, only if the speaker speaks slowly and clearly. We will help you improve your skill, learning to talk about your likes/dislikes, your family and your routines, order a meal in a restaurant and go shopping.
Program Structure
Register to a elementare sub-levels:
Elementare 1
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Shopping
- Clothing
- Colors
- Expressing doubts
- Expressing taste and opinions
- Giving advice
- Asking for advice
- Comparisons
- Talking about memories
- Description of habits in the past
- Description of situations
- Physical and personality description
- Comparison between people personality
- Polite form
- Hypothetical sentence
- Making a proposal
- Giving advice
- Expressing wishes
GRAMMAR
- Piacere
- Indirect pronouns
- Troppo
- Questo/quello
- Informal Imperative (Tu)
- Comparative
- Imperfetto
- Imperfetto and Passato prossimo
- –CI
- Alterati (-ino and -one)
- ————-
- Né… né
- Verbs farcela, sapere, andarsene
- Comparison quanto/come
- Passato prossimo Cominciare and Finire
- Present conditional
- Qualcuno-nessuno
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
Jul 14 to Sept 21 (10 WKS) --- no class on 9/1
M 12:00 - 2:00 pm PT
Teacher: Jimmy (IN PERSON)
$400/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 1-2-3
Reading book
Elementare 2
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Accepting/rejecting a proposal
- Motivating a refusal
- Making an appointment
- Booking a play by phone
- Expressing surprise and disappointment
- Inquiring about something
- Asking about the duration of a trip
- Asking for the price
- Interactions on a social media
- Expressing needs
- Talking about food and eating habits
- Commenting the taste of food
- Expressing opinions
GRAMMAR
- Progressive form stare + gerundio
- Direct pronouns and avere (ce l ’ho)
- Agreement between direct pronouns and past participles
- Adverbs già / non… ancora
- Position of direct and indirect pronouns with infinitive verbs
- Relative pronouns che and cui
- Tranne
- Imperfetto VOLERE
- SAPERE e CONOSCERE Imperfetto and Passato prossimo
- Imperfetto vs Passato prossimo
- Volerci
- Quello che
- Irregular Imperative (tu)
- Negative Imperative (tu)
- Verb Servire
- Position of pronouns with the imperative (tu)
- Informal imperative (irregular verbs)
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 4-5-6
Reading book
Elementare 3
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Talking about health issues
- Description of symptoms
- Confirming a possibility
- Giving advice about health
- Giving advice about sport activities Talking about workout habits
- Trying to convince someone
- Talking about the future
- Talking about wishes and plans for the future
- Writing a letter for a job
- Suppositions
- Conditions
- Talking about work
- Apologize
- Telling a story
- Telling what happens in a specific moment
- Showing curiosity about a story and the person who tells the story
- Expressing disappointment
GRAMMAR
- Imperative (Lei and voi)
- Negative Imperative (Lei and voi)
- Position of pronouns with the imperative (Lei)
- Comparative and superlative of buono and bene
- Nouns in -tore and -ista
- Some nouns with irregular plural
- Futuro semplice
- Bisogna
- Metterci with the meaning avere bisogno di tempo
- Periodo ipotetico della realtà (se + present tense or future)
- Pronouns la and le
- Mentre/Durante
- Stare per + infinitive
- Passato prossimo of modal verbs
- VOLERE-DOVERE-POTERE
- Conjunctions però, quindi, perchè, mentre, quando
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
Jun 23 to Sept 22 (10 WKS) --- no classes on 7/21-8/6
M + W 5:00 - 6:00 pm PT
Teacher: Luigi (ONLINE)
$390/term
Jun 23 to Sept 22 (10 WKS) --- no classes on 7/21, 7/28, 8/4
M 6:30 - 8:30 pm PT
Teacher: Luigi (ONLINE)
$390/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 7-8-9
Reading book
Elementare 4
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Description of an apartment
- Expressing needs and wishes
- Being for or against specific subjets
- Comparisons
- General review
GRAMMAR
- The adjective Bello
- Present subjunctive (regular verbs)
- Present subjunctive (some irregular verbs)
- Usage of subjunctive to express necessity, hope, personal opinion
- Comparative più… di/che
- Adverb Magari
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapter 10 + General review
Reading book
"Piccole storie d'amore", Alessandro De Giuli, Ciro Massimo Naddeo
Jimmy - W 6:00 - 8:00 pm PT
Ripasso & Conversazione Elementare
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A review and conversation class designed for students who have completed the full ELEMENTARE block (up to and including ELEMENTARE 4).
This course offers a focused review of key grammar topics covered in the ELEMENTARE levels, while strengthening your conversation skills.
It’s the perfect bridge to ensure you’re fully prepared to transition confidently into INTERMEDIO 1 in the next Term.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2
Conversazione Elementare
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Short 5 weeks course aimed at improving our students’ conversational skills on everyday topics.
No books required.
Classes are 90 minutes long.
We have both IN PERSON and ONLINE group options.
To join this group, students must have completed our regular Elementare 3 course or demonstrate an equivalent level.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
PRICE
Prices are listed next to each group.
A 10$ nonrefundable registration fee will be automatically added at checkout.
Books are not included in the enrollment price.
DISCOUNTS
BRING A FRIEND: If you enroll with a friend (new to IIS), you both get a 10% discount
ENROLL IN 2 GROUPS: if you enroll in 2 groups in the same Term, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment (the less expensive)
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 10% discount
BULK REGISTRATION: if you enroll in 2 or more Terms at the same time, you will not pay the $10 registration fee and will get an additional 10% discount
To get these discounts, send an email to italianschool@sfiis.org
A 10$ nonrefundable registration fee will be automatically added at checkout.
Books are not included in the enrollment price.
DISCOUNTS
BRING A FRIEND: If you enroll with a friend (new to IIS), you both get a 10% discount
ENROLL IN 2 GROUPS: if you enroll in 2 groups in the same Term, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment (the less expensive)
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 10% discount
BULK REGISTRATION: if you enroll in 2 or more Terms at the same time, you will not pay the $10 registration fee and will get an additional 10% discount
To get these discounts, send an email to italianschool@sfiis.org
DURATION
Group Classes
from 5 to 10 weeks groups, different duration
Term 1
January 6th to March 16th 2025
Term 2
March 31st to June 8th 2025
Term 3
July 14th to September 21st 2025
Term 4
October 6th to December 14th 2025
