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
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
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
Jan 7 to Feb 4 (5 WKS)
T 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Teacher: Gianna (ONLINE) - Elementare 1 Session 2 (this group will cover the second half of this level's program)
$190/term
Jan 11 to March 15 (10 WKS)
SA 09:00 am - 11:00 am PST
Teacher: Dario (IN PERSON)
$400/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 1-2-3
Reading book
Elementare 2
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
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
Feb 11 to March 11 (5 WKS)
T 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Teacher: Gianna (ONLINE) - Elementare 2 Session 1 (this group will cover the first half of this level's program)
$190/term
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 4-5-6
Reading book
Elementare 3
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
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
TEXTBOOK
Book (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 2 Chapters 7-8-9
Elementare 4
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
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
Conversazione Elementare
PICK A DATE AND REGISTER
Short 5 weeks course aimed at improving our students’ conversational skills on everyday topics.
No books required.
Classes are 90 minutes long.
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 21st to September 28th 2025
Term 4
October 6th to December 14th 2025
