You can speak Italian with some confidence. You can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics. You can have a conversation with native speakers with ease, fluency and spontaneity.
Program Structure
Register to a pre-avanzato sub-levels:
Pre-avanzato 1
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Telling an event
- Talking about habits related to school memories
- Description of a teacher, a classmate, a course, a school
- Expressing agreement/disagreement
- Expressing regret
- Showing amazement and disbelief
- Admitting something
- Criticizing an opinion or a statement
- Talking about food
- Talking about taste
- Expressing a preference
- Description of a dish
- Describing a procedure in detail
- Reporting information
- Expressing percentages/statistics and commenting on them
- Framing a fact in a past century
- Reporting an event or a historical fact
- Expressing and discussing your point of view in informal contexts
GRAMMAR
- Use of the auxiliary verbs ESSERE or AVERE in the Passato Prossimo
- Verbs with double auxiliary in the Passato Prossimo
- Cavarsela and Entrarci
- Review of past tenses : passato prossimo, imperfetto, passato remoto
- Relative pronouns Chi, Ciò che
- Indefinite words
- Future perfect (Futuro anteriore)
- Subjunctive with indefinites
- Dislocation to the left (?) Dislocazione a sinistra
- Passive voice
- Verbs + prepositions
- Time indicators Allora, Un giorno
- Indirect speech introduced by di
- Use of conditional to express uncertain information
- Non perchè + subjunctive
- Indirect interrogative sentences
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 1-2-3
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Reading Book
Pre-Avanzato 2
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Talking about work
- Making a request and respond formally
- Talking clearly and politely in a formal situation
- Communicating a desire or an intention
- Exchanging complex information and advice about work
- Expression of emotions in formal and informal situations
- Talking about oneself
- Description of people
- Complaining
- Interviewing someone
- Film genres
- Expressing taste and preferences
- Telling the plot of a movie
- Review a movie
- Expressing criticism
GRAMMAR
- Use of subjunctive with relative sentences
- Use of subjunctive with relative superlative
- Difference between Finalmente and Alla fine
- Gerund with causal and hypothetical function
- Tense correlation: conditional with subjunctive
- Professions (feminine and masculine)
- Adjectives formed from nouns
- Use of the postponed possessive adjectives
- Uscirsene
- Use of possessive Proprio
- The formation of the opposite of nouns and adjectives
- Different ways to express SE in the hypothetical sentence
- Hypotheticals (irrealtà)
- Come se – Senza che + subjunctive
- Position of adjectives
- Subjuncive with the negative main clause
- Subjuntive with Purché
- Fare + infinitive
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Unfortunately we don't have available classes for this program. If you need more information, please contact us.
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 4-5-6
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Pre-Avanzato 3
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Visiting a museum
- Starting and ending a presentation
- Telling by specifying details
- Focusing on a specific part of the speech
- Description of an image
- Expressing agreement/disagreement
- Sustainable Italy
- Expressing an opinion and an evaluation
- Taking about environmental problems
- Making proposals
- Expressing wishes
- Curiosities about Italy
- Expressing doubts
- Explaining something
- Congratulate
- Asking and giving advice
GRAMMAR
- Prepositions In and A
- Subjunctive tenses correlation
- Infinitive used as a noun
- Relative pronouns
- Relative pronoun Il cui
- Relative pronoun Il che
- Position of pronouns with gerund, past participle, infinitive and imperative
- More about the position of the adjective
- Future (Different uses)
- Position of the adverbs
- Definite articles with geographic nouns
- Gerund present and past
- Some expressions with pronominal verbs : A dirla tutta, Sbrigarsela da soli, Arrampicarsi sugli specchi
- Homonyms
- Words with two plurals
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Dates
Day/time
Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapters 7-8-9
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Reading Book
Pre-Avanzato 4
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COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT
- Conducting an interview
- Contradicting a common opinion
- Discussing a topic
- General Review
GRAMMAR
- Subjuntive with comparative sentences
- Subjunctive with : In modo che, Far sì che
- Plural of compound words
- Use of Mica
- Some idiomatic expressions : Prendersela, Darci giù…
- Comparative of equality Tanto quanto
AVAILABLE CLASSES
Unfortunately we don't have available classes for this program. If you need more information, please contact us.
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TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
Nuovo Espresso 4 Chapter 10 + General review
Book 2 Grammar (optional)
Nuova Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana
Italiano con l'arte
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Are you in love with the Italian art?
If the answer is yes, this 90-minute course is perfect for you! Classes will focus on learning more about the Italian art while perfectioning your Italian language.
There will be 5 original and easy-to-read stories dedicated to a masterpiece of the Italian art, each one will be covered in 2 consecutive classes.
You can enroll in the entire course or just for few of the modular classes. If you want to enroll for only some classes, please contact italianschool@sfiis.org to receive a pro-rated invoice.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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Teacher
Price
TEXTBOOK
Book 1 (mandatory)
L'italiano per l'arte, Sara Porreca
Conversazione Pre-Avanzato
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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.
AVAILABLE CLASSES
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Day/time
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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, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 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, you will get a 15% discount on the second group's enrollment
PRIVATE CLASSES: if you are enrolled in a group, you can purchase private classes with a 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 8th to March 16th
Term 2
April 1st to June 8th
Term 3
July 22th to September 28th
Term 4
October 7th to December 14th
