DESCRIZIONE DEL CORSO/STARTING POINT: This course is for Spanish, French, Portuguese speakers, or students who already studied Italian in the past, or understand some Italian, but never studied grammar, and want to learn how to speak correctly, learning pronunciation and grammar from the basics. It is a course for beginners who can proceed at a faster pace.

OBIETTIVI/OBJECTIVES: By the end of this course, students will know pronunciation rules, how to greet someone and introduce themselves, ask for information and describe their daily life, using the present tense. They will also be able to describe people and places using adjectives, talk about friends and leisure activities, express likes and dislikes, order at a restaurant, make hotel reservations, talk about prices, complains, describe and rent an apartment.

MATERIALE e ATTIVITÀ/MATERIALS & ACTIVITIES: Nuovo Espresso A1 (Libro dello studente ed esercizi), Alma Edizioni. (Unità 1-5).

Activities include reading, speaking, writing and listening comprehension exercises, video, songs and role playing.