Classes
Level C1/C2Advanced
For confident Italian speakers who want to consolidate their oral fluency, idioms and grammar knowledge for social and professional purposes.
CLASSES - INTENSIVE
£
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Course length: 10 weeks, 30 hours
Classes a week: 2
Scheduled upon request
*All times are UK time zone
Classes a week: 2
Scheduled upon request
*All times are UK time zone
CLASSES - STANDARD
£
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Course length: 10 weeks /15 hours
Classes a week: 1
Schedule: Thu 12.30-14.00
*All times are UK time zone
Classes a week: 1
Schedule: Thu 12.30-14.00
*All times are UK time zone
ONE TO ONE LESSONS
£
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Lesson Duration: 1 hour
1 Lesson: £ 40
5 Lessons:£ 200 £ 180 (10% off)
10 Lessons:£ 400 £ 340 (15% off)
20 Lessons:£ 800 £ 600 (25% off)
1 Lesson: £ 40
5 Lessons:
10 Lessons:
20 Lessons:
SYLLABUS
SITUATIONS
- Expressing complex opinions emphatically
- Understanding contemporary narrative texts
- Describing nuanced emotions
- Expressing future views in the past
- Describing rules of a game and instructions
- Describing a musical genre
- Neologisms, idiomatic expressions to intensify adjectives
- Science in everyday life
- Identifying different genres from their style
- Understanding a legal text and bureaucratic jargon
- Using euphemisms
- Recognising the differences in the main regional accents
GRAMMAR
- Superlative using -arci, super, iper
- Past perfect tense
- Subjunctive to express exhortation, doubts and wishes
- Different use of simple future and conditional tense
- Passive form with Si
- Infinitive + Da e Per
- Idiomatic superlatives
- Partitive relative pronouns
- The use of inverted commas
- Implicit subordinate clauses
- Phrasal verbs
- Pronunciations
TOPICS
- Augmentative prefixes with verbs and adverbs
- Intensifiers
- Compound words
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Homographs
- Scientific vocabulary
- Nouns, adjectives and technical verbs
- Dialectical words
CULTURE
- Italian cinema
- Italian literature
- The Carnival
- The Opera
- Newspapers
- The Italian genius
- Roberto Benigni and the Mameli anthem
- Regional traditions