Italian for complete beginners

This Italian for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to

The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills)

the students will cover the following practical "survival skills":

• Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
• Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
• Travelling
• Booking a hotel and checking in
• Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
• Asking for and understanding directions
• Going shopping
• Complaining and apologising
• Arranging to meet
• Telephoning - Leaving a message - Taking a message

Course Objectives

This is a summary of the objectives for this Italian course for complete beginners. 

Sociolinguistic Appropriateness

To be able to establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of greetings, farewells, introductions, saying please, thank you, sorry etc.

Listening Comprehension (LC)

To be able to follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Reading Comprehension (RC)

To be able to understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.

Spoken Interaction (SI)

To be able to interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair.

Spoken Production (SP)

To be able to produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.

Written Interaction (WI)

To be able to ask for or pass on personal details in written form.

Written Production (WP)

To be able to write simple phrases and sentences about themselves and imaginary people, where they live and what they do.

About the teacher

Giulia started teaching Italian as a Foreign/Second Language in 2010. She holds a Master’s degree in Foreign Languages for International Communication from the University of Trieste (Italy) and a DITALS Certificate for Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language from University of Siena. She is also a certified examiner for CELTA oral exams (University of Perugia). Giulia joined Languages Unlimited in May 2016 and has been since teaching to groups in a corporate environment (elementary level) and individuals on a one-to-one base (upper-intermediate) as well as preparing students for CELI 3 (B2) examinations. Before coming over to Dublin, Giulia has earned extensive experience in teaching Italian as a Second and Foreign language both in Italy and abroad (Croatia and Turkey), in public and private schools and to individuals. Giulia has also been a volunteer teacher of Italian for refugees and immigrants in Italy and has experience in teaching at all levels and age groups and for all purposes. She has also been an assistant teacher of English in a Vocational High School in Turkey.  

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