Italian Beginner Course A1.1 (15 hours of frontal lessons)
| WEEK | CONTENT |
| Lesson 1 | Greeting people; introducing yourself; asking the meaning and translation of a word through the function “Che cosa significa? Or Come si dice?”Numbers 1-30. Alphabet, pronunciation of “C” and “G”. |
| Lesson 2 | Asking nationality and telephone number (informal). Numbers 1-100; asking and giving information about name, city and age (Informal). Present tense of essere and avere (to be, to have). |
| Lesson 3 | Asking nationality and telephone number (Formal). Asking and giving information about name, city and age (Formal). Present tense of andare and venire (to go, to come). |
| Lesson 4 | How to read a short Italian article. Nouns: gender and number (masculine, feminine, plural and singular), regular and few irregulars. Present tense of “andare” (to go). |
| Lesson 5 | How to book a room in a hotel. Asking prices and directions; numbers 100-1000; adjectives of nationality; present tense of regular verbs (-are, -ere, -ire).Vocabulary of hotel. |
| Lesson 6 | Revision of regular verbs and irregular verbs (essere, avere, andare). Asking and giving the time; introduction of definite and indefinite articles.Vocabulary revision. |
| Lesson 7 | Ordering in a bar. Indefinite articles; vocabulary of food and bar. Phonetic “s+ci/ce and s+schi/sche” |
| Lesson 8 | Talking about cinema, working places and professions. Present tense of verbs in -isco (capire, preferire, finire). |
| Lesson 9 | Definite articles. Talking and writing about a movie. |
| Lesson 10 | Revision |