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Continue developing your beginner Italian fluency and confidence with our Beginner Italian: A2.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Italian: A2.2 Course course or have approximately 140 hours of prior study. This course helps you strengthen your communication skills for everyday situations while deepening your understanding of Italian grammar and vocabulary, making it ideal for learners wanting to learn the Italian language for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.

You will learn to express satisfaction, surprise, and disappointment, inquire about travel details, interact online, and discuss eating habits and food preferences. Grammar is taught in context, including the imperfect tense of volere, sapere and conoscere in the past tenses, volerci and servire, and pronouns with the imperative (including irregular and negative forms). Vocabulary practice include il viaggio, andare in vacanza, tipi di vacanza, and la dieta mediterranea, helping you use beginner Italian more confidently and naturally in real-life situations.

DELIVERY MODE

Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: Microsoft Teams

TEXTBOOK

• Nuovo Espresso 2 (Alma Edizioni: 2014), ISBN: 9788861823211

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Showing willingness to listen to someone
• Expressing satisfaction with a proposal
• Voicing surprise and disappointment
• Finding out about something
• Inquiring about the duration of a journey
• Interacting on social media
• Expressing needs and opinions
• Talking about food and eating habits
• Commenting on the taste of food

Grammar

• Imperfect tense of volere
• Present Perfect and Imperfect tenses of sapere and conoscere
• Usage of Present Perfect and Imperfect tenses
• Verbs: volerci / servire
• Irregular and negative Imperative with Tu
• Pronouns with the Imperative mode

Vocabulary

• Il viaggio - Andare in vacanza - Tipi di vacanza
• Dieta mediterranea - Buon appetito!
• Serve / Servono
• Quello che - Volerci

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Communicate more naturally and expressively in everyday and social situations, including showing interest, expressing surprise or satisfaction, interacting on social media, and talking about food, travel, and personal opinions.
2. Use key grammar structures to discuss experiences and opinions in the past and present, including the imperfect tense of volere, the contrast between sapere and conoscere in the passato prossimo and imperfetto, and the use of volerci, servire, and pronouns with the imperative.
3. Broaden vocabulary and fluency, using new expressions related to travel, holidays, and the Mediterranean diet, and improving pronunciation and listening comprehension through practical communication tasks.