Course Description: This course provides a reinforcement and continuation of Italian language skills with a specific focus on communicative expression. It is appropriate for those who have completed our first two levels of Italian, as well as for new students who feel comfortable using the present and past tense. The main grammatical structures presented in this course will be the future tense, the imperfect past tense, and the conditional tense. Each lesson will include communicative and listening exercises and dialogues with the main focus of expanding vocabulary and developing fluency and self-expression. Language learning videos, films, and music will be used to facilitate learning.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Italian I and II or equivalent knowledge
Notes and Comments: Registration will begin August 11, 2008.
The required text for this course, Passo avanti in Italiano: A Communicative Second Course by Morel and the workbook Quaderno di esercizi Passo Avanti, are available at the University of Virginia Bookstore.