Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, students should demonstrate an ability to:
1 communicate on familiar matters relating to work and free time, and sustain a short conversation in Italian, centred on themselves and incorporating accounts of past or future actions;
2 understand simple texts, deducing the meaning of unknown terms, and write descriptions or accounts of matters of personal significance involving a variety of grammatical structures (including pronouns and different tenses);
3 be in full control of all the structures covered in ITAL10020, as well as tenses (including the future, the compound perfect (passato prossimo), and the imperfect), clitic pronouns (direct and indirect objects) and the particles ne and ci;
4 construct coherent short texts of interlinked sentences using the present tense and an appropriate choice of imperfect or passato prossimo, and future or isolated conditional forms when appropriate.