General Italian A2
Take your Italian further and start talking about past events and future plans.
About this course
Take your Italian further and start talking about past events and future plans. You will describe experiences, trips and childhood memories with the passato prossimo and imperfetto, make arrangements, manage travel, health and shopping situations, and give simple instructions.
Following the A2 level of the CEFR, the course combines clear grammar with frequent speaking and listening practice, so you can handle routine exchanges with confidence. You finish with an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Talk about past events and experiences using the passato prossimo and the imperfetto
- Describe past habits, places and people
- Make plans, arrangements and appointments using the future and the present
- Use direct and indirect object pronouns in everyday exchanges
- Handle common travel, health and shopping situations
- Give simple instructions and polite requests with the imperative
- Understand the main points of short, clear texts and recordings on everyday topics
- Write short emails, messages and descriptions
Curriculum
- The passato prossimo with avere and essere
- Irregular past participles
- Time expressions for the past
- Narrating a weekend or a trip
- The imperfetto
- Childhood and past habits
- Contrasting the passato prossimo and the imperfetto
- The futuro semplice
- The present tense for arrangements
- Making appointments
- Direct object pronouns
- Indirect object pronouns
- Pronouns with the passato prossimo
- Parts of the body and symptoms
- At the doctor and the pharmacy
- Giving advice with dovere and bisogna
- Booking a hotel
- At the station and the airport
- Handling problems and complaints
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Describing jobs and responsibilities
- Simple CVs and job advertisements
- Useful telephone and email phrases
- Informal and formal imperative
- Recipes and step-by-step instructions
- Polite requests
Who it's for
Adults who have completed A1 Italian, or reached the same level elsewhere, and want to handle everyday situations more independently.
Before you start
- Completion of General Italian A1 or an equivalent A1 level
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