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Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ITAL 1470 - Elementary Italian 2

Credit Hours: 4.00


Prerequisites: ITAL 1460 or two or more years of high school Italian

(formerly ITAL 1270)

This course continues students’ development of Italian language and culture by building and expanding on the culture, vocabulary and language structures learned in ITAL 1460. New language functions will be presented in meaningful activities that emphasize all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing and allow for further cultural exposure. Students are required to use computer based technology to practice these skills.

Contact Hours: 4
Billable Contact Hours: 4
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate competency in oral language skills beyond Elementary Italian 1.

Objectives:

  1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
  2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
  3. Engage in small conversations with a Native Speaker in the present, future, and past tense about the following topics (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker):
    1. Talk about music, theater and cinema.
    2. Talk about leisure activities.
    3. Refer to people and things that have already been mentioned.
    4. Narrate and describe memories of events.
    5. Talk about holidays, traditions and celebrations.
    6. Recount childhood and adolescent experiences and recall childhood friends.
    7. Talk about social and cultural events.
    8. Talk about ordering a meal in a restaurant.
    9. Talk about grocery shopping, quantities, preparing meals.
    10. Discuss likes and dislikes.
    11. Talk about professions and internships.
    12. Talk about things we had done.
    13. Talk about vacations and taking trips.
    14. Discuss methods of transportations and Make hotel or rooms reservations.
    15. Express plans and intentions.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate competency in basic oral language skills beyond Elementary Italian 1.

Objectives: Regarding topics such as traveling, grocery shopping, restaurants and food, social and cultural events, holidays and traditions, professions, childhood events and future plans:

  1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
  2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
  3. Use vocabulary in writing.
  4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use basic grammar structures beyond Elementary Italian 1 in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

  1. Conjugate present and past of Piacere.
  2. Use of partitives.
  3. Use and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns.
  4. Use and conjugate regular & irregular past tenses (imperfect and present perfect).
  5. Use prepositions, adverbs and ci and ne.
  6. Use impersonal forms.
  7. Conjugate future tense.
  8. Use direct, indirect, and double pronouns.
  9. Agreement between past participle and direct object pronouns.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of Italian culture beyond Elementary Italian 1.

Objectives:

  1. Recognize Italian favorite foods and drinks and special dishes of various regions; Italian holidays and traditions and the function of the media.
  2. Compare cultural differences.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  • 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  • 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
Week 1 Review of ITAL-1460

Capitolo 4: Che bello spettacolo in piazza!

Vocabulary & Communication:
Talk about music, theater and cinema
Talk about leisure activities

Grammar:
Direct Object pronouns
Simple Past with Avere

Week 2 Vocabulary & Communication:

Refer to people and things that have already been mentioned
Talk about past events

Grammar:
Simple Past with Essere
Agreement between past participle and direct object pronouns
Come si dice “how long”?

Reading and Writing Strategies and Activities

Week 3 Culture:

Nel cuore della regione: Umbria e Le Marche
Andiamo in piazza!
Angolo culturale
Video: Il cinema e la musica
Esamino scritto e orale sul capitolo 4

Week 4 Capitolo 5: Feste in piazza

Vocabulary & Communication:
Narrate and describe memories of events
Talk about holidays, traditions and celebrations
Recount childhood and adolescent experiences

Grammar:

Imperfect tense
Past tense and imperfect

Imperfect with modal verbs

Week 5 Vocabulary & Communication:

Recall childhood friends
Talk about social and cultural events

Grammar:

Adverbs
Indirect object pronouns
Come si dice “time/times”?

Reading and Writing Strategies and Activities

Week 6 Culture:

Nel cuore della regione: Toscana
Andiamo in Piazza!
Angolo culturale
Video: Ricordi d’infanzia

Week 7 Esamino scritto e orale sul capitolo 5

Review for midterm

Week 8 Midterm

Capitolo 6: Al ristorante della piazza con i colleghi

Vocabulary & Communication:
Talk about ordering a meal in a restaurant
Talk about grocery shopping, quantities, preparing meals
Talk about likes and dislikes

Grammar:

Partitives
Piacere (present and past)

Weeks 9 Vocabulary & Communication:

Talk about professions and internships
Talk about things we had done

Grammar:

Past Perfect
Come si dice “which”?
Reading and Writing Strategies and Activities

Week 10 Culture:

Nel cuore della regione: Emilia-Romagna
Andiamo in piazza!
Angolo culturale
Video: Al ristorante della piazza con amici e colleghi

Week 11 Esamino scritto e orale sul capitolo 6

Week 12 Capitolo 7: In vacanza tra piazze e bellezze naturali

Vocabulary & Communication:
Talk about vacations and taking trips
Discuss methods of transportations

Grammar:

Impersonal form
Future tense

Week 13 Vocabulary & Communication:

Express plans and intentions
Make hotel or rooms reservations

Grammar:

Double pronouns
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Come si dice “people”?

Reading and Writing Strategies and Activities

Week 14 Culture:

Nel cuore della regione: Sicilia e Sardegna
Andiamo in piazza!
Angolo culturale

Video: In vacanza

Week 15 Esamino scritto e orale sul capitolo 7

Ripasso per l’Esame Finale

Week 16 Esami Finali

First session: Written Exam
Second session: Oral Exam


Primary Faculty
Williams, Susanna
Secondary Faculty
Ramos, Maria
Associate Dean
Ternullo, Annette
Dean
Pritchett, Marie



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