ITAL 1270 - Elementary Italian 2 Credit Hours: 4.00 (5 contact hrs) This course continues students’ development of Italian language and culture by building and expanding on the culture, vocabulary and language structures learned in ITAL-1260. 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.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: ITAL-1260 or two or more years of high school Italian
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:
- Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
- Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
- 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):
- Talk about music, theater and cinema.
- Talk about leisure activities.
- Refer to people and things that have already been mentioned.
- Narrate and describe memories of events.
- Talk about holidays, traditions and celebrations.
- Recount childhood and adolescent experiences and recall childhood friends.
- Talk about social and cultural events.
- Talk about ordering a meal in a restaurant.
- Talk about grocery shopping, quantities, preparing meals.
- Discuss likes and dislikes.
- Talk about professions and internships.
- Talk about things we had done.
- Talk about vacations and taking trips.
- Discuss methods of transportations and Make hotel or rooms reservations.
- 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:
- Use vocabulary when speaking.
- Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
- Use vocabulary in writing.
- 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:
- Conjugate present and past of Piacere.
- Use of partitives.
- Use and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns.
- Use and conjugate regular & irregular past tenses (imperfect and present perfect).
- Use prepositions, adverbs and ci and ne.
- Use impersonal forms.
- Conjugate future tense.
- Use direct, indirect, and double pronouns.
- 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:
- Recognize Italian favorite foods and drinks and special dishes of various regions; Italian holidays and traditions and the function of the media.
- 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.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE Week 1 Review of ITAL-1260
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 Associate Dean Ternullo, Annette
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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