ITAL 1470 - Elementary Italian 2

Credit Hours: 4.00

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. Discuss daily routine
   2. Discuss health and doctor visits.
   3. Refer to people and things that have already been mentioned.
   4. Narrate and describe memories of events.
   5. Discuss house description and doing chores
   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. Express plans and intentions.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use vocabulary beyond Elementary Italian 1.

Objectives: Regarding topics such as grocery shopping, restaurants and food, daily routine, health, housig , 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. Apply Adverbs
2. Apply the passato prossimo with avere
3. Apply the passato prossimo with essere
4. Use of partitives and expressions of quantity
5. Apply trapassato prossimo
6. Apply reflexive verbs
7. Apply reflexive and recipricoal reflexive verbs in the passato prossimo
8. Use and conjugate regular & irregular past tenses (imperfect and present perfect).
9. Use prepositions, adverbs and ci and ne.
10. Use impersonal forms.
11. Conjugate future tense.
12. Use direct, indirect, and double pronouns.
13. Apply the informal imperative Structure
14. Apply the formal imperative
15. Apply time expressions

 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  health system and dwellings.
2. Compare cultural differences.

1. Diaily routine
2. Health and doctor visits.
3. Refer to people and things that have already been mentioned
4. Discuss house description and doing chores
5. Recount childhood and adolescent experiences and recall childhood friends.
6. Talk about social and cultural events
7. Talk about ordering a meal in a restaurant.
8. Talk about grocery shopping, quantities, preparing meals.
9. Discuss likes and dislikes
10. Express plans and intentions.
11. Adverbs
12. The passato prossimo with avere
13. The passato prossimo with essere
14. Use of partitives and expressions of quantity
15. Apply trapassato prossimo
16. Apply reflexive verbs
17. Apply reflexive and recipricoal reflexive verbs in the passato prossimo
18. Use and conjugate regular & irregular past tenses (imperfect and present perfect).
19. Use prepositions, adverbs and ci and ne.
20. Use impersonal forms.
21. Conjugate future tense.
22. Use direct, indirect, and double pronouns.
23. Informal imperative Structure
24. Formal imperative
25. Time expressions
26. Recognize Italian favorite foods and drinks and special dishes of various regions; Italian  health system and dwellings.