Italian - Intermediate

Course code: LPXR205P

Subject area: Languages

Study level: Part Time

Course level: U

Course details

6:45pm - 8:45pm

Wednesday

23rd Sep 2020 - 7th Jul 2021

Oxford Adult Learning Cowley

Contact details

enquiries@abingdon-witney.ac.uk

01235 555 585

You will increase spoken confidence and improve listening skills in the main, with mini presentations and increased cultural awareness. You will also gain further knowledge of tenses including the conditional, past perfect and present subjunctive together with imperatives.

The topics that you will cover over this course are extensive and include;

Introductions and interviews
Revision of da + present
Revision of tenses passato prossimo and imperfetto
Talking about your favourite city
Making comparisons
Researching and describing famous Italians
Lifestyles – similarities and differences using adverbs
Opinions and complaints using relative pronouns
Revision of reflexive verbs
Use of present subjunctive to express opinions
Advantages and disadvantages of vegetarianism - use of impersonal si
Traffic problems, prepositions of place + imperatives
Polite requests using conditionals
Discussing work pros and cons comparatives and superlatives
The weather
The media
Health and welfare
Le feste Italiane
Watch Italian DVD’s

Please note there will be no teaching sessions on 28/10/2020, 23/12/2020, 30/12/2020, 06/01/2021, 17/02/2021, 07/04/2021, 14/04/2021, 21/04/2021, 02/06/2021.

Abingdon and Witney College is subject to Ofsted regulation and is required to work with all its students to make sure they understand Government initiatives around Safeguarding, Prevent and Fundamental British Values. Information on these matters will be shared with you during your course.

You will also be asked to complete monitoring paperwork, which helps us to deliver course content to the highest quality.

Italian - Highter Intermediate
For those of you who have completed beginners and improvers courses or 2 years of study approx. 100 hours of Italian. You will be familiar with the present passato prossimo
and imperfetto, together with an awareness of the future tense. You will be able to introduce yourself with ease and communicate on a range of issues but not fluently.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2020 prior to starting the course.

Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.

For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2020 prior to starting the course.
A textbook is used in this course and it is optional to buy it although we recommend students to purchase it as it is a good reference when working in the class and at home.

Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.

Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.

If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.

Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.

The 19+ full fee button displays the full fee that may apply. As the rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can also visit the Course Fees & Finance page by searching 'Fees and bursaries' at the top of the page.

16 - 18 Fee


19+ Fee

Tuition Fee: £250.80
Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £250.80


19+ Reduced Fee

Tuition Fee: £0.00
Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £0.00

As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. However, you will be asked to complete activities that demonstrate how you are progressing on your course.
The Intermediate course is designed with the idea of helping you develop your ability to understand, speak, read and write in Italian. The course is taught by a qualified Italian speaking teacher, using the most up-to-date teaching methods and a wide range of activities and material that adapts to different styles of learning. Course is very active and based on communication. There are not formal examinations but progress will be assessed throughout the course through activities and assessments to do at home and speaking activities done in class