INDEPENDENT USER - B1
Learn to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
In this course, you will learn how to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
You will be able produce simple connected texts on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
You will also learn how to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Course Sub-Levels
Each language level is divided into multiple sublevels, which can be further broken down into smaller stages to ensure a gradual and comprehensive learning process.
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B1.1 Monday 10AM-12PM
Price:
Time:
10:00 am
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12:00 pm
Early Bird Price (29/09/25): $382 per 20 hours
Full Price: $450 per 20 hours
Duration:
13/10/25
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15/12/25
Discounted Price: $405 per 20 hours
Course Topics:
Unit 1: learning a language;
Unit 2: life in the city.
Grammar:
Revision of previous contents, past perfect tense, prima di + infinitive, the verb dovere to express a hypothesis, combined pronouns, past conditional, possessive pronouns, ci and ne, some pronominal verbs.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
read texts, listen and comprehend audio-visual sources on the topic of language learning, cultural differences, historical information of a city, city life.
invite someone to do something together, borrow something, express doubts, make analogies, talk about cultural incidents, express their opinions, agree and disagree on something, ask for help, complain, express hope and disagreement, forbid something, insist on something, make plans, indicate the geographical position of a place.
Textbooks: Maria Balì and Irene Dei, Nuovo espresso 3. Libro dello studente e esercizi. Corso di italiano B1. Con CD-Audio: B1 (Firenze: Alma, 2017). Units 1-2.
B1.1 Monday 6PM-8PM
Price:
Time:
6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Early Bird Price (29/09/25): $382 per 20 hours
Full Price: $450 per 20 hours
Duration:
13/10/25
-
15/12/25
Discounted Price: $405 per 20 hours
Course Topics:
Unit 1: learning a language;
Unit 2: life in the city.
Grammar:
Revision of previous contents, past perfect tense, prima di + infinitive, the verb dovere to express a hypothesis, combined pronouns, past conditional, possessive pronouns, ci and ne, some pronominal verbs.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
read texts, listen and comprehend audio-visual sources on the topic of language learning, cultural differences, historical information of a city, city life.
invite someone to do something together, borrow something, express doubts, make analogies, talk about cultural incidents, express their opinions, agree and disagree on something, ask for help, complain, express hope and disagreement, forbid something, insist on something, make plans, indicate the geographical position of a place.
Textbooks: Maria Balì and Irene Dei, Nuovo espresso 3. Libro dello studente e esercizi. Corso di italiano B1. Con CD-Audio: B1 (Firenze: Alma, 2017). Units 1-2.
B1.2 Tuesday 6PM-8PM
Price:
Time:
6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Early Bird Price (29/09/25): $382 per 20 hours
Full Price: $450 per 20 hours
Duration:
14/10/25
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16/12/25
Discounted Price: $405 per 20 hours
Course Topics:
Unit 3: made in Italy;
Unit 4: language of the media.
Grammar:
Review of previously covered material, including the subjunctive mood; expressions such as a patto che, purché, and a condizione che followed by the subjunctive; use of adverbs; the imperfect subjunctive; and the use of andare and venire in indirect speeches.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
read texts, listen and comprehend audio-visual sources on the topic of design and fashion.
igiving opinion about fashion and design, be able to do complains in a formal context, talking about socila media and the use of social media, understand coomon italian gestures with their meanings.
Textbooks: Maria Balì and Irene Dei, Nuovo espresso 3. Libro dello studente e esercizi. Corso di italiano B1. Con CD-Audio: B1 (Firenze: Alma, 2017). Units 3-4.
B1.5 Wednesday 6PM-8PM
Price:
Time:
6:00 pm
-
8:00 pm
Early Bird Price (29/09/25): $382 per 20 hours
Full Price: $450 per 20 hours
Duration:
15/10/25
-
17/12/25
Discounted Price: $405 per 20 hours
Course Topics:
Unit 9: exploring Italian heterogeneity;
Unit 10: Italian language today.
Grammar:
Revision of previous contents, indirect interrogative sentences, indirect speech with main clause at past tense, prima che – prima di, the passive form with the verb andare, plusquamperfect subjunctive, hypothetical period of the third type (non-reality in the past), past gerundive, past infinitive, dopo + past infinitive.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
read texts, listen and comprehend audio-visual sources about Italian regional territorial differences, regional cultural differences, Italian language today, some common mistakes, ‘appropriate’ and ‘inappropriate’ Italian grammar.
ask indirect questions, ask information regarding the characteristic of a specific place, talk about the attractions of a place, discuss their own linguist mistakes.
express their opinions regarding places of interest in Italy and abroad, interest/lack of interest/ for places, make irony, refer what someone else said, make hypotheses in the past, reflect on the process of learning a language
Textbooks: Maria Balì and Irene Dei, Nuovo espresso 3. Libro dello studente e esercizi. Corso di italiano B1. Con CD-Audio: B1 (Firenze: Alma, 2017). Units 9-10.