PROFICIENT USER - C1
Learn to understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. In this course, you will be able to express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
You will learn how to use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
You will also be able to produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
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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C1.4
Price:
Time:
6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Early Bird Price (14/04/25): $382 per 20 hours
Full Price: $450 per 20 hours
Duration:
29/4/25
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1/7/25
Discounted Price: $405 per 20 hours
Course Topics:
Unit 9: women of Italy;
Unit 10: Italian language changes
Grammar:
Hypothetical period with an implicit hypothesis, connectors in the construction of the hypothetical sentence, the pleonastic value of non, some discursive signals, idiomatic superlatives, some pronominal verbs, imperative mode in the indirect speech.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
read texts, listen and comprehend audio-visual sources on the topic of women and employment in Italy, women’s rights, some prominent female figure who made Italian history, how Italian language changes in an epoch of globalisation and social media.
analyse and comprehend statistics on the topic of women’s employment in Italy, talk about how a language changes within its social and political context, talk about new Italian idiomatic expressions and new Italian words.
express their opinions on the topic of women’s employment, working conditions and rights for women, make hypotheses and suggest ways to improve the analysed social conditions, express their opinions on the use of new words, idiomatic expressions and discursive signals, supporting their opinions through contextualised examples.
Textbooks: Maria Balì and Irene Dei, Nuovo espresso 5. Libro dello studente e esercizi. Corso di italiano C1. Con CD-Audio: C1 (Firenze: Alma, 2017). Units 9-10.