Syllabus and exercises
This is a breakdown of the learning objectives, grammar points and vocabulary areas covered plus interactive online exercises in Italian.
Episode 1
Objectives
- Introductions
- Saying hello and goodbye
- Asking and answering basic questions
- Ordering a drink
- Greetings
- Numbers 1-5
- More drinks
- Grammatical gender: masculine and feminine nouns
- Introduction to regular verbs: verbs in -are
- Verbs lavorare - 'to work', abitare - 'to live' (somewhere)
- Introduction to irregular verbs: essere - 'to be'
Episode 2
Objectives
- Saying where you're from
- How are you? Asking and replying
- How to say what you're having to drink
- Rooms in the house
- Nationalities
- Numbers 6-10
- How are you?
- Demonstrative adjectives: how to say 'this'
- Definite articles: how to say 'the' in the singular form
- Indefinite articles: how to say 'a/an'
- Regular verbs in -ere
Episode 3
- Numbers 11-19
- Quantities
- Plural endings: -i and -e
- Revision of verbs in -are
- Regular verbs in -ire
Episode 4
- The alphabet
- Directions
- Definite articles: how to say 'the' in the plural form
- Numbers 20-100
Episode 5
- Colours
- Fruit and vegetables
- Aches and pains
- Partitives: how to say 'some'
- Introduction to adjectives: agreement
- Irregular verbs: avere - 'to have'
Episode 6
- Days of the week
- Months
- Understanding departure and arrival times: the 24-hour clock
- Prepositions of time: da... a...
- Irregular verbs in -ire: venire - 'to come'
Episode 7
- Family members
- Telephone
- Formal Lei
- Possessive adjectives: mio/mia
- Possessive adjectives: tuo/tua, suo/sua
- More verbs in -ere: conoscere - 'to know'
Episode 8
- Jobs
- The hundreds: numbers 100 to 1000
- Irregular verbs in -are: fare
- Back-to-front verbs: piacere - 'to like'
Episode 9
- At the restaurant
- Food in a menu
- How to say 'there is/there are' - c'è/ci sono
- Ordinal numbers 1°-10°
- More verbs in -are: mangiare, 'to eat'
Episode 10
- Means of transport
- Revision: directions
- Modal verbs: potere
- Verbs conoscere and sapere
- Reflexive verbs: how to use verbs like lavarsi - 'to wash yourself'
Episode 11
- Hotel facilities / accommodation
- Hotel requests and complaints
- Irregular verbs in -are: andare, 'to go'
- Prepositions of place: in and a
- Articulated prepositions: nel/nella, al/alla
- Compound prepositions of place: how to say words like 'above' or 'below'
Episode 12
- Revision: useful phrases
- Revision: professions
- More regular verbs in -are and -ire: arrivare and partire
- Verbs: present tense
- Prepositions: time, place, movement
- Verbs, adjectives, possessives, etc
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