2023/2024

Italian

Type: Optional course (faculty)

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Daria Grierson

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 60

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course has been designed for the students of the HSE University. The main goal of this course is to prepare students to use Italian language in basic life situations, which means to develop their communicative skills in Italian at the А2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in multiple contexts such as reading and listening comprehension, written and oral expression, communicative interaction. At the same time, the course is aimed at promoting autonomous learning, self-assessment, peer-correction and critical thinking.

Learning Objectives

• Development of general cultural competence.
• Formation and development of intercultural foreign-language communicative competence (level A2) on the European scale of CEFR foreign language proficiency.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Can ask and answer simple questions; Introduce itself, make request, give advice, make suggestion, expressing agreement/disagreement and make an offer; Communicate on daily topics such as daily routines, description of surrounding things, ordering food, shopping, travelling, asking direction etc.
• Students will learn words and expressions about food and become able to use them in situations such as doing groceries, ordering a meal at a restaurant, and cooking a meal according to a recipe. Students will be able to talk about their own eating habits.
• Students are able to describe their house
• Students are able to discuss their day plans, hobbies and leisure activities
• Students are able to discuss their weekends in past tense (passato prossimo)
• Students are able to plan a trip and discuss their holiday plans
• Students are able to describe their preferences in cinema and speak about the greatest Italian cinema stars
• Students are able to comunicate at supermarket and to speak about grocery shopping
• Students are able to talk about fashion and to comunicate at the clothes store
• Students can talk about the information resources they use
• Students are able to talk about music preferences and about contemporary Italian singer

Course Contents

• I and my family
• Italy and Italian language
• My house
• My day
• Weekends
• Holidays and weather
• Cinema
• In the supermarket
• Eating out
• Fashion and Shopping
• The media in Italy
• Music in my life

Assessment Elements

• Written speech control
  Current control of written speech is carried out in the following forms: production of a written text in accordance with the communicative task, performance of tasks for general / detailed understanding of the written text, lexical and grammatical tests on the material studied
• Oral speech control
  Current control of oral speech is carried out in the following forms: monologic and dialogic statements on the subject of the course, performance of tasks for general/detailed understanding of the sounding text.
• Assessment work
  Lexical-grammatical tasks within the topics studied in the module
• Final assessment work
• Exam
  Oral statement on the given topic

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 4th module
  0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Nuovo progetto italiano : corso multimediale di lingua e civilta italiana, Marin, T., 2017
• Nuovo progetto Italiano 1 : corso multimediale di lingua e civilta Italiana, Marin, T., 2009

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Говорим по - итальянски : учеб. пособие, Буэно, Т., 2007