Italian 2

Development of the knowledge of Italian as a foreign language at the level A2 according to the CEFL (2001):

Comprehension of standard written texts in common use.

The comprehension of standard oral texts marked with clear, natural pronunciation, which are used in predictable situations (television and radio news, discussions, debates).

Gradually gaining independent use of written and oral skills in common communication situations with clear communication purpose (narration, planning, description).

Study of civilization and cultural aspects of Italy.

During the process of gaining communication competence a special emphasis is put on the following language/grammar aspects:
- verb tense: use of the past tenses, future tenses, past perfect tense (forms and basic uses, contrastive aspects with Slovenian as L1)
- verbal mode: indicative, imperative, conditional (forms and basic uses, contrastive aspects with Slovenian as L1),
- some phrasal verbs (II),
- text coherence: use of basic connectors (II),
- syntax (II): understanding of approximately half of all types of subordinate clauses or syntactic patterns, active use of most frequent types from some groups of subordinate patterns.