Basic Italian 2, A2Laajuus (3 cr)

Objective

  The student understands and uses orally and in writing the language at skill level A2. They understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance. They can communicate in simple and routine tasks. The student: knows how to greet people, introduce colleagues, say goodbye, and apologise can express feelings, opinions, and hopes is able to give simple information concerning people, professions, and work can talk about family, professions, and work knows cardinal and ordinal numbers, time, days, dates, months, and seasons is able to shop, order food and drinks, reserve a hotel room, and act as a host in restaurant can give short instructions, guide people can talk on the phone can talk about the weather, working day, past and future, hobbies can take notes, search for relevant information, fill in forms can talk about the target country and Finland (studying, economy, politics, etc.) can talk about education, student exchange can take part in a job interview     

Content

  The study unit contains communication situations and vocabulary at skill level A2. The language structures include: verbs: present tense, reflexive verbs, imperative, imperfect, perfect and past perfect tense, phrasal verbs adjectives: comparison (regular/irregular) articles: nominative, accusative and dative, negative article nouns: gender, plural, nominative, partitive prepositions: prepositions pronouns: personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and interrogative pronouns clauses: declarative sentences, direct questions,subordinate clauses numerals   

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Excellent (5), good (3–4), satisfactory (1–2), fail (0)