Basic Italian 3, A2 (3cr)

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 well in everyday situations. The student: knows how to greet people, introduce colleagues, say goodbye and apologise, use small talk 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 about the weather, working day, past and future, hobbies can take notes, search for relevant information, fill in forms, and talk about e.g. their computer can talk about the target country and Finland (studying, economy, politics, etc.) can talk about education, student exchange, partner institutions can take part in a job interview 

Content

  The study unit includes communication situations and vocabulary at skill level A2. The language structures include: verbs: present tense, imperative, imperfect, perfect and past perfect tense,phrasal verbs, passive voice, conditional adjectives: comparison articles: nominative, partitive nouns: gender, plural 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)