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Key facts
| Type | Weekly Classes |
|---|---|
| Location | Reading |
| Address | Room 102 Building 22 London Road Campus Reading |
| Dates | Mon 1 Oct 2012 to Mon 18 Mar 2013 Day: Monday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 20 |
| Subject area(s) | Italian |
| CATS points | 20 |
| Fees | From £265.00 |
| Application status | Course ended |
| Course code | R12P413WEW |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
All the Department’s language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture and society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set. Choosing your level.Programme details
Week 1: Revision activities: IntroductionsWeek 2: Talking about holidays
Week 3: Expressing wishes and desires
Week 4: Reassuring, complimenting, expressing sorrow apologising
Week 5: Expressing surprise and asking questions
Week 6: Opening a bank account
Week 7: Complaining
Week 8: A bit of Italy: Describing cities
Week 9: Booking a hotel room
Week 10: Christmas quiz
Week 11: A bit of Italy: Florence and its buildings
Week 12: Asking and giving tourist information
Week 13: Fairytales
Week 14: Giving advice for keeping healthy
Week 15: How to keep young
Week 16: Sport
Week 17: Consolidation
Week 18: Making promises ….. and keeping them?
Week 19: In the news
Week 20: Easter quiz.
Background Reading:
Marin & Magnelli, The Italian Project 2A - Edilingua
Course aims
All the Department's language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture in society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set.Immerse yourself in Italian culture and develop everyday conversation, learn to express opinions and develop useful skills.
Assessment methods
Most tutors will set weekly assignments to consolidate learning and allow students to study at their own pace. Some of these assignments, which may include testing listening and speaking skills, will count towards formally assessing the students’ progress.At Stages 5 & 6, students can expect to be assessed on either one 1,000 word essay or two shorter ones written in the target language.
At lower stages, students are required instead to submit for assessment a range of exercises and/or shorter pieces of work.
Teaching methods
Language classes are kept small (typically 10-15 students) in order to ensure plenty of opportunities for interaction in the target language, leading to the development of listening and speaking skills, as well as an understanding of grammar.Teaching outcomes
The following are brief indicators of what students should be able to do in each of the skillsSpeaking (S), Listening (L), Reading (R), and Writing (W) by the end of the individual stages:
STAGE 3
S participate in simple prepared discussions
L understand simple recorded material
R understand the gist of magazine articles and simple texts
W write informal letters and descriptive paragraphs
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Third Terms
All language courses will be offered for a third term, commencing in April 2013. Enrolled students who wish to sign up for the third term will receive a discount of £45.00 to the full fee if they do so before December 1 2012. The full cost of the third term is £145.00; the reduced price is £100.00.
PLEASE NOTE - It is not possible to enrol online for the Third Term at the discount rate. Please use the pdf application form below, entering your choice of course as, for example, French 1a Third Term and send it to the Weekly Classes Office along with your payment.
Note that this should be done AFTER you have enrolled for the first two terms of the course.
Sorry, this course is not currently accepting applications. If you have any questions about this course, please use the course enquiry form.
Programmes including this module
This module can be studied as part of these programmes: