advanced Italian Courses in Auckland & Wellington (C1)

Learn Italian in Auckland and Wellington with our fun immersion Advanced Italian language courses (C1) taught by experienced professional Italian teachers from Italy. In this Italian C1 Language Course you will learn to have conversations in Italian, read articles and news in Italian, discuss detailed information and talk about areas of personal interest. Furthermore every lesson will include something about Italian Culture and People.

In theAdvanced Italian C1 language courses students will understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects,showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices

Our Italian Language Course Program follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and ranges from Level A1 to C2..

The C1 Italian level is broken in to Advance Italian 1-3 (C1.1 -C1.3)

Italian Course objectives for C1 are :

• Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning.
• Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
• Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
• Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Listening Skills:

• You can understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly.
• I can understand television programmes and films without too much effort.

Reading Skills:

• You can understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style.
• You can understand specialised articles and longer technical instructions, even when they do not relate to my field.

Speaking Skills:

• You can express myself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
• You can use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes
• You can formulate ideas and opinions with precision and relate my contribution skilfully to those of other speakers.
• You can present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.

Writing Skills:

• You can express myself in clear, well- structured text, expressing points of view at some length.
• You can write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what you consider to be the salient issues.
• You can select style appropriate to the reader in mind.

Learning Activities and Teaching Methods:

• Immersion language learning, Interactive lectures, multi-media techniques (audio/video/information technology), discussion with class participation, group/pair work

Optional Course Textbook:

• Marin, T., & Magnelli, S. . Nuovo progetto italiano 3 (2009): Corso multimediale di lingua e civiltà italiana: Livello elementare (B2-C1). Roma: Edilingua. - Readily available at online bookstores and downloadable pdfs...

Duration:

• Each evening course is made of 8 x 1 1/2 hour weekly classes running for over 2 months at the same time and day of the week as its listed course start date. There are no classes on Public holidays.

Benefits of taking your Italian courses with the Italian Institute:

• You will learn Italian with qualified and experienced professional Italian teachers from Italy
• Progress in a friendly Italian immersion environment
• Benefit from a small class sizes which maximises your student and teacher interactions
• Follow a structured curriculum following the Common European Framework of Reference A1-C2 (CEFR - www.coe.int)
• Work toward internationally recognised exams (Celi, Cils, Plida, & AIL)
• Use the recommended Nuovo Progetto Italiano textbooks used in Universities worldwide including Victoria University, University of York, Oxford, Latrobe, Brown, MIT...
• Back up your learning with resources from our media-library

Italian School Locations:

• Auckland Central - Outhwaite Hall, 53 Carlton Gore Road, Grafton
• North shore - Northcote Memorial Hall, 2 Rodney St, Northcote
• Hamilton - TBC
• Wellington - Aro Valley Community Centre, 48 Aro Street, Wellington
• Wellington - Aro Valley Community Hall, 48 Aro St, Wellington (Closed for renovation)

Price:

• $190 includes 8 weekly classes, an expert teacher from Italy, free course materials and small class sizes. There are no hidden membership fees or contracts.

Italian courses start all year round - Enrol today!

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Italian courses for Advanced 1 (C1.1), Advance 2 (c1.2) & Advance 3 (c1.3)

Advance Italian 1 (C1.1): Nuovo progetto Italiano 3 (Chapters): 1-8

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Advance Italian 2 (C1.2): Nuovo progetto Italiano 3 (Chapters): 9-16

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Advance Italian 3 (C1.3): Nuovo progetto Italiano 3 (Chapters): 17-25