Unit 1
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Introducing yourself, saying where you are from and your age.
Vocabulary: means of transport; numbers.
Grammar: The verbs to be and to have in their singular forms; saying hello and goodbye. |
Unit 2
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Ordering something to eat.
Vocabulary: Food and drink.
Grammar: Present simple form of the verbs to be, to want, to do, to eat, to drink, to help; the plural forms of nouns; indefinite articles.
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Unit 3
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Talking about what you like doing
Grammar: Adverbs of frequency; present simple forms of regular -are verbs; definite articles.
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Unit 4
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Family and work
Vocabulary:
Family members and jobs
Grammar: Present simple forms of regular -ere verbs; possessive adjectives.
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Unit 5
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In a hotel
Vocabulary: Hotel.
Grammar:
Present simple forms of regular -ire verbs; descriptive adjectives.
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Unit 6
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In a hotel room
Vocabulary: Bedroom and Bathroom.
Grammar: There is / there are; irregular verbs - to go, to come, to want, to have to, to be able to; the imperative form. |
Unit 7
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Walking around the city and shopping
Vocabulary: Means of transport and colours; adverbs of places.
Grammar:
I like, I need.
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Unit 8
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Sightseeing
Vocabulary: The city.
Grammar:
The past participle and the perfect tense; time expressions.
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Unit 9
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What's the weather like?
Vocabulary: The weather; telling the time; days of the week, months and seasons.
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Unit 10
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Visit to the Cathedral
Vocabulary: The city.
Grammar: The gerund; simple and articulated prepositions.
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Unit 11
| Going Shopping
Vocabulary:
Clothes.
Grammar:
Reflexive verbs; demonstrative adjectives; how much/how many?
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In a restaurant
Vocabulary:
Adverbs of quantity; adjectives of nationality; adjectives and expressions to describe people. |
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On the telephone
Vocabulary: Talking on the telephone.
Grammar:
Comparative and superlative forms.
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On the train to Venice
Vocabulary: Expressing physical sensations and feelings.
Grammar: Adverbs of negation; plural form of nouns and adjectives ending in -co/-ca.
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In a hotel in Venice
Vocabulary: Furnishings.
Grammar:
Interrogative adjectives, pronouns and adverbs; the impersonal form.
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In the park
Grammar: The imperfect tense; just, already, not yet, still; some, a few.
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On a gondola
Grammar: The present conditional form; to have to + infinitive; to want + infinitive.
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Unit 18
| Chatting
Vocabulary: Making suggestions and accepting and refusing.
Grammar: Direct and indirect pronouns.
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Unit 19
| Carnival!
Vocabulary: Giving news.
Grammar: Differences between the past perfect and the imperfect tense.
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Unit 20
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Morning in the hotel
Vocabulary: Electronic and domestic appliances.
Grammar: The future tense.
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At the train station
Vocabulary: Expressing an opinion.
Grammar: The present subjunctive tense.
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Shopping in Florence
Vocabulary: Expressions to use in happy and sad situations.
Grammar: The present conditional.
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Where shall we go?
Grammar: The imperfect subjunctive tense; the conditional forms.
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Useful advice
Vocabulary: The human body.
Grammar: Conjunctions; the negative imperative.
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A bad day
Vocabulary: The weather.
Grammar:The
pluperfect subjunctive; the perfect conditional.
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How long have you...?
Vocabulary: Sports.
Grammar: Talking about how long you have been doing something; the relative pronoun "cui".
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Talking about tomorrow
Vocabulary: Public buildings.
Grammar: Ways of talking about the future; expressing hope.
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Organising a meeting
Vocabulary: Ordinal numbers.
Grammar: The present perfect subjunctive tense.
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The Meeting
Grammar: The pluperfect tense; pronominal particles. |
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Visiting Rome
Vocabulary: Some important suffixes.
Grammar: The passive form.
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At the Trevi Fountain
Vocabulary: Asking for, giving and refusing permission.
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In a bookshop
Vocabulary: Books.
Grammar: The remote past tense.
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Calling home
Vocabulary: University.
Grammar: Indirect speech.
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End of a long day
Vocabulary: Group nouns.
Grammar: The past perfect tense.
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Making plans for Naples
Vocabulary: Informal letters.
Grammar: Uses of the gerund. |
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In Naples
Vocabulary: Geographical locations.
Grammar: Impersonal verbs.
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Visiting the old town of Naples
Vocabulary: Suffixes to make adjectives; formal letters. |