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Acquabattaglia Country House Cantiano Pesaro-Urbino Marche Italy
School of basic Italian: One week course
School of basic Italian: One week course
We are organizing basic courses of the Italian language. Such courses are for people of all ages and of any nation, for those who want to learn to understand and speak Italian or want to improve their knowledge. The key points of the courses are shown below Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any clarification required.
A) Basic Italian Courses.
The courses are intensive; the duration is 5 days (from Monday to Friday). We provide accommodation for one week – from Saturday to Saturday. Classes are held four hours a day, from 9 to 13. Afternoons, Saturday and Sunday are free for studying on your own, entertainment or excursions. The classes are held in one group with a qualified teacher. Hand-out materials will be distributed by the teacher.
The program for the period of your staying here is as follows:
1. Saturday, the first day – arrival and reception.
2. Sunday, Free day.
3. Monday: the teacher’s presentation, Lesson 1. Greeting, introducing oneself, affirmative and negative statements. Asking and telling the name. Asking and talking about nationality and origin (where you come from). Thanking, apologizing. Grammar: personal pronouns, polite forms. Present simple of the verbs to be, to have and regular verbs of the three conjugations. Singular and plural forms of common nouns of masculine and feminine gender. Free afternoon.
4. Tuesday. Lesson 2. Asking for and giving phone numbers and address. Numbers from 0 to 20. Asking and answering questions about the age. Asking for and giving explanations. Asking where a place is located, telling what there is in a place. Asking the directions in the street. Asking and telling the time and the date. Saying that you don’t know the answer. Replying when someone is addressing you. At the shop - asking the price, finding out what one wants to buy, quantity and etc. Grammar: singular and plural, masculine and feminine adjective forms ending with o/a. Adjectives ending with e. There is – there are forms. Using why, what, when, where, how much / how many, which questions. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. Free afternoon.
5. Wednesday, Lesson 3. Formal and informal ways of presenting yourself and presenting somebody else. Asking about the meaning of some thing, expression etc. Asking and talking about jobs, things one can do (skills and abilities), hobbies, interests, etc. Using in speech days of the week, months, years, centuries. Grammar: word order in a phrase, affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. Using simple and compound prepositions. Irregular adjectives. Free afternoon.
6. Thursday, Lesson 4. Expressing the opinion using phrases like “in my opinion, I think that and etc. Family relations. Numbers from 20 to 100, etc. Presenting other persons, answering phone-calls and introducing yourself on the phone, asking for permission. Describing yourself and describing somebody, clothes etc., describing a thing, a place, an animal etc. Grammar: cardinal and ordinal numerals, irregular verbs conjugation. Verbs can, must, want. Past and future forms of the verb. Free afternoon.
7. Friday, Lesson 5 – the last lesson. Speaking about habits. Asking and saying what one is doing (present continuous forms). Talking about preferences and the thing one likes etc. Making a shopping list, saying what one wants to eat or drink, menu, asking for a bill. Telling a story in the past and in the future. Expressing agreement and disagreement, delight and disappointment. Making assumptions, expressing probability. Grammar: use of the gerund and the participle, impersonal particle. Grammatical agreement between the verb and the subject, between the verb and the objects. General revision, clarifications and explanations. Free afternoon. Farewell dinner organized by our company. 8. Saturday, Departure.
B) Accommodation
The students will be accommodated in 6 wonderful apartments recently reconstructed in the antique Umbrian- Marches style; the country house is surrounded by a big fenced park with swimming pool. It is important that students should be accustomed to living together in an apartment; accommodation “ad personam” can be arranged upon agreement with the management. The apartments are “self catering” with cleaning and linen and towels changing on a weekly basis. Since the apartments are self catering and have all the conveniences, the students can use the apartments’ kitchens to prepare meals.
The common kitchen and the common room (the room Acquabattaglia where the classes are held too) are also at the students’ disposal.
c) Price The price per one person for one week (see above) is 295 Euro and includes: - 5 lessons a week (total 20 hours) and handout materials. - Self catering accommodation for one week (arrival on Saturday – departure on Saturday no later than 10 a.m.)
D) Courses
The courses will be held only if the minimum quantity of students per group is achieved (the minimum quantity is 12, maximum – 22). Our company reserves the right to cancel the course (no later than 10 days before the scheduled course beginning) if the minimum quantity of students per group (12) is not achieved. As an alternative if the minimum number of 12 person is not reached guests can pass their holidays in Acquabattaglia without Italian courses at a reduced price of 235 Euros per person per week.
There will be 4 courses
-Course No. 1 “Leonardo” from 16. to 23 May -Course No. 2 “Botticelli” from 23 to 30 May
- Course No. 3 “Pinturicchio” from 29 August to 5 September. - Course No. 4 “Piero della Francesca” from 5 to 12 September.
For courses “Pinturicchio” and “Piero della Francesca” the swimming pool of the country house will be open.
If you would like to see more of the house, go to www.helloit.co.uk/acquabattaglia.htm
To book click here to contact Pietro & Vera at Acquabattaglia directly, quoting "Hello Italy"
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