COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A continuation of IT 201. While continuing the review of grammar, the course emphasizes the development of reading and composition skills. Short stories, newspaper articles, and films supplement the textbook.
SUMMARY OF COURSE CONTENT:
This course concentrates on consolidating specific communicative tasks, including stating opinions and constructing hypotheses, in both speaking and writing. Specialized vocabulary is expanded and appropriate variables in register are introduced in expository writing and conversation. Please note that students who enroll in this level are supposed to have a solid knowledge of the topics covered in the previous levels. A PLACEMENT TEST will be held the first day of class. Students with gaps from previous levels are responsibile to work on them. FLRC can provide help, as well as digital resources provided by the Instructors.
The course is designed to review and study in depth the following grammar items:
  • Subjunctive mode: present, past, imperfect, and trapassato: Indicative Vs. Subjunctive
  • Passato Remoto
  • Formal Imperative
  • Past and present Conditional
  • If clause (periodo ipotetico)
  • Passive voice, impersonal forms, and Si passivante
  • Relative pronouns
  • Gerundio and Infinitive