Italian 3

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Nicolette David
• Assessment: two termly continuous assessment exercises (20%), an in-class listening assessment (15%), in-class written assessment (30%), oral in-class assessment (15%), 1000-word self-reflexive essay in Italian (15%) and class participation (5%)

This 24-week module, leading to *CEFR stage B2 (Upper Intermediate)/A-level+, is aimed at developing your language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) in Italian to an advanced level of ability. It will also help you gain further insight into aspects of the culture and society of Italy. You will consolidate your knowledge of tenses and learn to use more complex sentences and structures, as well as idioms and expressions. You will be working with longer texts from a range of media, including news and current affairs programmes as well as films.

*Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please note this is only an approximate equivalence.