Introduction to Italian for Middle & High School - Beginners

In this course, students will learn the Italian for beginners curriculum through interactive lectures where they will have the opportunity to participate in class discussions and conversations with a partner, all in a relaxed atmosphere. We use presentations with visuals and graphs to introduce the content followed by student's centered activities such as role playing and games. This course does not build on previous topics and learners can join at any time. After the lesson, students may complete a series of optional activities to reinforce the lesson's content. These activities will include a combination of skills: reading, speaking and writing and will not reflect on the following meeting. All instructional materials will be available through the Outschool classroom. 

Distribution of themes by week:


Week of December 1 Weather.
Week of December 8 Feelings and emotions. The verb to be 
Week of December 15 Greetings. 
Week of December 22 Likes: Food
Week of December 29 Descriptions.
Week of January 5 Likes: Activities.
Week of January 12 Family. Possessive adjectives
Week of January 19 Articles. Telling time.
Week of January 26 Daily routines.
Week of February 2 Places around the city. 
Week of February 9 Body Parts. At the Hospital. 
Week of February 26 At school 
Week of March 2 The verb to go. Places
Week of March 9 Around the City. Prepositions
Week of March 16 Sports: Actions and activities
Week of March 23 Comparatives
Week of March 30 The verb to have
Week of April 6 Expressions with the verb to have.
Week of April 13 ER/IR Regular Verbs
Week of April 20 Stem changing Verbs
Week of April 27 Stem Changing Verbs
Week of May 4 Irregular verbs: I do. 
Week of May 11 Ongoing Actions: What are you doing right now?

At this point our curriculum will circle back. This program might be adjusted to meet learner's need and some modification to the schedule could apply.

Learners will receive exposure to the topics with the opportunity to practice in a communicative format. We use colorful visuals, music, games and context clues to facilitate understanding and keep the goals of every lesson simple enough for learners to be able to memorize new words and phrases every session while using them in simple conversations. Fun and age appropriate topics as well as language immersion suited for beginners will translate into fluency.