MED34 Practical Italian VI

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
Giorgio Cadorini, Dottore in Lettere, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Zuzana Wrana, MPA (seminar tutor), Mgr. Bc. Šárka Hurbánková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 A24
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MED34/Trio: No timetable has been entered into IS. G. Cadorini, Z. Wrana
MED34/T01: Tue 2. 3. to Sun 30. 5. Tue 9:00–10:50 KOM 114, Z. Wrana, Nepřihlašuje se. Určeno pro studenty se zdravotním postižením.
Prerequisites
MED33 Practical Italian V
MED33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar develops skills and puts language structures into practice starting from the level achieved by students in previous courses. The objective to be achieved is the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference.
Students will also prepare some of the topics planned for the final exam.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student understands the key points of familiar topics concerning school, leisure, etc. He knows how to move with ease in situations that can arise while traveling in the country whose language he speaks. He is able to produce a simple text related to topics that are familiar or of personal interest. He is able to express experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions, and also to briefly explain the reasons for his views and plans.
Syllabus
  • I + II WEEK
  • Skills. How to: give instructions; collaborate; request information.
  • Lexicon. Do-it-yourself and moving.
  • Grammar. Combined pronouns, indefinite pronouns and adjectives; verbal prefixation.
  • (Bellissimo 2, unit 8)
  • III + IV WEEK
  • Skills. How to: understand the instructions, give step-by-step instructions.
  • Lexicon. Sustainable development, cooking.
  • Grammar. Structures that demand subordinate clauses with the subjunctive, the impersonal SI, the partitive NE.
  • (Bellissimo 2, unit 9)
  • V ~ + VI WEEK
  • Skills. How to: describe objects; make and propose hypotheses.
  • Lexicon. Adjectives that can be used in descriptions.
  • Grammar. Periphrastic expressions of the incoative phase of the action; other cases of subordinate clauses in the subjunctive.
  • (Bellissimo 2, 10 unit)
  • VII + VIII WEEK
  • Skills. How to: tell past events; describe moods; compare data.
  • Lexicon. Families of today; adverbs of time.
  • Grammar. Aspects of the concordance of the tenses; relative pronouns; causal subordinates.
  • (Bellissimo 2, unit 11)
  • IX + X WEEK
  • Skills. To advise or discourage; to clarify; to report other people's speeches.
  • Lexicon. Care for the body and the psyche.
  • Grammar. Hypothetical phrases with the apodosis to the future.
  • (Bellissimo 2, unit 12)
  • XI + XII WEEK
  • Skills. How to express emotions and react with empathy.
  • Lexicon. Emotions and empathy.
  • Grammar. Choice of the auxiliary in the compound tenses of servile verbs; use of the anterior future; CI and LO in anaphora.
  • (Bellissimo 2, unit 13)
  • XIII WEEK: exam preparation.
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  • REVIEW. Each week, part of the exercises carried out by the students at home will be devoted to the revision of the morphology. In case students find it difficult to do some, the teacher will create space to repeat the topic in class.
Literature
    required literature
  • BALLARIN, Elena et aliae. Bellissimo! : Corso di lingua italiana : 2 : Libro dello studente con eserciziario. Recanati: ELI, 2016. ISBN 978-88-536-1892-4. info
    recommended literature
  • HAMPLOVÁ, Sylva. Mluvnice italštiny. Voznice: Leda, 2004. ISBN 80-7335-041-6. info
  • MEZZADRI, Marco. Grammatica essenziale della lingua italiana con esercizi : testo di grammatica per studenti stranieri dal livello elementare all'intermedio. II edizione. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, 2000, 223 stran. ISBN 8877154543. info
    not specified
  • Vocabolario della lingua italiana (Variant.) : Lo Zingarelli gigante vocabolario della lingua italiana. info
Teaching methods
The seminar is based on active communication.
Students can at any time propose changes to the planned program.
Assessment methods
Attendance is compulsory.
Students will deliver three essays (100-180 words)and three translations (140-180 words), in addition they will present one of the topics in the exam list in class.
The course is concluded with a online written test (successful for almost 70 %) and an online oral exam.
Language of instruction
Italian
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Studenti mediteránních studií volí ukončení zkouškou.
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
GROUP OF THE SEMINAR CONDUCTED BY GIORGIO CADORINI

The seminar is called "Trio".

Trio employs the IS platform of the faculty:
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/phil/jaro2021/ MED34 / seminar-Trio.qwarp.

Lessons take place on the Zoom platform with the cameras on:
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/4930594242.

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The written exam consists of a grammar test. This is an example from past years.

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The topics that can be drawn by lot for the oral exam are the following (students prepare them independently during the semester).

1) A city or region of the Italian linguistic area:

* geography;

* history;

* culture.

2) Traveling:

* the lands you prefer;

* how do you like to travel;

* better alone or in company?

3) Free time:

* how you pass it;

* what are the alternatives?

4) Mass media (newspapers, radio, television, Internet):

* the pros and cons;

* which ones do you use and why?

5) Theater and cinema:

* a show or movie you have watched (direction, actors, theme, etc.);

* show business during the pandemic.

6) Studying or working?

* What are you studying?

* Will you need it for the job you would like to do?)

7) Projects for the summer:

* what are you going to do?

8) The art of feeling good:

* how to keep fit;

* what to do for your psyche;

* what to do about your body.

9) Music:

* play and sing;

* your musical tastes;

* Italian music.

10) Living in the city or in the countryside?

* The pros and cons;

* possible lifestyles.

11) Ecology:

* behaviors in everyday life;

* global warming;

* sustainable development;

* can a city respect the environment?

12) Novels and comics:

* famous writers and cartoonists from the Italian area;

* read on paper and digital data storage devices (pros and cons);

* what does the reading give you?

13) We live in an era of great migrations:

* who emigrates and why;

* who stays and why;

* emigrate for a while and emigrate forever;

* Italian emigration;

* immigration to Italy.

14) We live with someone:

* living with the family and outside;

* live in two different locations;

* sharing an apartment;

* live together as a couple or live apart.

15) movies and serials:

* pros and cons of the two formats;

* at the cinema and at home;

* alone and in company.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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