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Italian - Intermediate Level B

Course code: P10305

Subject area: Languages

Study level: Part Time

Course level: U

Course details

Course time:

16:30 - 18:30

Days of week:

Thursday

Course date:

15th Jan 2026 - 26th Mar 2026

Course location:

Abingdon Campus

Contact details

Phone:

01235 555 585

Italian - Intermediate B allows participants to describe past and future events with a chronology, to present a place with its facilities, to exchange emails in Italian on various topics, to use the Italian web pages for information and conversation, to envisage the outcome of current technological developments. Learners will also extend their knowledge of numbers to thousands and millions, and use proportions and percentages. A book will be recommended, magazine articles, audio tracks and videos extracts provided.
Participants will build short narratives with greater confidence, relate events, incidents or accidents, make telephone conversations. They will narrate and give their opinion about how things used to be, contribute to a film review, plan activities for the coming weeks and for the next ten years, organize projects. It means for tenses that they will review the present tense, the perfect and the imperfect past tenses, use more consistently an accurately the future and the conditional on a range of topics and situations.

The topics covered on this course are: Booking a holiday; Leisure time; Going to the cinema; Ordering a meal in the restaurant; Discuss radio programmes; Physical fitness.

Course units
n/a
What next?
Italian - Intermediate Level C
Entry criteria
This course is designed for students who studied Italian for about two academic years and learnt to speak at the present tense, past tenses and future with some knowledge of conditional and subjunctive. Students should be able from the start to describe their habits and their hobbies, analyse a few characters, provide opinions and express thoughts. The standard approximates to Level A2 in terms of the Common European Framework.
Fee information
A textbook is used to accompany the course, but it is optional to buy this (average cost £20 - £25). The textbook will support your learning for at least 1 year. You may also like to buy a small dictionary. Your tutor will be able to advise you at the first session.

As part of your course we may organise trips to assist you with your learning. Trips are optional, and you will not be penalised if you choose not to participate.

There are bursaries available to help you with other course costs. Call 01235 216 212 for more information.

The rules on fee reduction are complicated and we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions staff on 01235 216 400 to discuss your options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.

19+ Fee:

£217.00

19+ Reduced Fee:

£121.00

Qualifications received
n/a
Learning & method assessment
We commit ourselves to accommodate different learning styles through a variety of activities in class. There is no exam to sit and no qualification to obtain apart from a Certificate of Attendance for a specific level of language. However, the complexity of the tasks offered will evolve according to the progression of your language skills and will demonstrate your acquisition of new competences.

To track your progress and achievement you will be required to complete a short document.