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Italian - Intermediate Level A

Course code: P10568

Subject area: Languages

Study level: Part Time

Course level: U

Course details

Course time:

18:45 - 20:45

Days of week:

Thursday

Course date:

24th Sept 2026 - 3rd Dec 2026

Course location:

Witney Campus

Contact details

Phone:

01235 555 585

The Italian Intermediate course allows participants to describe past and future events with a chronology, describe an outfit in details, to exchange emails in Italian on various topics, to use the Italian web pages for information and conversations, to describe past and future holidays in details. 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, plan activities for the coming weeks, and organize projects. It means for tenses that they will review the present tense, the perfect and the imperfect past tenses, and future and apply progressively the pluperfect, the conditional and some subjunctive.

Topics: Describe someone’s outfit Describe a past holiday Describe what someone is doing as we speak

In order to avoid disappointment, it is advisable to enrol at least 2½ weeks prior to the course starting. We will confirm course information two weeks prior to the start date.

Please note there will be no class during half-term.Parking is available on Campus. Should the car park be full please use Marriotts Walk or Woodford Way car parks which are a few minutes' walk away.Please report to Reception on arrival. A photo-id will be issued for you to wear when attending classes.Vending machines are available.

What next?
Italian - Intermediate Level B.
Entry criteria
This course is designed for students who studied Italian for about two academic years and learnt to speak at the present, past tense tenses and future with some knowledge of conditional. Students should be able from the start to describe their weekly routine, to talk about 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.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2026 prior to starting the course.

Fee information
A text book is used to accompany the course but it is optional to buy this (average cost £20 - £25). The text book 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.

Co-Funded Fee (19+)

£224.60

Reduced Fee (19+)

£124.90