Italian course (syllabus)
Italian learning plans and audio, exercises, grammar and vocabulary materials for usage during our conversation lessons.
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Structured by CEFR level
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Practical and fun
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6 learning modules per level
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NURSING
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Describe your education level
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Describe your workplace and departments
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Explain equipment and orientation in hospitals
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Vocabulary: Departments, hospital furniture and rooms, equipment, work clothing, footwear
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Describe daily tasks, responsibilities, and schedule
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Explain shift work and teamwork
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Describe organization and planning at the hospital
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Vocabulary: Planning and scheduling shifts
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Observe changes in condition and behavior
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Measure and record vital signs correctly
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Report unusual observations to your supervisor
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Vocabulary: Observation language (color, consistency, temperature, amount), vital signs, documentation terms, respiration, pulse, level of awareness
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Read and write short care reports
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Ask questions about a patient’s status
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Use clear and factual reporting language
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Vocabulary: Reporting structures, administrative vocabulary, report language, patient status terminology
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Participate in multidisciplinary meetings
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Give your opinion
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Understand the roles of other professionals
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Vocabulary: job titles and hierarchy in healthcare, roles in multidisciplinary teams
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Follow hygiene and safety procedures
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Describe infection prevention measures
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Explain your tasks during an epidemic or pandemic
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Vocabulary: hygiene, infection prevention, protective clothing, hand hygiene, cleaning routines, waste separation and recycling in healthcare
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Describe skin condition, wounds, and hygiene
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Identify signs of pressure ulcers (decubitus) and report them
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Vocabulary: Skin condition, wounds, pressure ulcers, risk factors, pressure points, skin assessment terminology
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Recognize conditions like diabetes, COPD, dementia, Parkinson’s
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Adjust care based on symptoms and treatment plans
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Recognize symptoms of left/right heart failure (decompensation) and rheumatic diseases
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Vocabulary: chronic diseases, exacerbation vs. stable condition, heart failure (left/right decompensation), rheumatic diseases
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Ask about daily routines (sleep, eating, mobility)
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Encourage patients to do light exercises
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Provide mobility support
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Vocabulary: Body care, daily routines, body functions, fall prevention
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Recognize symptoms after a stroke or injury
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Describe a rehabilitation plan
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Participate in evaluation meetings
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Support safe repositioning, transfers, and use of mobility aids
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Vocabulary: Rehabilitation, physiotherapy, mobility, assistive devices, stroke symptoms, recovery goals, evaluation language, repositioning, bed mobility, transfer techniques
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Recognize incidents and aggressive behavior
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Report and document them correctly
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Apply de-escalation strategies
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Respond safely to basic emergencies such as hypoglycemia, seizures, allergic reactions, and shock
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Vocabulary: aggression, incident reporting, de-escalation strategies, conflict management, safety terminology, hypo/hyperglycemia, seizure, allergic reaction, shock, AED awareness
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Discuss patient wishes about end-of-life care
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Offer condolences and emotional support
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Respect cultural and religious differences
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Vocabulary: palliative care, hospice, death and religion, emotions, empathy, condolence language
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Explain prescribed and self-care medication
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Give clear dosage instructions
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Read and interpret medication overviews
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Vocabulary: dosage, pharmacology basics, packaging symbols, waste management, administration instructions
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Recognize eating/swallowing problems
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Fill in fluid or feeding lists
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Monitor hydration status and understand basic fluid balance (input/output)
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Vocabulary: healthy diet, aspiration prophylaxis, assistive tools for eating, restrictions, dysphagia vocabulary, fluid balance, intake/output (I/O), dehydration signs, hydration monitoring
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Explain meals and diet options
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Discuss preferences and adapt menus to special needs
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Vocabulary: meals and drinks in care, diabetes-related diet vocabulary, chronic illness nutrition, menu adaptations
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Support urination and defecation (using bedpans, urinals)
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Practice hygienic incontinence care
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Report color, consistency, and amount of urine/stool
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Vocabulary: excretions, urination/defecation, incontinence care, bedpans and urinals, hygiene care, describing color/consistency/amount
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Organize activities with residents
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Holidays and social events
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Participate in small talk and family meetings
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Vocabulary: social events, holidays, small talk vocabulary, family meetings, celebrations
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Describe informal care and family roles
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How to support volunteers
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Fill in home-care documentation
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Vocabulary: family roles, relationships, informal care, volunteer support, home-care documentation
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Recognize symptoms of schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and severe mental illnesses
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Communicate effectively with clients experiencing hallucinations, delusions, or confusion
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Support clients with intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., Rett syndrome)
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Vocabulary: schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, intellectual disability, Rett syndrome, crisis signals
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Apply the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and other pain assessment tools, including non-verbal pain indicators
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Describe the WHO classification system and Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns
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Explain Machteld Huber’s “Positive Health” model and the Content–Procedure–Interaction–Subsistence levels
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Use the SBARR method for structured communication
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Vocabulary: NRS, pain assessment tools, WHO system, Gordon’s patterns, Positive Health, SBARR, assessment vocabulary, non-verbal pain indicators
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Identify common medication groups such as beta blockers and explain their effects and risks
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Choose the correct intramuscular (IM) injection site based on age, muscle mass, and safety
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Recognize signs of malnutrition and support clients who struggle with dietary adherence
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Vocabulary: beta blockers, IM injection sites (deltoid, ventrogluteal, vastus lateralis), malnutrition signs, dietary adherence
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Prepare clients for operations, including fasting guidelines, hygiene, and transport
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Support clients emotionally and physically before, during, and after surgery
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Explain the difference between sedation, anesthesia, and palliative sedation
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Vocabulary: preoperative checklist, anesthesia, palliative sedation, sterile field, postoperative care terminology
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Get to know care institutions and referrals
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Distinguish intramural and extramural care
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Explain outreach and community-based care services
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Vocabulary: care institutions (huisarts, nursing homes), referrals, intra-/extramural care, outreach care, community care, insurance
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Learn to use new hygiene materials and technologies
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Apply ergonomic techniques safely
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Describe preventive nursing actions (falls, thrombosis)
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Vocabulary: care equipment, ergonomic techniques, body care tools, prophylaxis, mobility belts, anti-slip materials
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Communicate with clients from diverse cultures
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Support residents with hearing or memory problems
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Vocabulary: cultural differences, communication styles, hearing/memory problems, supportive communication strategies
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Handle ethical dilemmas in everyday nursing practice
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Apply principles of privacy, autonomy, and respect in patient interactions
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Follow professional norms, values, and legal standards
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Vocabulary: privacy, autonomy, respect, professional norms and values, legal standards, quality of care
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Basic greetings and farewells.
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Starting and ending a conversation.
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Useful phrases to use during class (asking for clarification, repetition, etc.).
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personal pronouns
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Tell your name and ask for the name of somebody
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Titles and ways of addressing people. (Mister, miss,...)
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Introduce yourself
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The Italian alphabet
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Italian pronunciation
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Ask somebody where they are from
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Say your nationality
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The articles in Italian: Il, Lo, La, I, Gli, Le
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Gender and number of nouns
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Learn to count
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Numbers from 1-100
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Cardinal numbers
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Introduce and tell about your family.
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Ask someone about their family. (size, structure,...)
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Possessive adjectives
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Asking somebody's age
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Say how old you are and when your birthday is
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The interrogatives: "Quando?", "Quanto?",
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Describe your profession
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Ask somebody's profession
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Talk about studies
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The interrogatives: "Quale?", "Dove?", "Perché?"
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Asking for and giving contact details.
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Tell and ask for addresses.
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Present tense of regular verbs
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Learn the parts of the day.
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Learn the names of the 7 days of the week
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Describe your weekly activities.
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Prepositions: indicating times of the day
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Talk about the weather
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Basic weather vocabulary
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The articulated prepositions
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Learn the ordinal numbers.
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ordinal numbers
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Learn the seasons and months.
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Describe the weather in each season and month.
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Tell what you do in what month of the year.
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Stare per + infinitive
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Ask and tell the time
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Read the clock
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How to tell the time?
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The basic dates and holidays
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How is the date formed?
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Name the food that we consume daily.
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Tell what you eat and drink.
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conjunctions
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Talk about your daily routine.
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Talk about habits.
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Reflexive verbs
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Basic ingredients for cooking
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Expressing obligations
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qualifying adjectives
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Ask and answer questions.
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Learn the question words.
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Interrogatives
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Talk about money, currencies and payment methods.
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Ask for and say the price in a shop.
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Indefinites: 'molto', 'tanto', 'poco', etc...
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Write a grocery list for daily food and drinks.
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Ask a shop assistant about a product in the supermarket.
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Imperative - tu: Prendi, Va', Fai, ...
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Describe everyday clothing.
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Ask for availability in a clothing shop.
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Ask for your size.
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The modal verbs: 'Potere', 'Dovere', 'Volere'
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Get to know the basic body parts.
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Basic phrases to describe your health.
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The plural of nouns
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Describe people's physical appearance
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Use adjectives to describe people.
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The agreement of adjectives
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Describe the colours of common objects.
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Use of “piacere”
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Express your basic emotions.
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Describe the emotions of others.
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The present perfect with essere
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The present perfect with avere
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Describe taste, smell, sight, sound and touch
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Compare things
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The comparative adjectives: "Più + aggettivo + di," ...
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Describe forms and shapes.
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Describe basic objects.
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Express preferences.
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Demonstrative adjectives: questo, quello
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Learn to describe the character of people.
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Talk about personalities.
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The relative superlative: il più, il meno, i più, ...
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Express what you need.
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Tell how your body feels.
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Past participles as adjectives
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Express sickness and pain.
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Express your medical condition at the doctor's office.
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Adverbs of manner
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Describe all the rooms and floors of a house.
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Understand a house rental or sales ad.
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The use of 'c'è' and 'ci sono'
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Describe the furniture in your house.
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"Ci" vs "ce"
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Setting up the table to receive guests.
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Adverbs of place: qui, qua, lì, là,...
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Learn the names of common household and electrical appliances.
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Daily situations with common household devices.
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Adverbs ending in -mente
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Learn the different types of accommodations.
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Contact a landlord or agency to rent a house.
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The connectors: 'allora', 'quindi', 'perché', 'anche'
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Learn the names of common plants and flowers in the house and in the garden.
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Talk about plant care and routines at your home or office.
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Stare + gerund
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Learn the basic animals (pets).
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Describe the routines, daily care and food of your pet.
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'Andare a' + infinitive
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Describe the location of services on a map.
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Ask for the opening hours of a certain service.
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The negation: 'Non', 'No', 'Neanche', 'Nemmeno'
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Ask food from the menu.
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Reserve a table in a restaurant.
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The polite form: vorrei
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Learn the sports
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Talk about the sports you practice
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The adverbs of frequency: sempre, spesso, mai
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Talk about your hobbies
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Describe activities that you enjoy
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The adverbs of time: dopo, prima, poi, etc...
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Describe the different types of transportation.
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Buy a transport ticket.
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Describe transportation between places.
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Place expressions: andare in, andare a, per, da, etc.
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Ask for directions in a city
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Giving directions to a stranger
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Ask for the existence of a building or service.
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The expressions of place: a destra, vicino a, ...
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Make plans with your friends for the Friday evening.
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Invite somebody for an event.
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The passive form with essere + past participle
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Talk about culture events in the city.
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Go to the museum, an exposition, musical,...
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Indirect speech: “dire che”
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Describe different types of holidays and activities.
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Discuss the modes of transportation used to reach your travel destination
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Know common holiday destinations in your guest country.
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Expressing cause and purpose
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Name and describe common items ti pack and suitcase types.
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Packing a suitcase for a business trip.
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Navigate baggage rules and restrictions at the airport.
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The comparatives: maggiore, minore, migliore, peggiore
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Book and reserve a room - by phone, email and online.
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Know common hotel and room types.
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The uses bello, buono, bravo and bene
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The check-in process for your flight: at the airport and online.
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Ask for information on flight schedules and terminals.
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Going through security and understanding safety instructions.
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Adverbs of quantity
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Rent a car, bike or scooter.
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Manage your car insurance and deposit.
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Pick up and return your transportation.
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direct object pronouns
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Do your hotel check-in and check-out.
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Request changes or extra services during your stay.
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Report any issues related to your stay at the reception.
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indirect object pronouns
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Common activities during a city trip.
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Asking information at the tourist office.
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Know practical survival phrases as a tourist to navigate in the city.
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The use of ne
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Report stolen or lost items at the police station.
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Asking for help with documents at the embassy or consulate.
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Contact emergency services.
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Indefinite pronouns: 'qualcuno', 'qualcosa', 'nessuno'
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Navigate social security, working permits and paperwork.
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Know your obligations and paperwork in the country.
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The present perfect with irregular past participles
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Discuss a news you saw on television or heard on the radio.
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Time expressions for recent events.
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Get to know the popular media stations in your host country.
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The imperfect tense: regular verbs
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The Imperfect: irregular verbs
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Know the names of emergency services of your new country.
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Calling and advising about emergency situations.
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The past perfect
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Learn about the country's education system.
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Talk about your time at school and childhood memories.
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Imperfect or present perfect?
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Open a bank account.
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Make online purchases and be familiar with common payment methods.
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Get to know the biggest banks of the country.
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Le espressioni temporali: due giorni fa, la settimana scorsa, due ore prima, ...
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Talk about your university study or goals.
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Know vocabulary about higher education.
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Know the higher education system and institutions of your new country.
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The temporal expressions of the imperfect: ogni giorno, sempre, spesso, ...
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Get to know the basic government institutions of the country.
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Elections and voting.
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The past tenses (summary)
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Buy (online) tickets for a festival, concert, musical,...
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Talk about musical instruments and your favorite genre.
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Know common festivals in your new country.
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The simple future
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Invite and receive your friends at home.
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Organize a dinner party, game night, or other activity.
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Know common evening activities in your new country.
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Absolute superlatives: issimo, -issima, etc.
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Talk about the village and the countryside.
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Learn the names of the farm animals.
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Learn about the most known rural regions of your host country.
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The impersonal "si"
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Going on camping and activities to do in the nature.
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Navigate using a map or GPS.
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Know common regions to go camping in your new country.
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Conjunctions: "comunque, inoltre, pure, infatti"
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Describe different landscapes and animals.
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Organize a family activity at an attraction park.
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Learn about famous zoos or wildlife areas in your host country
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The conjunctions 'nè...nè', 'sia…sia', 'o…o'
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Invites friends and relatives for a hike or small walk.
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Vocabulary on landscapes and hiking.
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Get to know famous hiking areas of your host country.
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Expressing positive and negative emotions
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Talk about hygiene products and routines.
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Explain what hygiene products you want in the shop.
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Time expressions: durante, fino a, appena, etc.
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Search and find private classes.
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Enrol in a local academy of your interest.
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The expressions "ho bisogno di", "ho voglia di", etc.
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Ask for a specific menu.
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Order take-away meals.
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Use of "finire di", "cominciare a", "tornare a"
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Talk about your diet and (un)healthy habits.
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Plan your weekly menu.
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The relative 'che'
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Discuss your daily transportation.
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Discuss various types of transportation.
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Indefinite adjectives: 'ogni', 'qualche', 'troppo', etc...
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Talk about your favourite outfit.
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Describe your outfit and fashion.
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The expressions of place: 'accanto', 'davanti', 'dentro', etc...
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Talk about the benefits of exercising and sports
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Talk about your daily exercise routines
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Possessives: il mio, la tua, i suoi,
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Discuss an advertisement for a house or apartment that you just saw.
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Discuss to buy a new house or apartment.
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The present conditional
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The real conditional (type 2)
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Talk about a book, fairy tale, or poem you have read.
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Ask for a book or author in the library.
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Borrowing books and registering as a new library member.
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The present conditional: irregular verbs
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Talk about your bucket list and future plans
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Giving advice: "dovresti", "potresti"
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Talk about plans and ambitions for the future
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Talk about your relationships and family plans
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The gerund, the three conjugations
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Discuss plans for starting a business.
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Talk about daily bookkeeping responsibilities.
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Expressions with 'ecco' and 'è'
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Talk about activities and lifestyle changes after you retire.
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Talk about ongoing actions in the future.
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The agreement between direct pronouns and the past participle
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Know the names of local services and shops.
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Discuss what you find in the shopping center.
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combined pronouns
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Send and receive messages.
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Email and internet.
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the past infinitive
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Create and send your curriculum.
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Use job portals to search for a job.
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The imperative
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Performing a job interview
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Indirect object
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the negative imperative
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Vocabulary about teams and roles
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Giving orders with indirect object
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The irregular imperative
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Learn basic debating vocabulary
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Express agreement and disagreement
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The imperative with pronouns
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Express your opinion
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Learn basic phrases to discuss viewpoints
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Indirect speech with the present perfect
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Vocabulary on organisational hierarchy
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Giving orders
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Expressions of agreement and disagreement: sono d'accordo, non sono d'accordo, ecc...
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Daily office vocabulary
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Remote work vocabulary
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How to express opinions: secondo me, per me, ecc...
