Italian school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

Conducted in Italian, this course is designed for beginners with no knowledge of Italian. The aim of the course is to develop oral expression, listening comprehension, and reading and writing skills. Class time is devoted to group and paired activities, as well as cultural discussions. (4 credits)

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:
Developing and improving your spoken language
Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers.
Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding.
Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
Focusing on langua...

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Aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the language. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to discuss everyday activities using the present tense. Students can also expect to be able to read and write elementary texts such as a simple letter. Topics include pronunciation, expressions of date and quantity, indefinite and definite articles, and direct object pronouns.

Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level 1, students improve their listening skills and conversational ability through structured dialogues and other practical activities. Students begin to communicate more precisely as they learn the past perfect and imperfect tenses. More complex reading selections also provide a basis for conversational and written activities. Topics include interrogatives, expressions of like and dislike, reflexive verbs, adverbs, indirect object nouns and pronou...

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Upon completion of this level, students should be able to discuss topics including health, travel, holidays and business using the present, past and future tenses. This level continues to emphasize the improvement of oral comprehension and creative expression through the use of teaching resources including reading selections, video and song. Topics introduced include disjunctive pronouns, comparatives and superlatives, simple future tense, double object pronouns, imperative form, and indefinite ...

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