Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Discuss past actions
• Make travel plans at a travel agency
• Take a train at a station or a plane at the airport
• Express doubts, opinions, and emotions about past events
• Make negative statements using negative adjectives and pronouns
• Talk about hypothetical situations and wishes
• Discuss evening outing plans: theater, cinema, and music
• Specify how long something has been going on
• Recognize suffixes
• Recognize and use the “distant past” in relation to literature and/or history
• Express more complicated sequence of events both orally and in writing
• Express opinion about literature and writing by deducing meaning from context
• Report what others have said
• Talk about different media sources: television, radio, Internet, newspapers, etc
• Discuss politics and current events
• Make impersonal statements
• Organize and essay in the target language
• Locate, recognize, and discuss three important regions of Italy and their cities
• Discuss Italy’s future in relations to European Union
• Discuss the presence and influence of Italian-Americans
• Compare cultures: Italy and United States