Book Club

Dates & Time
26 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

Fee
£25 (1½ hours)

The tutor
The tutor has a degree in Literature and is qualified to teach Italian to foreigners as LS and several years of experience in tutoring.

Book Club 26 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

Italian through Art - DONATELLO e il Rinascimento Italiano

Italian Cinema Club

Every second Saturday of the month, the Italian Club invites you to familiarise with the main historical, cultural and social aspects of Italian filmmaking by looking at the work of some of its most influential authors/actors/directors.

The next meeting will suit any student who wants to examine the Romantic vision of the world portrayed by the ‘Golden Age’ of Italian cinema and explore Italian popular culture. We are going to start with the work of Alessandro Blasetti known as the "father of Italian cinema", and some of his masterpieces as Quattro passi fra le nuvole, a delightful romantic comedy, and some of his epic fairy tales such as "La Corona di Ferro".

Level: For all levels.
Fee: £21 (per meeting)
Date: 15 April 2023 15:30-16:30

Italian on Foot (face-to-face conversation session)

Practise your Italian in the most natural way possible. 40 minutes of this 1 hour session will be spent talking in Italian with your teacher, whilst you stop in front of shops, parks and gardens (according to where the tour takes place) and of course at an Italian bar where you will carry on conversing over a coffee and recap all what you have learnt without effort with your specialised tutor. What better than this? Small groups or individually (all levels, apart from absolute Beginners).

Fee: £24 (in small groups) or ask for individual fees.

Grammar Workshop

If you feel you could benefit from concentrating on Italian grammar, this course can put the finishing touches to your spoken and written skills. Learn how to avoid errors, and raise your overall level of communication. This is a great opportunity to firm up on your Italian grammar and consolidate your Italian language studies!

What will be covered?
In one and half hours, we will try to cover the main topics of the grammar for your level, troubleshooting the most tricky areas and errors. Can we succeed in this heroic adventure? Come and find out!

All levels, from Beginners to Advanced. All one and half hours lessons, each level at £24 per session.

The Grammar workshops will be online.

NOTE: You are welcome to take more than one level onthe same day.

Strano & Sorprendente - a collection of unusual courses

Italian Through the regions in Italy
Let’s go to Italy, virtually. If you cannot go to Italy, we will bring Italy to you. Let’s explore the life, the food, the culture and the history of the Italian regions, through the eyes and the experience of one of tutors originally from the region on the spot.

Every third Saturday of the month.
The region which we will be covering this month is Veneto, with many curiosities and traditions to talk about.

Literature and teaching material will be sent to the participants after the workshop. Given in Italian and English, this special workshop is for everybody. Just come along to absorb La Dolce Vita, il Bel Paese and la Divina Lingua.

Duration:	1 hour
Location:	Online
Next dates:	18 March - 10:30-11:30
Fee:	£21
Italian Through Italy - Veneto - 18th March 2023, 10:30-11:30

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Italian Through Meditation and easy Yoga
Learn the parts of the body in Italian kinaesthetically and through repetition, use the imperative tense, practise instructions to receive and to give and, of course, relax!

Level: All

Duration:	1 hour
Location:	Online
Dates:	14 April - 07:30-08:30 am
Fee:	£21
Please contact us for further information.

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Italian Opera Club

Opera as an Art form has contributed enormously to the shaping of Italian worldwide cultural legacy with composers as Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini. The Club will meet once per month, every first Friday of the month.

We’ll start our journey through Italy with Rossini’s brilliant comedies, the famous opere buffe Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Un’italiana in Algeri, and we’ll be travelling accompanied by its unforgettable characters, amorous intrigues, dramatic tension, mystery and spectacle. The course consists of listening and video projections and readings, class discussion, with an interdisciplinary approach by studying Italian opera’s literary sources, music-dramatic features to gain a thorough knowledge of the works of the most important composers of Italian opera and relate each work to the social/historical context of the composer’s time and style.

The tutor
Graduated Magna Cum Laude in Humanities at the prestigious La Sapienza University of Rome, the teacher is an established director who will address the history of Italian opera from an aesthetic-cultural perspective.

Level: For all levels. The workshop will be given both in Italian and English.

Duration:	1 hour
Location:	Online
Dates:	14 April – 17:30-18:30
Fee:	£21
Opera Club 14 April

Writing Workshop

Improve your written Italian

The small group sessions will exclusively focus on written Italian. Each session is charged for 1 hour, half an hour of which will be spent with a tutor to work on pre-task activities, explore the building blocks of good writing and spelling exercises ("ortografia"). In each Zoom meeting the tutor will assign a different essay for the students to write at home and which will be individually corrected (hence the other 30 minutes of the hour). The tutor will help to identify areas for writing and structure development, with corrections and explanation of any grammar/spelling mistakes to enrich your vocabulary.

The essays will deal with different types of writing (creative writing, letters/emails, stories, reviews) and will be an invaluable help for CILS exam candidates, GCSE & A' level Italian students, or simply for anybody who likes to write and knows they would benefit from language inputs and advice to write in a foreign language.

Also the following aspects will be dealt with: Punctuation & Spelling

Improve your written Italian for exams – Special Edition

Especially ideal for all CILS candidates who would like to improve their written skills and get familiarised with the written part of the CILS exams, the workshop will focus on past papers practice and how to compose and address written complaints, job applications and request information in Italian. Also the following aspects will be dealt with:

• Paragraph structure
• Proofreading
• Adding variety to your sentences.