Table of Contents

Introduction to 101

• Benvenuti (Welcome)

Unit 1

• What comes to your mind when you think of Italy?
• How many Italian words do you know?
• Who are you?
• The Italian alphabet
• Come si scrive ….? 
• Una canzone: L’Inno nazionale

Unit 2

• Italian Greetings and Good-Byes
• Telling your name and asking someone to do the same
• Asking and replying to “How are you?”
• How to address people
• The verb ESSERE (The verb TO BE)
• Lei (you formal), lei (she) and the Italian Equivalents of the Neuter English ‘IT”
• Di dove sei? (Where are you from?)
• How to answer a question
• Una Canzone: Piove by Fred Buscaglione
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 3

• Nazionalità (Nationality)
• Il nome (The noun)
• From Masculine to Feminine
• L’aggettivo (The adjective)
• L’articolo indeterminativo (The indefinite article)
• Una Canzone (A song)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 4

• I numeri (The numbers)
• C’è Ci sono (There is and There are)
• La classe (The class)
• Nouns: from singular to plural
• Adjectives: the plural
• Una Canzone (A song)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 5

• La città (The city)
• L’articolo determinativo (The definite article)
• Il verbo avere (The verb “to have”)
• Quanti anni hai? (How old are you?)
• Espressioni Idiomatiche (Idiomatic expressions)
• Questo e quello (This and that)
• Video clip
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 6

• I verbi in -are (Verbs in -are)
• Il tempo libero (Free time)
• Che ora è? (What time is it?)
• A che ora….? (At what time…?)
• Una canzone (A song)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 7

• Verbi irregolari in -are (Irregular verbs in -are)
• Special expressions with irregular verbs
• A Difficult Choice: in or a?
• Simple prepositions
• Una canzone (A song)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 8

• Il cibo (The food)
• Prepositioni articolate (Articulated prepositions)
• Prepositional phrases
• La data (The date)
• Some Activities
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 9

•  Al bar (At the bar)
• I verbi in -ere (Verbs in -ere)
• Verbi irregolari in -ere (Irregular verbs in -ere)
• I verbi servili (The modal verbs)
• Sapere and conoscere (To know)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 10

• L’arte (The arts)
• l verbo Piacere (The verb Piacere)
• I verbi in -ire (The verbs in -ire)
• La coniugazione di finire e simili (Conjugation of finire and similar verbs)
• Verbi irregolari in -ire (Irregular verbs in -ire)
• Verbs followed by “a” or “di” plus infinitive
• Una canzone e uno spot (A song and a commercial)
• Ripasso (Review)

Unit 11

• La famiglia (The family)
• I possessivi (The possessive)
• Family and Possessive Adjectives
• Partitive articles and the expression “un po’ di”
• Una canzone (A song)
• Ripasso (Review)