This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing listening skills and work on pronunciation.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1Â Â Physical appearance
- 1Â Â Physical appearance
- Describing people's faces
- Describing physical characteristics
- Understanding spoken physical descriptions
- Forming physical descriptions
- Practising describing people
- Listening to descriptions
- 2Â Â Comparing
- 2Â Â Comparing
- Comparing people using più … di or meno … di
- Comparing two people using come or quanto
- Practising comparing people
- 3Â Â Personality
- 3Â Â Personality
- Listening to descriptions
- Describing someone’s personality
- Understanding written descriptions
- Practising describing people
- Useful adjectives for describing people
- 4Â Â Literary description
- 4Â Â Literary description
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Scan-reading a text
- Checking meaning
- Detailed reading
- Opposites
- Writing a description yourself
- Conclusion
- Take the next step
- References
- Acknowledgements
