Please note the last day of the Summer term is 25 June
Autumn Term 2024:
10 September - 03 December (12 weeks)
Half term : Tuesday 29 October
Members: £180 Non-members: £226
Concessions: £20 (call the office 020 8340 3343)
Spring term 2025: 14 January - 08 April (12 weeks)
Half term: Tuesday 18 February
Summer term 2025: 29 April - 08 April (10 weeks)
Half term: Tuesday 27 May
This course is for students who have studied Italian for about 4 years. This course aims to consolidate your existing language knowledge and develop it further by expanding your vocabulary, grammar and structures. Students will be asked at the beginning of each term if there is anything they want to revise regarding grammar or any other area of interest they would like to explore. They will be encouraged to bring personal, social, cultural, and topical news to the classroom and make presentations about them. Topics for conversation will include current affairs as well as films, plays, exhibitions, and any personal interests students might want to discuss. The class will be taught fully in Italian, and a variety of teaching methods will be deployed to maximise opportunities to use the language. Students will be asked to buy a novel. Other reading and listening material will be provided by the tutor.
All students will need to purchase the text book: Luciana Ziglio - Giovanna Rizzo Nuovo Espresso 4: Libro dello Studente 4, Alma Editore.
Maria Marchitelli has a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures gained in Italy. She then obtained an MA at UCL. Over the last 30 years she has taught Italian Language and Culture at various institutions including UCL, LSE, City Lit and Hampstead Garden Suburb. She has been teaching Italian at the HLSI on and off for more than 10 years.
