LEARN ITALIAN AT THE CAMPING TOSCANA VILLAGE
Are you interested in Italy and fascinated by its melodious language? Do you enjoy spending your holidays in our sunny Mediterranean country? Do you also appreciate the Italian cuisine, fashion and lifestyle ? If the answers to all these questions are yes, why not attend one of our Italian language courses while staying at our beautiful campgrounds ?
Toscana Village is ideally situated in Montopoli - a small, rural and medieval village halfway between Florence and Pisa. Centrally located in the heart of Tuscany and in close proximity to an excellent system of railways and highways, most major artistic and cultural destinations are just a short trip away. Toscana Village is currently offering courses in Italian which train the participants in facing a large variety of daily situations. Besides teaching grammar, our courses are especially focused on verbal skills which bolster the student's self-confidence in day-to-day communications.
Our intensive courses are held Monday through Saturday, four hours in the morning. In one week you will receive a total of 24 hours instruction (each lesson lasts 45 minutes.) You will learn Italian in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, in small groups up to a maximum of 10 students. All our teachers are fully experienced and qualified.
Lunch will be served at the campsite's restaurant. In the afternoon participants will be free to join group activities or to organise their time independently. Examples of group activities include: visits to Florence, Volterra, Pisa, Lucca, and San Gimignano, wine and olive oil tasting at local farms, and visits to leather factories and to other master craftsmen in the surrounding areas.
Participants will be housed in Toscana Village's modern and comfortable bungalows, all of which are equipped with the comforts of home: a bathroom, a fully furnished kitchen, heating and air conditioning. Each bungalow has two bedrooms, so that a single bungalow can be shared by two persons. Naturally you can also rent one on your own.
We offer two different levels, depending on the participant's abilities:
Basic Corse for Lerners:
Daily class hours: 4 from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12.15 a.m.
Communication skills:
- Introducing yourself to another person
- Describing a person or an object
- Describing a place
- Describing a house and a room
- Expressing your taste, what you like and dislike
- Expressing your agreement/disagreement
- Asking for the time
- Asking for information in different situational contexts (ie. at the train station, the airport, the post office, the doctor's, the drugstore, in a restaurant or a bar)
- Reading and understanding a menu, odering properly at the restaurant
- Communicating in a shop
- Orientationg yourself in a town: asking or giving directions
- Italian proverbs and commun expressions
Aquired skills:
- The most common Italian regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
- Use of Italian articles, adjectives and nouns
- Rich vocabular knowledge in order to manage some specific situations
- Ordinal and cardinal numbers
- Prepositions
Italian course for advanced lerners:
Daily class hours: 4 from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12.15 a.m.
Communication skills:
- A quick review of corse I
- How to make a phone call
- How to manage negotiations (renting a house, a car or buying a luxury good).
- Describing a house and a room
- How to complain about bad service (in oral and written form).
- Talking about something in past tense.
- Writing a letter to a friend.
- Introduction to navigating Italian web sites (how to find interesting directories and get important tourist information without wasting time).
- Reading of texts regarding Italian customs, important events and aspects of modern Italian life.
Aquired skills:
- Review of the regular and irregular verbs, and of all the grammar structures presented in Basic Course 1.
- Rewiew of the Italian adjectives, pronouns, articles and prepositions
- Introduction to the past tense (passato prossimo e imperfetto).
- Review of the comparative and the superlative form of an adjective
- Review of the already acquired vocabular
- introduction to new expressions linked to the studied situations
