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At the B1 level of Italian, learners achieve an intermediate proficiency, focusing on practical communication and the ability to handle everyday situations in Italian-speaking contexts. The key areas covered typically include:

Listening Skills

• Understanding the main points of clear standard speech on familiar topics such as work, school, leisure, and travel.
• Following conversations, announcements, and short explanations in contexts like public transport, shops, or restaurants.

Speaking Skills

• Engaging in simple but sustained dialogues on topics like family, hobbies, preferences, or plans.
• Narrating events, experiences, and describing dreams, hopes, and ambitions.
• Offering brief explanations and expressing opinions on common topics.
• Participating in simulated real-life situations, such as making reservations, asking for directions, or shopping.

Reading Skills

• Comprehending short to medium-length texts, such as emails, articles, advertisements, and brochures.
• Identifying essential details and extracting information from notices, instructions, and basic formal documents.

Writing Skills

• Producing simple connected text on topics of personal interest.
• Writing informal emails or letters to friends or acquaintances.
• Summarizing familiar stories, events, or experiences.

Grammar

• Verb Tenses: Mastery of the present, passato prossimo, imperfetto, futuro semplice, and conditional tenses (e.g., “vorrei,” “sarei”).
• Modal Verbs: Deeper use of “potere,” “dovere,” and “volere” across various tenses.
• Pronouns: Use of direct and indirect object pronouns (e.g., “lo,” “la,” “gli,” “le”) and reflexive pronouns.
• Prepositions: Correct use of common prepositions and prepositional phrases.
• Conjunctions: Introduction to linking phrases like “mentre,” “perché,” “quindi.”
• Introduction to simple subjunctive (congiuntivo) in set phrases.

Vocabulary

• Expanding lexicon related to everyday life: food, clothing, transportation, holidays, and hobbies.
• Basic workplace and school-related vocabulary.
• Expressions for discussing emotions, preferences, and routines.

Cultural Awareness

• Familiarity with Italian customs, traditions, and holidays.
• Learning about Italian geography, famous landmarks, and regional diversity.
• Insights into daily life and social etiquette.

B1 learners develop the confidence to interact in a variety of scenarios with native speakers and lay the foundation for more advanced proficiency levels.

In addition to the structures provided in the previous levels, students are required have the knowledge and know the use of the following elements and forms of the Italian language:

• Definite and indefinite articles
• Position of the qualifying adjective
• Qualifying adjectives: comparative and superlative degree
• Personal pronouns: tonic forms and atonic forms, reflexive pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• Possessive, demonstrative and interrogative adjectives and pronouns
• Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
• Articulated prepositions
• Conjugation of the active and reflexive form of regular verbs, of modal verbs in the following modes and times:

– Subjunctive
– Conditional past
– Simple future and future perfect

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