Patrizia Flammini, Tania Pasqualini
Course of Italian as a foreign language (A2)
Features
Senza frontiere is a two-volume Italian course book for adult immigrants and foreigners who know how to read and write in their own languages. It covers levels A1-A2 of the Common European Framework and it has been designed to be used in a group class taught by a teacher.
Senza frontiere 2 covers the A2 level and includes the following:
- Student’s book with Audio-CD
- Workbook
All materials and topics have been carefully selected to be motivating, authentic and deeply related to the students’ reality. That is why
Senza frontiere 2 aims at teaching the ‘know-how’ usage of the language: enlisting in a course by filling a form, finding directions in an office building by following signaling and instructions found in forms, compiling a curriculum vitae, understanding weather forecasts and being able to talk about it, and so forward.
Senza frontiere also contains useful images to introduce vocabulary, contextualize topics and develop various exercise typologies.
The Student’s book offers a clear and well-defined structure in accordance with the cohesion and consistency of the aspects related to vocabulary, communication and grammar.
It is organized in three modules (Well-being, The Past, The Present) each of them consisting of four units covering personal, professional, educational and public aspects. Each of those twelve units is divided into two lessons. At the end of the book, a final test of A2 level evaluates the actual progress.
A unit is organized as follows:
Vocabulary introduction page, including key-words used throughout the unit. Vocabulary is accompanied by stimulating images and exercises allowing to verify comprehension;
Lessons A and B focused on developing the four language skills: listening, reading, speaking, writing;
The civiltà e cittadinanza section with educational elements to motivate students to become active citizens, focused in particular on the areas of labor, education, health, services. This section also presents civilization elements such as festivities, intercultural centers, Italian immigration and so on;
The per parlare and per scrivere sections alternate with one another in the book. They are designed to creatively develop speaking and writing abilities respectively, while presenting arguments in accordance to each unit on both a thematic and didactic level.
Self-evaluation page to raise awareness of the progress achieved
The Workbook contains exercises corresponding to each unit of the Student’s book. The students consolidate what they have learned during the lesson through: exercises of vocabulary consolidation and revision; communicational skills strengthening activities, reading and writing tasks and grammar exercises: each grammar element is presented separately so that students can focus all their attention one phenomenon at a time.