Via del Corso

Telis Marin, Pierangela Diadori

Multimedia course of Italian language and civilization

Features

Via del Corso is addressed to adult and young adult students of A1 level. It is an innovative Italian language and culture course. It is divided into four levels, and revolves around a story that aims at having students communicate with each other from the very first lessons. The story has a strong impact on students: it intrigues and motivates them while it creates excitement and empathy, acting as a catalyst for the learning process.

It is a noir comedy narrated through a sit-com and a graphic novel. In this first volume, the story takes place in Rome. Video and comic strips are fully integrated in the structure of the course and do not just represent an extra resource. Students are directly involved as they can themselves choose the ending of the story.

In order to facilitate the lesson, all episodes are also presented on the Audio-CD as radio drama, while the animated version of the comic strips is also available on the DVD. This choice strengthens the oral and written inputs, which result in being more coherent from a communicative and pragmatic point of view.

Other features of Via del Corso:

• Gradual progression: taken into account to meet students’ needs and the linguistic level of reference
• Playful activities: included in all four the student’s book, the workbook, the teacher’s guide and the i-d-e-e platform; the activities also include many different educational games connected in a gamification scheme
• Inductive approach: through guided activities, students are constantly invited to discover new inputs, to make and to verify hypothesis
• Short units and inputs: for a faster and more flexible course, to minimize the affective filter and to maintain students’ motivation stable
• Modern language: students are introduced to spontaneous and natural dialogues, including language interjections, idioms and useful expressions of everyday life
• Active teaching: problem solving, information gap, task-based activities and cooperative activities are included to increase students’ involvement and to make them more independent
• Cultural and intercultural aspects: they can be found both in the units and in the section Italia&italiani; they are also supported by authentic videos created ad hoc
• Macro -and micro- spiral approach: the vocabulary is systematically revisited to allow students to consolidate new inputs
• Layout: both the student’s book and the workbook are in full colour, featuring creative, clear, captivating and functional layout

To learn more, you can browse and/or print the index, introduction as well as the first three units of the book. You can also listen to some of the audio tracks and watch the video episodes of the sit-com by clicking on the icons.

Specimen A1
Specimen A2

Via del Corso A1 for English speakers (+ 2 CD audio + DVD video)

Telis Marin, Pierangela Diadori

Italian course for English-speaking students. Beginners A1

Via del Corso is aimed at adult A1 level students. This innovative 4-level manual is based around a story, an original black comedy, which is narrated through a sit-com and a graphic novel. Students are personally involved as it is up to them to choose how the story ends. 

In the Via del Corso A1 edition for English-speaking students, all activities, objectives of the units and the grammar summaries are in English. Moreover, the manual is completed by the Grammar Supplement and Italian-English Glossary with the translation of the words and expressions found in the Student’s book.

The book contains Student’s Book, Workbook, 2 audio CDs and 1 DVD.

Browse the SPECIMEN with the first six units of the volume with their respective Workbook units. Click on the icons to listen to some of the tracks.

Via del Corso A2 for English speakers (+ 2 CD audio + DVD video)

Telis Marin, Pierangela Diadori

Italian course for English-speaking students. Beginners A2

Via del Corso is aimed at adult and young adults A2 level students. This innovative 4-level manual is based around a story, an original black comedy, which is narrated through a sit-com and a graphic novel. Students are personally involved as it is up to them to choose how the story ends.

In the Via del Corso A2 edition for English-speaking students, all activities, objectives of the units and the grammar summaries are in English. Moreover, the manual is completed by the Grammar Supplement and Italian-English Glossary with the translation of the words and expressions found in the Student’s book.

The book contains Student’s Book, Workbook, 2 audio CDs and 1 DVD.

Browse the SPECIMEN with the first two teaching units of the volume.