Italian language
Art courses
Art History
School group courses
Specific Italian
language courses
These courses aim to develop special linguistic skills and a
specific terminology area. Classes are held on an individual basis (or
in small groups) so the student will have lessons tailored to his/her
personal language needs.
The learning programme and the timetable can be fitted to the needs of
the individual student. We highly recommend a minimum of
10 hours of tuition in addition to the homework and
study that each student will be requested to dedicate to.
Our textbook will be integrated by other exhaustive documents and
teaching material, whose accurate selection and presentation will be
made by our teachers.
A wide variety of real-life material such as, television programmes,
newspapers and magazine extracts, as well as our blog articles (www.adgblog.it)
will encourage the student to take part actively to the lessons.
Moreover, private lessons can also be carried on after your stay in
Florence has finished, since you will be given the opportunity to keep in
touch with your teacher
through Skype or MSN
Messenger.
Students can take either the below recommended study modules or ask for
more made-to-measure lessons whose aim is always to meet with the
students’ wants.
Business Italian
This course aims to improve students' communication skills by means of close analysis of international affairs and management-related topics. It also intends to make the student familiar with the commonest situations inside an Italian company, as well as specific texts of business Italian:- agenda setting, writing letters, faxes and e-mails;
- problem solving and negotiations (agreeing and disagreeing), presentation of an outlined project;
- differences among small, medium and large size companies;
- reading comprehensions of contracts, economic analysis, circulars issued by banks and insurance companies;
- use of articles taken from specialized newspapers and magazines, such as Il Sole 24 ore.
Those who wish to attend this course are requested to have at least a sound knowledge of Italian, that is a B1 level according to the European Language Portfolio. In addition, the students are also offered the opportunity to take the officially recognised tests CIC I and CIC A.
Italian and the Tourist Industry
This course provides students with essential skills which
enable them to understand and write texts and letters in relation to
tourism-related topics, and to enhance their communication skills.
It covers a range of work areas (hotels, restaurants, travel agencies)
and focuses on the employees dealing with customers in a variety of
typical situations:
- professional communication skills (dialogues, hotel and travel
reservations, writing letters, faxes and e-mails);
- various types of tourism, means of transportations in Italy,
economical and touristic geography of the country, accommodation and
restaurants, new trends and classic tours;
- writing extended prose to meet a specified purpose, e.g. the
composition of a promotional letter, brochure, report, memo,
exploratory letter, press article, etc.
Those who wish to attend this course are requested to have at least a
sound knowledge of Italian, that is a B1 level
according to the European Language Portfolio.
Translation
English-Italian/Italian-English
This course approaches the techniques of translation by examining a large collection of texts and by focusing on the translation of idiomatic expressions, as well as of literary excerpts, business articles and short scientific essays. Reference books: Cento Passi da tradurre a cura di Edwige Schulte, Liguori Editore; Translation revisited, a cura di Nicholas Brownlees e John Denton, edizioni Cremonese.
Tuition fees
Specific courses- SP/1 1 hour of one-to-one tuition€40
- SP/10 10 hrs of one-to-one tuition€400
- SP/20 20 hrs of one-to-one tuition€760
- Enrolment fee€45
The course prices include
Course material (for a minimum of 10 hours)
A certificate at the end of the course
Italian and the Fashion Industry
This course normally consists of three parts: the first part
is devoted to specific terminology, the second part to Italian fashion
and the last part to a discussion on the binary concepts of fashion and
society. Lessons may deal with the following main topics:
- brief history of Italian fashion;
- clothing and accessories, colours and textiles, at the tailor’s shop;
- Italian brand names and fashion designers;
- reading comprehensions from fashion magazines and blogs;
- the presentation of a model, strategies of marketing;
- visit to the Gallery of Costume
in Florence and to the Textile Museum
in Prato.
Those who wish to attend this course are requested to have at least a
sound knowledge of Italian, that is a B1 level
according to the European Language Portfolio.
Italian for Cooking
This course addresses to those who are eager to approach the
study of gastronomic sciences. It is ideal for those who wish to become
familiar with Italian food and beverages as well as improve cooking
terminology with ease and accuracy, both orally and in writing.
- Brief History of various regional cuisine traditions from the Romans
to nowadays;
- comprehending and writing the main recipes, Italian cooking and
drinking habits;
- economic and gastronomic geography of the country;
- different places to eat and drink;
- understanding articles taken from cooking magazines or websites such
as slowfood.com,
videos of recipes from our blog.
Those who wish to attend this course are requested to have at least a
sound knowledge of Italian, that is a B1 level
according to the European Language Portfolio.
Preparatory courses for Italian
Universities
Preparatory courses to the admission language and culture exams for the most important Italian universities and academies.
Italian for teachers
This course has been conceived for those teachers of Italian as a foreign language who wish to improve their quality of teaching, acquire updated information on Italy and its culture, as well as learn and experiment new teaching methods for their future language classes. Please visit this page for the detailed programme (in Italian).
Examination preparation
Preparation to official exams testing the student's knowledge of the Italian language, i.e. CILS or CELI exams.
More Italian courses
- Italian small classes
- Italian one-to-one
- Italian crash courses
- Specific Italian
- Home Tuition
- On-line Italian
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Since 1995 all our courses have taken place in the school premises and have been held by our qualified and experienced teaching staff. We are not a school selling courses which afterwards other schools or institutes take charge of. That is why we offer only a selected choice of courses, whose programmes and schedule have been tested and improved throughout these years.