Foreign Language Skills I: L’italiano per gli affair I

Contents

• Labor, occupations, environment and economy, tourism
• Globalization, crisis and unemployment
• Professional life in Italy
• Information about corporations
• Sales and trade, acquisition and sales – technical vocabulary of the respective fields
• Sales: types of corporations and their structure
• Cultural studies: socio-political and cultural topics (history, political system, educational and health system, parties and trade unions…)
• Italy and the EU
• Consolidation of word pool in these fields and of different grammatical topics up to GER-level B1/B2

Learning outcomes
By the end of the module students improved their listening and reading comprehension. Students gained the basics of language competencies and developed a well-founded vocabulary. Students improved their cultural and economic knowledge.

Necessary prerequisites
At least 3 years of Italian in high school with good results (respectively Level B2 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages”), the selection is made with the help of a language test.

Recommended prerequisites
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