Intermediate Italian: describing people

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Intermediate Italian: describing people provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1  Physical appearance
    • Describing people's faces
    • Describing physical characteristics
    • Understanding spoken physical descriptions
    • Forming physical descriptions
    • Practising describing people
    • Listening to descriptions
    • 2  Comparing
    • Comparing people using più … di or meno … di
    • Comparing two people using come or quanto
    • Practising comparing people
    • 3  Personality
    • Listening to descriptions
    • Describing someone’s personality
    • Understanding written descriptions
    • Practising describing people
    • Useful adjectives for describing people
    • 4  Literary description
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    • Scan-reading a text
    • Checking meaning
    • Detailed reading
    • Opposites
    • Writing a description yourself
    • Conclusion
    • Take the next step
    • References
    • Acknowledgements