Course Details

Italian for Beginners 2

Academic Year 2026/27

VYI002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

In the first lessons of the course, students will review the knowledge acquired in course VYI001, focusing primarily on the regular verb system, irregular verbs, and plural formation. Students are already able to introduce themselves and talk about themselves and their hobbies. They will gradually begin to learn basic simple prepositions and, later on, directional prepositions combined with the definite article. They will be introduced to all modal verbs (volere, dovere, sapere, potere) and learn how to use basic object pronouns.

Students will be able to talk about a city (sights, shops), ask for directions, and give directions. They will also learn how to tell the time. They will be capable of ordering in a restaurant, expressing satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and criticism, as well as asking for the price and booking a table in a restaurant.

The course emphasizes speaking, pair work, and group work. Lessons include videos, listening activities, songs, and games.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

To the extent of obligatory and optional subjekt of „Italian“ for Begginers “ VYI001

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • Week 1: Review of Units 1 and 2; introducing oneself

  • Week 2: Vocabulary: the city; review of irregular verbs

  • Week 3: Prepositions in, a, per; the verbs to be able to/can (potere) and to want (volere)

  • Week 4: Navigating the city; prepositions of place; prepositions combined with the definite article

  • Week 5: The verbs to have to/must (dovere) and to know how to/can (sapere); asking for and giving directions

  • Week 6: Shopping, asking for the price; travelling by public transport

  • Week 7: Telling the time; At what time...?; days of the week

  • Week 8: Vocabulary: food, drinks, restaurant

  • Week 9: What do I eat during the day? What do I like/enjoy eating?

  • Week 10: Bene vs. buono; object pronouns (lo, la, li, le)

  • Week 11: Venire da; ordering in a restaurant; creating a restaurant menu

  • Week 12: Review of Units 3 and 4; group conversation

  • Week 13: Summary of the material; credit test (final test)