WappingersCentralSchool District

Second Language Department

Course Syllabus

Course Name / Italian 2
Course Code / L323
Duration / Full Year
Grade / 9-12
Credit / 1.0
Rank / 1.00
Prerequisite / Must have passed Italian 8, Italian 1 or the equivalent.
Assessment / A Department final exam will be administered in June. The final exam counts as 20% of the final course average. Passing this course meets the minimum graduation requirement in foreign language.
Textbook / Parliamo Italiano (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Areas of Study / In level 2, students move beyond the State Education Department’s LOTE Checkpoint A proficiency level and begin preparing in earnest for the Regents exam at the end of level 3 (Checkpoint B). Topics, functions and situations remain the same as in the previous level, but are approached in a broader and deeper manner. Expanding vocabulary and an increasing understanding of more complicated verb forms and grammatical concepts allow the students to communicate more effectively and understand the target language in authentic situations.
  1. Personal Identification
  2. biographical information
  3. physical characteristics
  4. psychological characteristics
  5. House and Home
  6. types of lodging
  7. rooms and other lodging components
  8. Family
  9. family members
  10. family relationships
  11. Community and Neighborhood
  12. stores and facilities
  13. recreational opportunities
  14. parts of the city
  15. Physical Environment
  16. physical features
  17. climate and weather
  18. geography of Italy
  19. Meal taking/Food and Drink
  20. Types of food and drink
  21. mealtime interaction
  22. food preparation
  23. eating out
  24. Education
  25. school systems in Italy and America
  26. school life
  27. Shopping
  28. shopping facilities
  29. products and information
  30. shopping interactions and transactions
* Note: For each topic students will also be exposed to assorted multimedia presentations, e.g. listening comprehension, videos and print media.
Grammatical Structures
  1. noun/adjective agreement
  2. definite and indefinite articles
  3. prepositions, simple and complex
  4. present tense of regular verbs
  5. common irregular verbs and their uses
  6. possessive adjectives
  7. piacere
  8. interrogatives
  9. passato prossimo
  10. direct and indirect object pronouns
  11. adverbs

For Information / For a complete review of the NYS Learning Standards for Languages Other Than English (LOTE), see:

For a complete core curriculum for LOTE, (especially pp. 12 – 19), see:

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