The Online Conversation Classes program is an intensive program consisting of online classes, that prepares you to pass the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Italian Level B2 oral test. Its main objective is to help you acquire the oral skills you need to be able to certify your level and to promote your personal and professional growth by helping you to successfully learn Italian. 

If you want to improve yourself, bring about a positive change in your professional or personal life and obtain a certificate that demonstrates your proficiency in this language, then this training program is for you.

This is the most complete preparation program for developing communication skills in order to pass the official CEFR B2 level test. Study. Learn. BECOME CERTIFIED”

Presentation

Most Italian language academies and schools offer traditional teaching based on repeating simple linguistic structures with no connection to properly structured content or concrete skills. However, teachers and psychologists believe that the best way to stimulate language learning is not to subject the learner to formalized, linear learning - for example, with rote learning - but rather, to encourage imagination and learning through sensory exploration in order to be able to understand and interpret what is around us.

This allows the brain to work and learn a second language in the most natural way possible, in the same way that we learned our mother tongue.

The only intensive program 100% specifically designed to develop your speaking skills in order to obtain the CEFR Italian Level B2.

In the Online Conversation Classes for B2 Italian , we work on skills with more than 100 different oral expression and interaction activities and prepare you to pass the oral component of the official Italian B2 certificate.

It is proven that learning languages increases your intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks”

José Antonio Marina.
Philosopher, writer and teacher.

A unique and stimulating experience

Flexible and Tailored to You

Take the best Italian conversation program, at your own pace based on your personal availability and schedule.

Acquire Skills and Abilities

With our method you will practice and consolidate the oral communication skills required at this level.

Networking

Join a large community and exchange knowledge and experiences with students from all over the world.

An intensive study program designed for you, focused on your professional or personal improvement and that prepares you to pass the B2 oral test. A program that understands your needs and works the language through innovative content based on the latest trends and supported by the best educational methodology and an exceptional faculty, which will provide you with the skills to solve situations creatively and efficiently. This B2 preparation course takes place over four months and 40 sessions.

Where, When and How it is Taught

This course takes place over 4 months and consists of forty 60-minute live sessions taught by native-speaking teachers.

Each session is structured as follows:

• Practice of oral interaction skills
• Practice of oral expression skills
• Simulation of real situations
• Tips and tricks to prepare for the test
• Summary and closing
• Download printable sheets

The only intensive program that is 100% specifically designed to prepare you to pass the CEFR Italian Level B2 oral test”

BLOCK 1. Let’s Start at the Beginning    

Session 1. Personal presentation, personality and character adjectives and physical description, adjective to noun formation and verb to adjective formation.
Session 2. Feelings and emotions, verb to noun formations and idiomatic expressions related to adjectives. 

Objectives

• Ask and answer a series of direct questions 
• Emphasize the personal importance of some experiences, providing details and more elaborate explanations

BLOCK 2. The Socialization Process

Session 3. Different types of personal and social relationships, idiomatic expressions and compound adjectives formation. 
Session 4. Comparative and superlative adjectives, relative pronouns as a subject and object, substitution and ellipsis and the relative emphatic structures.
Session 5. Combinations of adjectives and prepositions and the articles.

Objectives

• Actively participate in formal and informal conversations
• Take the initiative when it is your time to speak, even if you need a little help

BLOCK 3. What’s my house like?

Session 6. Different types of housing, types of rooms, furniture and home appliances.
Session 7. Daily routines, idiomatic expressions, indirect questions, present simple vs. present continuous.
Session 8. Electronic appliances, description of size and shape, compound nouns, past participles as nouns and adjectives, consumer-related problems and how to file a complaint.

Objectives

• Emphasize the personal importance of some experiences, providing details and more elaborate explanations
• Use supporting sentences to save time and avoid losing your turn to speak and think about what you want to say.

BLOCK 4. My Future Begins Today

Session 9. Different learning methods and strategies, advantages and disadvantages of different education systems, how to express your preferences, give advice and offer suggestions
Session 10. Idiomatic expressions, how to make a conclusion, the simple present perfect vs. the continuous present perfect and future verb tenses
Session 11. Make suggestions with modal verbs in the past, obligation, permission, necessity and prohibition and the structure of prepositions together with relative pronouns 

Objectives

• Offer feedback and use phrases to maintain conversation, including inviting others to join the conversation 
• Adapt to different changes (style, tone, direction, emphasis, register, speed...) that can occur in a conversation

BLOCK 5. New Projects and Future Dreams 

Session 12. Professions, places of work, adverbial sentences of time and how to express regret and hypothesis
Session 13. Summer jobs, skills, grammatical structures with infinitives, verbs and argumentative connectors
Session 14. Prefixes and suffixes, idiomatic expressions, pronouns and possessive determiners, the present perfect vs. the past simple and other grammatical structures

Objectives

• Make use of a variety of connectors and other simple or more complex cohesive elements, with the aim of linking different sentences and ideas to create a coherent discourse
• Use supporting sentences to save time, avoid losing your turn to speak and think about what you want to say.

BLOCK 6. Enjoy Your Free Time

Session 15. Leisure and free time activities indoors and outdoors, revision of adjectives, modal verbs which express ability, idiomatic expressions to indicate different levels of liking and the structure of the immediate future
Session 16. Different types of art, idiomatic expressions, how to make formal and informal requests in a direct or indirect way, accept and reject invitations, agree and disagree with others and modal verbs which express expectation

Objectives

• Be capable of articulating oral communication in a fluid and effective away on different topics.
• Show good control of the language, allowing you to express explicit descriptions, points of view and reasonable arguments depending on the topic being discussed. Try to avoid lapses, rephrasing and repetition.

BLOCK 7. “A Balanced Diet Consists of Having a Cookie in Each Hand” Barbara Johnson

Session 17. Different types of food and drink, countable and uncountable nouns and comparative and superlative adjectives
Session 18. Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns and other idiomatic expressions

Objectives

• Demonstrate good grammatical control, without having to frequently limit what you want to say, and use the necessary structures most appropriate in any given situation There are some minor errors, but the candidate is able to correct themselves Communication isn’t affected

BLOCK 8. "Being Healthy on the Inside Means Being Healthy on the Outside." Robert Urich    

Session 19. The body and well-being, personal health, illnesses, symptoms, human sounds and actions, modal verbs for giving advice, treatment and alternative medicines
Session 20. Sports and the related professions, and the indirect style of communication

Objectives

• Be capable of articulating oral communication in a fluid and effective away on different topics, although at times there may be some hesitation as you try to locate the appropriate expressions. There may be longer pauses
• Communicate orally using clear and natural pronunciation and intonation

BLOCK 9. Fashion and Consumerism

Session 21. Clothes and sewing materials and idiomatic expressions related to the world of fashion
Session 22. Consumerism and the conditional tenses

Objectives

• Emphasize the personal importance of some experiences, providing details and more elaborate explanations
• Be capable of articulating oral communication in a fluid and effective away on different topics, although at times there may be some hesitation as you try to locate the appropriate expressions. There may be longer pauses

BLOCK 10. Knowing About Other Cultures Makes You Richer

Session 23. Holidays, effects of tourism and other idiomatic experiences 
Session 24. Cultures and traditions, the structure of nominal phrases with relative pronouns, how to speak about expectations and the experience of living in a foreign country

Objectives

• Present and speak about a wide range of topics related to your interests, arguing and describing in an appropriate way, speaking about secondary ideas and providing examples. In this way, putting emphasis on the most relevant aspects
• Providing arguments to speak about the advantages and disadvantages of a topic or specific point of view from a reasonable perspective, and expressing your ideas with conviction

BLOCK 11. Is it Always True?

Session 25. The entertainment industry, social networking and related jobs, definite and indefinite relative clauses and the passive voice
Session 26. Social media and past tenses 

Objectives

• Be capable of articulating oral communication in a fluid and effective away on different topics, although at times there may be some hesitation as you try to locate the appropriate expressions. There may be longer pauses
• Adapt to different changes (style, tone, direction, emphasis, register, speed...) that can occur in a conversation

BLOCK 12. How Much Do You Know About Geography?

Session 27. Topography, climate, seas, oceans and countries 
Session 28. The process of learning a foreign language and language disorders

Objectives

• Present and speak about a wide range of topics related to your interests, arguing and describing in an appropriate way, speaking about secondary ideas and providing examples. In this way, putting emphasis on the most relevant aspects
• Providing arguments to speak about the advantages and disadvantages of a topic or specific point of view from a reasonable perspective, and expressing your ideas with conviction
• Offer feedback and use phrases to maintain conversation, including inviting others to join the conversation

BLOCK 13. Looking After My City

Session 29. The city, ask for and give recommendations and prepositions of place
Session 30. Controversies in relation to the city and how to express personal opinion

Objectives

• Emphasize the personal importance of some experiences, providing details and more elaborate explanations
• Make use of a variety of connectors and other simple or more complex cohesive elements, with the aim of linking different sentences and ideas to create a coherent discourse

BLOCK 14. Objection, Your Honor!

Session 31. Crime and violence and the expressions and particles related ro verbal tenses in the past 
Session 32. Current controversies, political parties and regulations, how to express our point of view and offer alternatives, showing agreement and disagreement, the connectors of counterargument, addition and result, and the structure of modal verbs with the passive voice.

Objectives

• Actively participate in formal and informal conversations, including in places where there is some background noise
• Demonstrate good grammatical control, without having to frequently limit what you want to say, and use the necessary structures most appropriate in any given situation There are some minor errors, but the candidate is able to correct themselves Communication isn’t affected

BLOCK 15. How Much Money Do You Have in the Bank?

Session 33. Economy and the market
Session 34. Business, economy and consumerism, the use of the passive voice with verbs in the present continuous and present perfect, and the structure of nominal phrases with gerunds.

Objectives

• Ask and answer a series of direct questions
• Present and speak about a wide range of topics related to your interests, arguing and describing in an appropriate way, speaking about secondary ideas and providing examples. In this way, putting emphasis on the most relevant aspects
• Providing arguments to speak about the advantages and disadvantages of a topic or specific point of view from a reasonable perspective, and expressing your ideas with conviction

BLOCK 16. "Every Flower is a Soul that Blossoms in Nature." Gerard de Nerval

Session 35. The animal world and its classifications
Session 36. The plant world and its classifications

Objectives

• Emphasize the personal importance of some experiences, providing details and more elaborate explanations
• Evaluate, propose alternatives and present hypotheses in both formal and informal contexts

BLOCK 17. Is This the World We Are Going to Leave for Future

Session 37. The environment, weather and natural phenomena, infinitive phrases and sentences, past tense modal verbs to make deductions and express different levels of possibility and certainty, prepositions of cause and how to set medium- and long-term goals. 
Session 38. Science and the future continuous vs. the future perfect

Objectives

• Demonstrate good grammatical control, without having to frequently limit what you want to say, and use the necessary structures most appropriate in any given situation There are some minor errors, but the candidate is able to correct themselves Communication isn’t affected
• Show good control of the language, allowing you to express explicit descriptions, points of view and reasonable arguments depending on the topic being discussed. Try to avoid lapses, rephrasing and repetition.

BLOCK 18. "There are No Shortcuts to Anywhere That is Really Worth Going To." Anonymous

Session 39. Modes of transport, the automotive world and the future in the past
Session 40. Comprehensive Review

Objectives

• Make use of a variety of connectors and other simple or more complex cohesive elements, with the aim of linking different sentences and ideas to create a coherent discourse
• Be capable of articulating oral communication in a fluid and effective away on different topics, although at times there may be some hesitation as you try to locate the appropriate expressions. There may be longer pauses

In our sessions we work with the broadest and most complete syllabus on the market: the 44 specific topics required by the CEFR for the B2 level”

 

I have been trying to learn Italian for years, but with most online courses I found myself unmotivated and just gave up. With this course, I have felt supported, I have worked on simple things, little by little, through a large number of activities, and all of this was made possible by an excellent team of teachers and an exceptional group of colleagues. I managed to pass the exam with no problems. I am going for the second level next year and I can't wait to start!

Isabel Sánchez
A Student from Spain

I was offered a very interesting job in Oxford but I had to have proof of my Italian language level... fortunately, with this method I prepared myself quickly and in a very short time, I was able to accept the offer. I'm currently taking the B2 course and I'm hooked! The challenge, the motivation, and the originality and the novelty of the course make it really easy to learn a language.

Jorge Gomez
A Student from Colombia