Meeting Times

• Tuesday 9/30/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 10/7/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 10/14/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 10/21/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 11/4/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 11/11/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
• Tuesday 11/18/2025, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Description

Material Fee: $10.00 due in exact change the first night of class. (Also payable to the instructor through PayPal or Venmo).

Material Fee includes: A binder with all the PowerPoint slides of the lessons with the grammar, glossary and activities.

Syllabus:

7 Sessions (75 minutes each)

Session 1: Greetings; body language; Italian nouns and articles; Italian gestures, speaking and listening activities (songs, videos), exercises 

Session 2: Italian pronunciation, personal pronouns, auxiliar verbs, verbs at present tense, personal introduction, Italian culture, reading, listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Session 3: numbers, hours, money (euro), Italian meals, food names, Italian culture, reading, speaking listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Session 4: ordering breakfast, lunch and dinner, reading a menu, prices, numbers, reading, Italian culture, speaking and listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Session 5: Irregular verbs, prepositions, Italian culture, reading, speaking and listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Session 6: Adjectives, describing a person/celebrity, clothes sizes and description, how to go shopping in Italy, Italian culture, reading, speaking and listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Session 7: Verbs at past tense (Passato Prossimo), exercises, verb “to like”, Italian culture, reading, speaking and listening activities (songs, videos), exercises

Bio

My name is Fabiana and I am an Italian teacher and tutor. 

I grew up in in Italy where I graduated in Italian Language and Literature at the Universita’ di Lettere e Filosofia in Parma and at the same time I pursued Violin performance and music studies at the Conservatorio di Musica “Arrigo Boito”. Embracing these different but related academic disciplines had enriched me with an interdisciplinary approach and knowledge that I rely on as a teacher. 

My experience in teaching started during the High school and University years, working as private tutor and later as Elementary classroom teacher in Italy.

Since I moved abroad to my family more than 15 years ago, I have focused my career on teaching Italian as a second language. I learnt English and Norwegian languages (achieving a IELTS exam and a NORINT certification from the University of Stavanger) to be able to work as Italian tutor and course instructor in the UK, in Norway and in the US, where I have been living since 2018 in the beautiful town of Guilford.  I work as Adjunct Professor at the University of New Haven and I work as Italian tutor for the language school Aux 3 Pommes, LLC Foreign Language School. In January 2025 I started my own Teaching platform ( https://ciaoitalianlessons.com/) where I offer courses, classes and seminars of Italian and Latin languages online and in person for private students, libraries and Adult Education Centers. 

When I am free I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, running and going to concerts and theater.