This course is aimed at students interested in taking the CILS B1 Citizenship exam which is required for gaining Italian Citizenship.
The Preparation Course
The B1 Citizenship course requires a previous knowledge of the Italian language at B1 level.
Lessons take place face-to-face, once a week, on Wednesdays (6:30-8:30) for 6 weeks at our school.
The course also requires self-study time between sessions.
Each course must reach a minimum number of 4 students to be confirmed to run.
What will I learn?
During the course you will:
– practise written and oral exercises on mock tests
– focus on the main grammatical parts
– analyse the strategies to be used in the exam
– review basic and necessary vocabulary to be used in texts and conversations
– produce and understand written texts, both formal and informal
Coursebook
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Percorso CILS Cittadinanza B1 – Test di preparazione + online audio
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ISBN 9786188492776
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Authors – Emanuela Paciotti & Paolo La Gamma
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Publisher – Ornimi
Syllabus
You can find the official syllabus for the B1 Citizenship exam from the University of Siena on this link: https://cils.unistrasi.it/public/articoli/357/B1%20Cittadinanza_Sillabo.pdf
Why should I do this course?
With this course:
– you will have the opportunity to practise similar tasks to the exam
– you will be more confident when you take the exam
– you will be able to anticipate problems
What’s included?
– materials based on past examinations and mock tests
– materials with grammatical focus, based on the syllabus
– thematic vocabulary
– support on writing and important tips with hints and errors to avoid
Course Schedule
- Classes will take place at our school in Covent Garden (16 Stukeley Street, Holborn, London WC2B 5LQ)
- The course takes place on weekday evenings 18:30 – 20:30
- The possible options for this course are as follows:
Tuesdays: 7th January – 11th February (exam 13th February) 2025
Thursdays: 20th February – 27th March (exam 9th April) 2025
Thursdays: 3rd April – 15th May (exam 11th June) 2025*
Thursdays: 22nd May – 26th June (exam 16th July) 2025
Thursdays: 14th August – 25th September(exam 16th October) 2025**
Thursdays: 2nd October – 7th November (exam 4th December) 2025
*No lesson 24th April. The course will consist of 6 lessons.
**No lesson 28th August. The course will consist of 6 lessons.
Fee
The fee for our 6-week preparatory course is £198.
This fee is for the course only and is separate from the exam fee.
Need assistance choosing your course?
Take a look at our FAQs page which has lots of information about our classes.
FAQs – Foreign LanguagesThe Exam
Italian B1 Citizenship – CILS B1 CITTADINANZA
The B1 Citizenship exam is aimed at adults, living in Italy or abroad, interested in obtaining Italian citizenship (Law 1 December 2018, no. 132).
This exam certifies competence with reference to the autonomous learner profile of the CEFR and therefore tests the linguistic communicative skills needed to use the Italian language appropriately in contexts and communicative situations relating to life in Italy, in the personal sphere, in public contexts, at work and in training.
Those who possess this level of competence can understand the essential points of a clearly articulated speech in standard Italian, to read written texts that they encounter most frequently in everyday life and in communicative situations in Italian. Oral and written production is communicatively effective, even if it contains errors.
Having specific objectives, the CILS B1 Cittadinanza exam has a different construct and format from the CILS UNO B1 exam. In particular, the B1 Cittadinanza describes a much more limited portion of competence than the standard B1 and for this reason it has a spendability limited to citizenship purposes only. This exam does not cover working and academic aims.
The CILS UNO-B1 Cittadinanza has to be passed in full: if candidates fail one part of the exam, they have to do the whole exam again.
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