CELI exam preparation course

The Certificato di Conoscenza della Lingua Italiana (CELI) is an official certification issued by the Università per Stranieri di Perugia through its CVCL centre. It is recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and carries an ALTE “Q Mark” quality label.

Grammar

• Regular verbs and common irregular verbs
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Personal subject pronouns
• Possessive adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
• Gender and number of nouns
• Prepositions
• Basic prepositions of place and time
• Basic connectors
• Reflexive verbs

Practice and situations

• Greetings, goodbyes
• Personal introductions
• Talking about time and routine
• Ordering food, shopping
• Asking/giving directions
• Dialogues for shopping, food, directions
• Family and daily situations

Grammar 

• Imperfetto
• Futuro semplice and present conditional tenses
• Hypothetical structures
• Imperatives: regular, irregular and negative
• Comparisons: regular/irregular, superlatives
• Expressing cause and purpose
• Impersonal constructions
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Advanced conjunctions
• Introduction to the subjunctive
• Indirect speech with the past tense

Practice and situations

• Talking about oneself (family, job, routine, interests)
• Writing short texts: informal letters, postcards, brief descriptions
• Completing short narrative or informative texts with missing words
• Signs, announcements, schedules, forms
• Role-play common everyday situations (e.g., asking for info, shopping, booking)
• Describing past or future personal events
• Handling basic oral interactions: thanking, apologizing, saying goodbye

Grammar

• Confident use of present, passato prossimo, imperfetto and future simple
• Agreement of the past participle
• Subordinate clauses
• Compound sentences using coordination
• Combined pronouns
• Interjections
• Common coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
• Simple and articulated prepositions

Practice and Situations

• Writing letters, messages, diary entries, or notices
• Engaging in role-plays: booking a room, making a complaint, giving advice
• Giving and asking for opinions, preferences, and suggestions
• Understanding everyday conversations: instructions, dialogues, voicemails
• Reading and interpreting ads, menus, posters, emails, and short articles
• Discussing topics like work, hobbies, trips, cities or recent news

Grammar

• Confident use of all indicative tenses
• Use of conditional present and past
• Mastery of subjunctive mood in dependent clauses
• Passive and impersonal constructions
• Relative and indirect questions
• Use of gerunds and infinitive clauses
• Command of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

Practice and Situations

• Writing formal and informal texts: opinion articles, complaint letters, social commentary
• Role-plays in bureaucratic, educational or workplace settings
• Expressing hypotheses, agreement/disagreement, nuanced opinions
• Understanding longer, multi-speaker conversations: interviews, news, announcements
• Reading and analyzing editorials, reviews, surveys, official documents
• Summarizing and commenting on written or visual materials 

Grammar

• Confident and flexible use of all verb moods and tenses
• Mastery of complex sentence structures
• Use of hypothetical constructions (second and third conditional)
• Mastery of impersonal forms and passive voice
• Precise use of pronominal particles
• Mastery of linking and discourse markers for argumentation and narration

Practice and Situations

• Writing structured texts: formal emails, reports, proposals, argumentative essays
• Oral presentations and debates on abstract, academic or professional topics
• Handling formal interactions: interviews, negotiations, inquiries
• Understanding complex spoken Italian: lectures, debates, radio/TV discussions
• Reading and analyzing sophisticated materials: essays, editorials, academic texts
• Commenting on and evaluating information from multiple sources (visual and textual)

Grammar

• Full control of all tenses
• Mastery of hypothetical periods (real, potential, and unreal)
• Use of nuanced register distinctions (formal, informal, professional)
• Advanced lexical derivation and idiomatic expressions
• Passive and impersonal forms, including reflexive passives
• Proper use of synonyms, connectors, and discourse markers

Practice and Situations

• Writing complex argumentative essays, reviews, reports, and official letters
• Summarizing and critically reflecting on literary, journalistic, and academic texts
• Engaging in advanced oral debates: defending positions, evaluating arguments
• Reading and analyzing legal, philosophical, and scientific texts
• Commenting on cultural content, visual stimuli, or abstract topics
• Demonstrating pragmatic awareness

• Flexible scheduling to match your availability
• Interactive sessions focusing on all four competencies and exam technique
• Personalized guidance to build accuracy, fluency, and confidence

• Sit full mock exams replicating the format and timing of your target CELI level
• Develop effective time management and task-approach strategies.
• Familiarize with official scoring and rubrics: Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking.

• Official CELI audio files, reading texts, writing prompts, and grammar/vocabulary support.
• Exercises designed to reflect real exam with credentialed instructor feedback.
• Exam simulation to ensure you’re relaxed and prepared on the day.

• Learn to tackle CELI-specific task formats effectively.
• Enhance your ability to interpret moderately complex texts and dialogues under exam pressure.
• Construct well-organized, cohesive texts matching level expectations.

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