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3 months to complete Flexible duration, adapted to your schedule
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Course duration: 3 months

Learning portal: 90 hours+

Private classes: 12 x 60 min.

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Official curriculum Structured courses from A1 to B2
  • 4.79/5
Quality guarantee
Private classes with a personal teacher Individual classes or private groups.
3 months to complete Flexible duration, adapted to your schedule
Learning portal App + PDF downloads
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Exam preparation
Aligned with Celi
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Course description

Be ready to pass the CILS exam at your chosen level

What you will learn

  • You will be prepared to pass the CILS exam from beginner (A1) to mastery (C2).
  • Speaking: Practice structured oral tasks from official CILS formats in personal, academic and workplace contexts.
  • Listening: Improve comprehension with authentic CILS audio tasks and timed listening exercises.
  • Reading: Learn how to analyze real-world and test-style texts effectively.
  • Writing: Master writing tasks (emails, descriptions, reports) with coherence suited to your level.
  • Exam Skills: Train with mock CILS exams and test-taking strategies tailored to CILS standards.

Who is this course for?

  • You are planning to live, work, or study in Italy.
  • You need a targeted and efficient course, not generic language lessons.
  • Designed for busy professionals.
  • No time wasted, just real progress with expert guidance and proven results.

This course in short

  • Custom plan: Your CILS-trained tutor will create a personalized study path.
  • Ongoing support: Get consistent feedback and encouragement from your certified teacher.
  • CILS-focused preparation: All materials and tasks are aligned with official CILS exam structure.

How do you study?

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1:1 conversation classes

Training and guidance from assigned teacher

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Structured online course

Includes learning materials ideal for exam preparation

Worksheets with vocabulary

Download and learn offline

Ebook and PDF downloads of every lesson available.

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Modules

The Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera (CILS) is an internationally recognized qualification awarded by the Università per Stranieri di Siena. It certifies proficiency in Italian as a second language across six CEFR levels (A1 to C2). The exam also serves specific purposes, including citizenship and work requirements in Italy.

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

  • Introducing oneself and others
  • Talking about age, nationality, and daily routines
  • Understanding timetables, signs, and simple instructions
  • Writing short phrases: greetings, postcards
  • Listening to basic conversations (e.g., at the bar, station)
  • Filling in forms with personal data

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

  • Describing routine, family and work
  • Writing short messages, letters, or notes
  • Reading short texts: emails, ads, posters
  • Role-playing situations (e.g., booking, asking for directions)
  • Expressing preferences and needs
  • Understanding short dialogues in shops, travel or at home

Grammar

  • Confident use of present, passato prossimo, imperfetto, and future
  • Subordinate clauses
  • Conditional present and past
  • Combined pronouns (me lo, glielo…)
  • Passive voice (present and past)
  • Adverbs of manner and frequency

Practice and Situations

  • Writing emails, diary entries, informal and semi-formal texts
  • Giving and asking for opinions and advice
  • Reading articles, notices, menus and announcements
  • Role-playing real-life scenarios (e.g., complaints, recommendations)
  • Understanding recorded voicemails, interviews
  • Speaking about experiences, preferences, plans and news

Grammar

  • All indicative tenses (including trapassato prossimo)
  • Present and past conditional
  • Subjunctive in dependent clauses
  • Passive and impersonal constructions
  • Gerunds and infinitive phrases
  • Indirect and interrogative questions
  • Mastery of prepositions and connectors

Practice and Situations

  • Writing formal letters, essays, opinion articles
  • Expressing agreement/disagreement and justifying opinions
  • Interpreting editorial texts, reviews, surveys and letters
  • Understanding multi-speaker dialogues, news, interviews
  • Role-plays in institutional, professional or educational settings
  • Summarizing or commenting on visual/textual materials

Grammar

  • Full control of all verb tenses and moods
  • Mastery of subjunctive and conditional in all uses
  • Use of impersonal/passive and pronominal verbs
  • Complex sentence structures: hypothetical, concessive, relative, temporal
  • High-level connectors and discourse markers
  • Advanced lexical derivation and idiomatic expressions

Practice and Situations

  • Writing argumentative essays, reports, and academic-style texts
  • Debating abstract and professional topics
  • Analyzing articles from literature, news, and technical sources
  • Understanding and interpreting lectures, debates, broadcasts
  • Evaluating and commenting on different perspectives
  • Oral fluency in structured and unstructured settings

Grammar

  • Mastery of all grammar forms and registers
  • Advanced command of idiomatic, formal, academic, and literary language
  • Passive and impersonal in complex structures
  • Precision in stylistic shifts (formal/informal/neutral)
  • Use of discourse strategies in argumentative and narrative discourse

Practice and Situations

  • Writing critical essays, reviews, proposals and formal reports
  • Interpreting and producing texts with abstract, cultural or philosophical content
  • Engaging in expert-level oral discussion, negotiation and interpretation
  • Reading and analyzing literary, legal and academic texts
  • Demonstrating pragmatic competence in formal interactions and academic setting 
  • 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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