Life Skills, Hobbies, Country Pursuits and Sport

Progress your reading, speaking and listening skills and improve your confidence in Italian with 'La Vita Bella', our Italian Improvers class.

In this course you will learn about how to talk about families, professions, physical and personality description; how to converse about daily routine and weather conditions; you will also practice the past tense when talking about holidays and finally shopping for clothes!!!

The course will include cultural topics and we will discover places like, Taormina in Sicily, Vieste in Puglia and the Roman sites of Tharros and Nora in Sardinia.

(This course is aimed at students with some knowledge of the Italian language, who can deal with everyday needs and present tense and students who attended the beginner's course at MCSS).

Alessandra Murgia

About Alessandra

Alessandra has a very high reputation across the region as one of our top linguists and Italian tutors. Alessandra has been a valued tutor at our Marlborough College Summer School for over 10 years in succession. She enjoys Chartered Linguist status with Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and also works for the prestigious Oxford University. She is a tutor for the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham and an examiner for the Ministry of Defence.

Alessandra founded the Italian Experience Cotswold in 2017 and this company now runs courses in Italian all year round and for participants across the UK. Her courses at the Summer School are frequently sold out and this year -for the first time- the Summer School boasts a week for advanced level students

Alessandra has taught for 23years in the UK at all levels, from beginners to advanced. When working for colleges in Wiltshire, Alessandra's students often achieved top 5 marks in the UK at GCSE and Advanced Level. She has assisted in the editing of text books for Oxford University Press (for the international market) and updates her training and linguistic practice at the highly regarded DILIT International School in Rome.