New Teachers To Head Continuing Education Italian





Garden City Continuing Education will be offering Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Italian classes with new teachers.

Debbie Fusco-Gerek, Garden City resident, will teach Beginners, and comes with nine years of heading her I.A.C.E. (Italian American Committee on Education) program at St. Brigid’s in Westbury, teaching children and adults her second language. From Boston College she holds a B.A. in Education and M.B.A. from Hofstra University. Debbie has had an Italian gourmet food import company for eleven years.

The Beginning level will start with word production, verb recognition/conjugation and sentence composition for overall comprehension. Students will be immersed in the Italian language and culture in a fun and easy manner. Debbie will teach class according to pace of students.

Ida Corvino Miletich will be teacher for the Intermediate and Advanced students.

Ida is currently a teacher of Italian in the IACE program at St. Brigid’s, Westbury. She holds a B.A. in Italian from Marymount Manhattan College and an M.A. from Columbia University. She also holds NYS 7-12 Certification.

The Intermediate level Italian class focuses on the development of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing in Italian at an intermediate level. Students will engage in conversation, listen to authentic aural communication, read essays and write short letters.

The advanced level Italian class stresses further development of proficiency, integrating more complex language structures. Students will participate in discussion of selected reading material. Audio Cassettes, CD’s and videos will be utilized to supplement and enhance instruction.

Classes were originally scheduled to begin early October, now pushed back in observance to holidays. New start days follow below. Each class meets at 9-10:30 AM, in the Administration Building, Room 4.

Oct. 16- ITALIAN BEGINNER, Mondays

Oct. 17- ITALIAN INTERMEDIATE, Tuesdays

Oct. 18- ITALIAN ADVANCED, Wednesdays

The cost for each class is $70 for residents and $75 for non-residents and offered at 10 sessions. Register in person or call to receive brochure at Office of Continuing Education, Administration Building, 56 Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 4 PM, Tel. 478-1070.




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