I am teaching the most effective of methods, for what I see are my students' results: the old way.
That means Phonetics, Alphabet, Spelling, Teaching of tenses ( two of the Past, two of the Present, two of the Future, If clause, Passive, Imperative) and the other parts of grammar.
I focus on students' undertanding of the mechanism to learn foreign languages, not very much on giving enormous amounts of exercises.
Learning Italian should become a cultural stimulus, a means to communicate properly and pass examinations. Curious students learn effectively.
We will speak and learn also the best way to communicate using the different codex in all different situations, always caring about being correct in grammar and elegant in communication.