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Lesson plan: 1) Use slides 2,3,4,5 to introduce the language necessary to buy food at market 2) Use slide 6 to teach articulate prepositions and slide 7 as an exercise 3) Role play. Using Italian supermarket magazines and slide 8 as a prompt, students buy and sell food.

1) Students describe a sitting room using articulate prepositions e.g. il cane e' sul tappeto 2) Students pair clipart objects and their meanings and then take turns to place them in various places in the sitting room. They will need to use articulate prepositions, destra, sinistra, vicino a, sopra, sotto

Dialogues to practise the formal and informal address, to introduce oneself using the right intonation depending on whether we are making a statement of asking a question

Cut the cards and then give one card to each student. Ask the students to find all the information that is missing on their cards. To do this they have to walk around the room and ask their colleagues questions.

Using the future tense to make conjectures and suppositions.

The resources contained in this collection can be used to teach beginner and intermediate Italian students.

Staged preparation to Oral EMA to be carried out during a tutorial and then by students on their own. The first stages gradually get the students ready for a discussion. By the time they get to the final stage, the students should be ready to give a presentation.

Say where you come from

Students take part in a role play (how to ask for and give personal details)

Providing personal details by making simple sentences

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Activity written in Ferrara after a Performing Languages workshop held at the Teatro Comunale

Video on pronunciation of consonants in Italian: letter "s".

Dyslexic friendly activity on how to pronounce the two Italian graphemes /gn/ and /ng/

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Il cosmonauta

A video clip describing an Italian apartment. The plan of the apartment is taken from Vivace, p.157.

Expressing likes and dislikes and to what degree, talking about food

Making an arrangement to see someone

A Jing video on how to pronounce double consonant 'll' with a a tongue-twister for practice.

Warming up activities be carried out at the beginning of an Elluminate session while waiting for everybody to come in. They are also a fun way to test microphones and connections. They can be used f2f as well.

Explain the use of su+article and ask the students to move the words next to the correct preposition