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Exploring the tradition of the popular theatre of the 'Pupi' (puppets)from Sicily; learning vocabulary / verbs; practsing reading / speaking skills
Information gap for pair work. Students look at their diaries and try to find a day to meet
Students take it in turns to guess where an object is in a room
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Role-play: buying and selling train tickets/ making travel arrangements
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.
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La cucina italiana e' molto varia e riflette la storia e del clima delle sue regioni ... Reading and Comprehension activitiy for L195 - Although the text is quite long the activities are simple and targeted at beginners. This gives students an opportunity to read a long text to extract specific information and answer questions (I normally show the questions before giving the text, since it is 'beginners' level)
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
A dyslexia friendly activity about practising the use of direct pronouns (can be used for beginners [L195] half-way through their course to learn direct pronouns or intermediate students [L150] at the beginning of their course, to revise pronouns)
Use these slides to teach directions in face-to-face tutorials. stedents can use them as prompts when they do information gaps/pair work
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History of Italy and Italian constitution outlines
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.
questo, quello when doing shopping revising unit 4 - on holiday
Revision
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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.
1) Students pair words and images 2)Students tell each other about the past and present habits and about the things they did last weekend.
Revising the present subjunctive forms; Practising using the structure perché + present subjunctive to express purpose, aims and objectives.
Practising the use of prepositions mentre e durante in different contexts; Being aware of the two possible positions of sentences introduced by mentre and durante.
Practising the use of stare per + infinitive; Being aware of the possible contexts in which this structure is used (action taking place or not taking place in the past).
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Practising talking about the past, Practising and consolidating the imperfect tense, Consolidating phrases of time and frequency
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Practising expressing superlatives -issimo
Practise contrast between perfect and imperfect tenses, Consolidate expressions of time and frequency
Practising proprio in contrast with mio, tuo, suo
Making comparisons by practising the comparative of equality (tanto..quanto, così..come)
Practising past tense of cominciare, finire. Use of auxiliary verbs essere and avere with cominciare and finire
Making a polite request using the present conditional; Expressing a wish
Describing people: physical description, character and what they can do (saper fare).
Saying what people are doing, using 'stare' and the gerund form.
Accepting or refusing an invitation; Using mi dispiace, non posso, devo.
Consolidate use of relative pronouns che, cui
Consolidating the use of direct object pronouns 'lo', 'la', 'li', 'le' with perfect tense; passato prossimo; making agreement with the participle.
Practise use of quanto ci vuole, quanto ci mette
Practise use of imperfect and perfect tenses
Revise and practise different forms of buono
Practise use of buono and migliore
Asking and answering questions about eating habits
Giving instructions and advice by using affermative and negative informal imperative, irregular imperative forms
Using the informal imperative with direct pronouns
Using the present conditional tense to give advice
Expressing need using servire
Practise talking about illnesses and health problems
Practise using the formal imperative to give advice; Expand vocabulary relevant to remedies and cures
Practise using the pronouns with formal imperative; Reinforce the relationship between nouns and pronouns
Practise using the plural imperative; Practise using pronouns with the plural imperative; Expand the vocabulary of Unit 7
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Practise using impersonal structures si deve and bisogna
Practise using the future to express suppositions; Consolidate students' understanding of the subject-verb relationship
Understanding and consolidating the specific terminology used in job advertising; Practising the interviewer and candidate role in a mock interview.
Consolidating the agreement between noun and adjective, Using the adjective bello in exclamations like Che bel bambino!
Practising the use of the subjunctive to express opinions, doubts, hopes, with impersonal expressions and to talk about specific characteristics; Practising the use of credo di / penso di and the distinction between this structure and the use of credo che with subjunctive.
Practising the use of the structure più/meno… di/che… to make comparisons; Understanding the difference of use between che/di; Revision of compound forms of the preposition di.
Introducing yourself
Ordering a drink
Asking and answering questions about place of origin and nationality
Describing people.
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
Talking about professions.
Asking questions. Matching the interrogative word to the rest of the question
Giving and asking for directions, getting around, describing monuments
Using ordinal numbers. Talking about days of the week and months.
Asking the time
Matching important dates and events.
Asking and telling the time
Inquiring about departure and arrival times. Making travel arrangements.
Practising using 'questo' and 'quello'. Describing objects.
Comparing objects and people
Shopping. Expressing a preference
Making, accepting and refusing invitations.
Talking about a typical day.
Talking about where things go.
Talking about clothes.
Buying groceries. Expressing 'some'.
Booking a hotel room by phone
Talking about free time activities, Saying what you like to do ('mi piace') and where.
Saying what you would like to do (Cosa ti piacerebbe fare)
Expressing likes and dislikes. Practising "mi piace"
Ordering food.
Talking about food and recipes.
Talking about holidays. Saying where you have been.
Talking about family relationships. Describing your family
Talking about the weather in various Italian regions, planning for holidays
Saying what you or someone else is doing (stare and gerund)
Saying what you or someone else has done (passato prossimo)
Talking about homes.Buying an apartment.
Talking about rooms and furniture
Talking about how things used to be and people used to live. Comparing the past and the present.
Talking about how houses and streets used to be.
Cosa facevi…? Talking about what you were doing at a specific time
Talking about when you were young
Saying something is forbidden
Talking about giving something up
Talking about health.
Giving orders
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discussing different points of view
Rule and link to Quia exercise
verb formation
Resources which can be used together with the film 'Pinocchio' by R Benigni
Video on pronunciation of consonants in Italian: letter "s".
Pronunciation of the sound λ (gl).
Dyslexic friendly activity on how to pronounce the two Italian graphemes /gn/ and /ng/
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Il cosmonauta
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A video clip describing an Italian apartment. The plan of the apartment is taken from Vivace, p.157.
A brief article abridged and simplified. Topic: Italian work and politics
Expressing likes and dislikes and to what degree, talking about food
Making an arrangement to see someone
Students take it in turns to guess where the glasses are
A Jing video on how to pronounce double consonant 'll' with a a tongue-twister for practice.
Explain the use of in+article and ask the students to move the words next to the correct preposition
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