Italian

Preps

2024  Prep students have been an absolute delight to teach Italian. Students have been displaying their enthusiasm and have learnt how to greet and respond to a simple conversational phrase Come ti chiami?  Mi chiamo ….  My name is …. 

Students are often engaging with me, using their newly formed  Italian greetings and statements in the playground.  

Prep students are learning to count to ten and are absolutely exerting their efforts to achieve this goal through ball games and regular oral work. 

They understand this subject is a language spoken in a country called Italy and know the colours of the Italian flag.  Most students understand the concept of what a country is and that Italy is on the other side of the world.  The shape of the country is a boot and mainly surrounded by water. 

They are learning to sing the Ciao, Buongiorno, Come stai? song, and thoroughly enjoy learning through playing games and craft activities.

Grade 1                                                                                        

Grade 1 students spent the first few weeks of this year revising basic conversational language, numbers to 20 and colours. 

Although students recognise the different greetings according to the time of day and to whom they are communicating with, they are making progress with their automatic recall.  

Grade 1 students are continuing to learn the names of the days of the week along with correct pronunciation.  

Students have a better understanding that Italy is located on the other side of the world and the capital city of Italy is Rome.  Some recognise that the seasons in Italy are opposite to our seasons in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Students revised the colours of the Italian flag and its simple meaning.  

They have learned the names of family members along with knowing when to use mio and mia meaning my and how to match it to the correct noun.  

Students know some classroom items, some domestic animals and revised body parts. 

Grade 2

Grade 2 students have worked with great enthusiasm and to the best of their abilities to complete set tasks. 

Students have been revising some common instructional language ie Capsici? Do you all understand? Si capsico yes I understand, sediti - all sit down, batti le mani - everyone clap hands, guardate -everyone look, ascolate - everyone listen, in piedi - on your feet, facciamo un cerchio - everyone make a circle, scrivete il nome e classe - write your name and grade. etc.  

They have continued to revise greetings according to the time of day and respond accordingly, numbers to 20 and are beginning to count by 10s to 100, the names of the days of the week and the names of the planets that each day of the week has been named after. 

A big focus in term 1 was to learn the names of some classroom items and including manners when asking for these items. 

Students love role-plays and have used this platform to engage as well as learn about the  use of an article ie il / la, un / una meaning the, a or an.  

Arrivederci

Signora Marson