An attractive powerpoint introducing basic technology phrases followed by whole class games and Conti style activities such as Tangled Translation, Ping Pong Translation, Verbal Volley Match up, Translate with first letter of each word, etc. A good motivator for all ability levels. Worked very well for my classes. Thanks Pixabay for the image
A fun way to learn the names of colours in Italian. Helps also with word recognition. Also useful for early finishers. I have included the colours: blu scuro and verde chiaro/scuro. If you consider this worth buying, ‘mille grazie.’
I have used this lesson several times with year5/6 taster day lessons, to provide students with a fun and educational experience of learning Italian.
They love the games and song.
Codebreaker challenge for Italian beginners. Only requires knowledge of numbers 1-20, colours and ‘mi chiamo’.
Perfect for an end-of-term activity or MFL lesson exploring other languages!
I taught an ‘intro to Italian’ for half an hour (numbers/colours/greetings), then did this challenge activity.
4 tasks to solve - each task gives a number as the answer.
I put some prizes and laminated ‘stolen goods’ (attached) in a cash box and padlocked it using the 4 numbers as the code. You could get students to submit the 4 digit code to the teacher to ‘unlock’ the prize verbally if you don’t have a cash box/padlock.
Solution on the ppt.
This is a copy of all of the questions that I used for my GCSE students this summer. They sat the edexcel course but the questions could equally be used for the AQA course.
This reading comprehension passage about The Italian Renaissance is designed with your students in mind, ensuring a delightful and educational experience.
What makes this resource a must-have for teachers and their students?
Engaging Content: This easy-to-understand passage is designed to spark curiosity and foster a love for reading.
Test Knowledge: 10 MCQs are provided to encourage critical thinking and ensure a deep understanding of the passage.
Answer Key: Easily assess student progress.
What is all included in this:
Reading Passage with colorful picture
10 descriptive questions
5 True/False questions
5 short answer questions
answer key
Thank you for choosing to inspire and empower your students!
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Summary of passage
The Italian Renaissance in Italy from the 14th to 17th centuries was a time of creativity and learning, leading to new ideas and inventions that changed the world. Leonardo da Vinci, a renowned artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor, created the Mona Lisa and designed flying machines and war machines. Michelangelo, another famous artist, excelled in sculpture, painting, and architecture, creating the statue of David and painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Scholars during this period studied ancient Greek and Roman texts, sparking a renewed interest in science, art, and literature. The invention of the printing press was a significant advancement, making it easier to print books and increasing access to knowledge. Powerful families like the Medicis in Florence supported artists and scholars, contributing to the city’s cultural and intellectual growth. The Italian Renaissance encouraged independent thinking and exploration of new ideas, leaving a lasting impact on art, science, and literature.
This is a lesson plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a first Italian lesson, as it involves children learning the most basic vocabulary of ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye.’
The lesson plan gives details of a group starter, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, simple reading/writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows the children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. The resources include:
a 4 page PDF lesson plan;
a 10 slide animated PowerPoint presentation containing the vocabulary to act as a visual aid (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.);
a sheet for the starter; and
colour and black & white versions of the reading activity.
This is lesson 1 of Unit 1 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
Unit 1 is available here:
Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle
Unit 2 is available here:
Italian All About Me 5 lesson bundle
This is a 5 lesson Italian unit for total beginners to use with KS2. It teaches children greetings, feelings, how to say their name and how to talk about where they live.
Lesson 1 - Greetings
In this lesson children learn to say ’hello’ and ‘goodbye.’
The lesson plan gives details of a group starter, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, simple reading/writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows the children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. The resources include:
a 4 page PDF lesson plan;
a 10 slide animated PowerPoint presentation containing the vocabulary to act as a visual aid (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.);
a sheet for the starter; and
colour and black & white versions of the reading activity.
Lesson 2 - Feelings and emotions
The focus in this lesson is on how to ask 'how are you’ and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘feelings’ vocabulary, a speaking and listening activity, paired game, reading/writing activity and plenary discussion. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF Lesson plan
A 21 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow.)
5 PDF pages of resources for the speaking activity
2 PDF pages for the paired game
3 PDF pages for the Reading/Writing activity. There is a colour and black & white version of the worksheet and an answers sheet.
Lesson 3 - Greetings for different times of day
The focus in this lesson is on how to greet people at different times of the day.
The plan gives details of a starter whole class game, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, reading/writing activity and plenary whole class discussion. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 5 page PDF lesson plan
A 15 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open it. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow.)
3 PDF pages for the game
3 PDF pages for the Reading/Writing activity. There is a colour and black & white version of the worksheet and an answers sheet.
Lesson 4 - Introducing yourself/Saying your name
The focus in this lesson is how to ask someone their name and to reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘name’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, reading/writing activity and plenary discussion. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 10 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoint is run as a slideshow.)
1 PDF sheet for the speaking/listening activity
2 PDF pages for the Reading/Writing activity ( a worksheet and answers sheet)
All you need to take with you is a ball or beanbag for the whole class game.
Lesson 5 - Where you live
The focus in this lesson is how to ask someone where they live and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘countries’ vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking activity, writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practice a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 14 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
3 PDF sheets for the speaking activity
2 PDF pages for the writing activity (A worksheet and answers)
This is Unit 1 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
You might be interested in Units 1 and 2 together:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12518073
I wrote these model answers in preparation for my speaking and writing exam for June 2019. I received a grade 9, so clearly they must have been good enough to secure the grade. They were marked and corrected by my GCSE Italian teacher, who is a native speaker.
There are 21 answers and questions in the document.
Italian introduction to greetings, numbers and months which leads into first homework task. Learning objective : To know basic greetings. To practice a conversation. To compare two conversations. Recognise numbers 1-10 (more for MATs) and to play a game before creating an informative spider gram which serves as homewerk framework. (As such the spider gram could be done on paper if not wishing to send books away)
See my other resources for FREE provision of a range of mind maps which you can use for the spider gram activity here.
Copies of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in bilingual format:
English - French
English - Urdu
English - Portuguese
English - Italian
English - Ukrainian
Plus the MASTER Copy for you to use and translate into any additional languages required via the REVIEW - TRANSLATE function on PowerPoint.
Translations might not be perfect as they have been translated using Microsoft Translations.
More translations to come in another bundle. Bundle fee covers the time required to format the script into a bilingual page presentation and translate into the other languages.
A full lesson focused on the vocabulary to order food at the restaurant.
Visual slides and a menú sheet for students to produce their own in the target language. Includes reading and speaking activity, a link to a Youtube link and extension tasks.
This fantastic Easter resource includes 8 printable PDFs with teacher’s notes. There are 4 fun activity sheets in Italian with an Easter theme and the colours in Italian. There are also 4 different Italian Easter cards to colour so that you can either use different designs with different classes or you can let your pupils choose which card to colour.
Ideal for pupils aged 7-11 or 11-14 (KS2 / KS3 )
Use this series of presentations to teach a series of lesson on Italian basics.
Slides includes:
numbers
greetings
saying your name and age
nationalities
marriage status
verbs to be and to have
question words
basic questions
guess the celeb quiz
Italian Grammar in Context is a set of 17 passages in Italian, each of which is used to illustrate a particular grammatical point. Full explanations of the grammar points are given and practice exercises are provided, together with answer keys. The contents list is as follows:
1. La mia vita di casa: Adjectives
2. La giornata di Edoardo: Reflexive Verbs
3. Richard Gere: Perfect Tense with Avere
4. Boris Becker: Perfect Tense with Essere
5. La fidanzata di Valentino: Imperfect Tense
6. Cosa farei come lavoro: Future Tense
7. Cosa fare in futuro: Conditional Tense
8. Le prime impressioni della Scozia: Pluperfect Tense
9. Una cena in famiglia: Past Definite Tense
10. La televisione: Subjunctive Tense
11. Milano 2: una nuova città sportiva: Impersonal Verbs
12. L’Università italiana per stranieri di Perugia: Volere & Potere
13. Un matrimonio singolare: Stare per + Infinitive
14. Venezia, città morente: Stare + Gerund
15. A cavallo: Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns
16. I pericoli dei computer: Negative Expressions
17. California, paese dei sogni: Towns, Countries, Regions, Continents & Nationalities
An ideal booklet to teach Italian to beginners including 40 pages on greetings, phonics, the alphabet, numbers, descriptions, free time, food and drink, restaurants, shopping, travel and tourism and there’s a grammar section.
Italian Escape Room Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive ‘Underwater themed Escape room’ experience.
Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term.
There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction.
The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more…
Italian Escape Quiz Escape Room is fully editable and takes less than 1 Minute to set up.
**Italian Escape Quiz ** Underwater Escape Room Contents
☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge
☞ Optional Escape Certificates
☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead)
Common FAQ’s
★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180)
★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!)
★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil.
How to run this escape challenge
This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice.
The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections.
Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success
At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation.
Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle.
Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish.
Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes.
Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully
(Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.
This photocopiable text is designed to develop Italian reading, writing and speaking skills at KS4 and stimulate discussion on individual likes and dislikes.
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