Italian Beginners
Length of Course
Level
Learning Area
Core or Specialist
Pre-requisites
Year 7 Italian Beginners
Subject Description
Food Festivals and Family Fun
Exploring the cities of Italy and creating a feast for your friends. In this course students continue to develop their abilities to use and understand Italian language and to develop their intercultural understanding.
Students explore a range of Italian everyday language, discuss a variety of topics including the ordering of food, the numerous food festivals that occur every year in Italy, and choosing how to impress their friends with writing a menu and dinner invitations.
Students will be encouraged to take risks through communicating in the target language. These aspects of Italian culture will include meals, music and history.
Students will greet each other and introduce themselves. They will be able to have simple conversation, which includes chatting about their preferences. Speaking, listening, reading and writing skills will be developed. Grammar such as Italian sentence structure and adjectives, will be explicitly taught.
- Each term, students will engage with one summative assessment tasks and a minimum of two formative task.
- One summative task will be a culturally focused task and the second will be entirely in Italian.
- The formative tasks will comprise a variety of written and spoken activities to ensure that students are understanding the new concepts.
Year 9 Italian
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