I am so excited to see you all at school!

Have a look at what we will be learning in Italian this term!

I am so excited to see you all at school!

Have a look at what we will be learning in Italian this term!

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Students will learn gestures to support acquisition of high frequency words in Italian

Focus language:

• Revising greetings and exchanges; Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye), Come stai? (How are you?), Sto bene/male (I’m well/not well), per favore (please), grazie (thank you), Prego (you’re welcome)

• Mi piace / non mi piace (I like/I don’t like)

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

• Mi Presento! Learning simple greetings and phrases and interacting with each other in Italian

• Introducing new vocab: Mi piace / non mi piace (I like/I don’t like)

La Gelateria

Linking in with Discovery Learning participating in role plays (ordering food, expressing likes/dislikes) Mi piace/ Non mi piace (I like/ I don’t like)

Pasqua- Easter

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Students will learn gestures to support acquisition of high frequency words in Italian

Focus language:

• Revising HFW- greetings and exchanges; Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye), Come stai? (How are you?), Sto bene/male (I’m well/not well), per favore (please), grazie (thank you), Prego (you’re welcome)

• Mi Presento! Revising greetings and phrases and interacting with each other in Italian

• Mi piace/ Non mi piace- Expressing likes and dislikes

• Contiamo Insieme!- Learning numbers 1-30 in Italian

• Pasqua-Easter- Fra Martino

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Students will continue to learn gestures to support acquisition of high frequency words in Italian.

Focus language:

• Revising HFW- greetings and exchanges; Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye), Come stai? (How are you?), Sto bene/male (I’m well/not well), per favore (please), grazie (thank you), Prego (you’re welcome)

• classroom verb based instructional language, molto bene (very well), tutti (everyone), Capisco, Non capisco (I understand, I don’t understand). Posso…? (Can I…?)

• Using phrases and adjectives to introduce ourselves

• Mi presento! Using prior knowledge of greetings and phrases to introduce ourselves, our likes/dislikes. Introduction of adjectives and gender agreement rules

• Italian Easter traditions- Exploring Easter traditions in Italy.

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Students will learn gestures to support acquisition of high frequency words in Italian

Focus language:

• • Revising HFW- greetings and exchanges; Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye), Come stai? (How are you?), Sto bene/male (I’m well/not well), per favore (please), grazie (thank you), Prego (you’re welcome)

    • Classroom verb based instructional language, molto bene (very well), tutti (everyone), Capisco, Non capisco (I understand, I don’t understand). Posso…? (Can I…?)

    • Using phrases and adjectives to describe a friend

• Il mio amico/ La mia amica- Introducing themselves and describing a friend. Using adjectives to describe hair/eye colour and personality. Indovina chi e? (Guess Who?)

• Pasqua- Exploring Easter traditions in Italy.

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• Intentional Gesture teaching- Focus language: Revising and introducing HFW- greetings and exchanges; Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye), Come stai? (How are you?), Sto bene/male (I’m well/not well), per favore (please), grazie (thank you), Prego (you’re welcome)

Conversiamo! Students will create a simple conversation they can have with others using the phrases from unit 1 IGT (above)

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Review units 1 & 2 from term 1 Focus language: greetings and exchanges, asking questions, opposites

Mi Presento! Students will create a personal ‘All about me’ profile to read and ask each other questions to practise having a conversation. Focus language: salutations, introductions, facts about myself and my family.

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Review units 1 & 2 from term 1 Focus language: greetings and exchanges, asking questions, opposites

Mi Presento! Students will create a personal ‘All about me’ profile to read and ask each other questions to practise having a conversation. Focus language: salutations, introductions, facts about myself, adjectives and conjunctions

Questo semestre students will learn about:

Intentional Gesture teaching- Review units 1 & 2 from term 1 Focus language: greetings and exchanges, asking questions, opposites

Mi Presento! Students will create a personal ‘All about me’ profile to read and ask each other questions to practise having a conversation. Focus language: salutations, introductions, facts about myself, adjectives, conjunctions and adverbs

Focus: Introduction to the Italian Language

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• Intentional Gesture teaching- introducing HFW- Buongiorno (good morning), Arrivederci (Good bye)

• i colori the colours

• Contiamo Insieme! i numeri (numbers) 0-10 in Italian

• Pasqua! Easter

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Please Note: PSM & PET begin Italian in week 6

Focus: Questo semestre students will learn about:

• Intentional Gesture teaching- revising HFW from last year and introducing new ones

• Contiamo Insieme! i numeri (numbers) 0-20 in Italian

• Che tempo fa? Describing il tempo e le stagioni (the weather and seasons), including; i giorni della settimana (days of the week)

• Pasqua! Easter

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Focus: Questo semestre students will learn about:

• Intentional Gesture teaching- revising HFW from last year and introducing new ones

• Contiamo Insieme! i numeri (numbers) 0-50 in Italian

• Che tempo fa? Describing the weather, including; il tempo e le stagioni (the weather and seasons) and i giorni e i mesi (days and months of the year)

• Pasqua! Easter

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Focus: Questo semestre students will learn about:

• Intentional Gesture teaching- revising HFW from last year and introducing new ones

• Contiamo Insieme! i numeri (numbers) ordinal numbers in Italian

• Che tempo fa? Describing the weather, including; il tempo e le stagioni (the weather and seasons) and i giorni e i mesi (days and months of the year)

• Pasqua! Easter

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose a co-constructed text in italian and learn about:

• i giorni della settimana (days of the week)

• i cibi (foods)

• i numeri (numbers)

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose and record a weather report in italian and learn about:

• i giorni (days), i mesi (months), i numeri (numbers) and il tempo (weather) vocabulary in Italian

• use dictionaries to substitute English words for Italian words

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose a role play about likes and dislikes and learn to:

• use classroom phrases and commands

• express their likes and dislikes in italian

• use dictionaries to substitute English words for Italian words

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• il corpo (the body)

• plurals

• compose simple sentences using key vocabulary

• l'alfabetto (the alphabet)

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• il corpo (the body)

• le emozioni (the emotions)

• create a mostro (monster) using key vocabulary; i numeri (numbers), il corpo (the body) and le emozioni (the emotions)

• compose simple sentences using key vocabulary

• l'alfabetto (the alphabet)

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose a co-constructed text in italian and learn about:

• geographical landmarks of Italy and their historical significance

• i cibi (foods)

• Translanguaging; focussing on translating nouns and indefinite articles

• Compose simple sentences about their landmark to improvise on a co-constructed text

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose a co-constructed text in italian and learn to:

• ask and give directions

• la casa

• use language to showcase and sell a home

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• le fiabe (fairytales)

• i colori (colours)

• compose simple sentences using key vocabulary

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will learn about:

• create a translanguaged burattini show using key vocabulary learnt throughout the year

• i colori (colours)

• compose simple sentences using key vocabulary

• Practise pronunciation and intonation

Questo semestre students will compose a co-constructed text in italian and learn about:

• Recognised key words in an Italian text and conveyed meaning

• Translate key vocabulary into Italian to compose translanguaged factual presentation about Pompeii

• Used intentional gesture actions to communicate common words and phrases

• Practise pronunciation and intonation