A VERY ARTY ITALIAN CHRISTMAS YEAR 5/6

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 5/6 | Posted on December 16, 2021

Ciao a tutti, (hello everyone!)

During the final few weeks of the term, our Year 5/6 Italian and performing arts classes combined to create this magical performance of Mariah Carey’s classic song “All I Want for Christmas is You/Perche Il Mio Natale Sei Tu (Because my Christmas is You)”.

Students learnt how to sing part of the song in Italian and English. They learn about the correct singing positions, the meaning behind the song and how to warm up their voices. Students discovered that Italians also love to listen to English artists and as a result, have created covers of many English songs. Students compared the lyrics of the original and the cover and noticed that although the lyrics were not identical, the message of the original song remained the same.

Thank you also to our students who accompanied our singing using their instrumental skills and talents. These included Gracie and Michaela playing the ukulele and Isabella F, Audrey and Sascha playing the violin.

Click on the link below if you are having trouble viewing the video.

Year 5/6 Art Italian Collaboration- All I Want For Christmas Is You /Perche` Il Mio Natale Sei Tu

I hope you love it as much as we loved creating it together. It was a fun and special way to end the year in both subject areas.

Special thanks to Stef and Daniel for filming and to the ESS staff for their support on the performance day.

Merry Christmas (Buon Natale),

From The Specialist team (Nancy, Stef and Christine)

Buon divertimento! (Enjoy!)

All I Want For Christmas Is You

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 5/6 | Posted on November 15, 2021

 

Year 1/2 Wk 4 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 1/2 | Posted on October 24, 2021

Ciao Year 1/2s,

Listen to Nancy read out the blog post and activity instructions below:

L.G. I know the names of the four seasons in Italian.

Click the lesson link below if you need to go over the words.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FOUR SEASON’S LESSON.

Lots of you have told me how much you enjoy completing my quizzes. Today that’s what your activity is. 😀

 

First, get a piece of paper or book and a grey lead pencil. Write the learning goal and the quiz title ‘Le Quattro Stagioni Quz’ and then write the numbers from 1 to 10 down the left side of your page. See my example below:

Next, do the quiz that is on the video below. Pause the video after each question to write down your answer for each question.

Then, correct your answers. The answers can be found after the last question.

Quiz time! 😈 Click on the video and have fun learning!

Finally, get someone at home to leave a comment on the Italian blog to tell me how you did and whether you enjoyed the activity and want more of these.

 

Buona fortuna! (Good luck!)

 

Email: Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

Year 3/4 Wk 4 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 3/4 | Posted on October 24, 2021

Ciao Year 3/4s,

Listen to Nancy read the blog post below:

This week you will draft a paragraph about your hairstyle and colour of your hair, your eye colour and your TV show and film preferences. You will use the sentences from last week’s texts about Emma to create your paragragph.

L.G. I can create a text about myself to describe my hair and eyes and to express my preferences about films and tv shows.

You may need to revise this work. Here are the two lesson links.

Click on the link below to go over language about hair and eyes.

Lesson – Hair and eye description.

Click on the link below to go over expressing preferences about TV and films

Lesson – Expressing preferences TV shows and films.

Activity

You will use teacher modelled sentences and use the words and phrases we have learnt about both topics to make up your own paragraph. Your paragraph will look something like Emma’s except yours will be about you!

First, let’s re-read the text about Emma.

Ciao! Mi chiamo Emma.

Ho venti anni.

Ho i capelli corti e lisci.

I miei capelli sono castani.

Ho gli occhi verdi.

Mi piacciono i film d’avventura e i film fantascienza.

Amo i film di fantasia.

Adoro i reality show.

Detesto i documentari.

Arrivederci!

Listen to Nancy read out the following instructions below:

Next, the Italian sentences below are the ones you will use. You will need to fill in the information about yourself. Follow what it says in the brackets. You must include the English translation. I have written the English sentence underneath the first couple of Italian sentences to show you.

You can create a PowerPoint presentation and provide an illustration/picture for each sentence.

OR

You can create a handwritten poster and draw a picture of yourself and some of the things you’ve written about in your sentences.

 

THE SENTENCES YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR PARAGRAPH ARE:

 

  • Ciao. Mi chiamo (fill in your Name).
  • Hi. My name is  ________.
  • Ho (fill in your age in words) anni.
  • I am ___ years old.
  • Ho i capelli _(fill in your hair colour)___  e   _(fill in your hair length).
  • I miei capelli sono  (fill in a description of your hair).
  • Ho gli occhi (fill in your eye colour).
  • Mi piacciono (fill in your preferences about movies and tv shows).
  • Non mi piaccciono (fill in your preferences about movies and tv shows)._
  • Adoro __(fill in your preferences about movies and tv shows).
  • Detesto_(fill in your preferences about movies and tv shows).
  • Arrivederci!

 

Finally, send your PowerPoint or poster to my email address. I can’t wait to read your Italian paragraphs about you! 😊 In bocca al lupo! (Good luck!)

Email: Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

 

 

Year 5/6 Wk 4 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 5/6 | Posted on October 24, 2021

Ciao Year 5/6s,

Listen to Nancy read the blog post and activity instructions:

Last week you created your own quiz and submitted it to me for feedback. I was very impressed with the range of questions and some of the multiple-choice answers. Some of you made them very entertaining. 😊

If you submitted your quiz, you would have received it back by now with feedback and considerations to think about before sharing it with a classmate to complete.

This week you will share your quiz with a classmate.

 L.G. I can express my preferences in Italian about TV shows and films in a variety of ways, and I can identify someone’s nationality, country or city name they live in and languages they speak.

First, choose a classmate to share your quiz with. Send them an email and ensure they know who it’s from. Attach the Quiz as a file to the email. Get them to share their quiz via email with you too!

If someone messages you and says that they don’t have a quiz, you can send your quiz to them as well. The idea is that everyone has a quiz to complete but obviously you cannot complete your own! 😋

(Let me know if you don’t have a quiz to complete and I will organise this for you.)

Next, complete the quiz and correct your quiz. Everyone has included the answers at the end of their PowerPoint.

I know that you will all do the right thing and not look at the answer slide/s until you have completed the quiz. 😊

 

Finally, provide feedback to the person about their quiz. Do this on the Italian blog.

Here is an example of what you might write:

Ciao Nancy. I really enjoyed completing your quiz. There was a good mix of questions on both topics. I got one wrong as I got confused with ‘I like’ (the singular form) and ‘I like’ (the plural form). Maybe next time you could include more questions like unjumble the Italian sentence. Grazie, Audrey. 😜

 I am looking forward to reading the feedback that you give to each other, and I am also looking forward to seeing how you went.

 

Email: Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

 

 

Year 1/2 Wk 3 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 1/2 | Posted on October 17, 2021

Ciao Year 1/2s,

Listen to Nancy read the blog post and instructions.

I have been receiving some fantastic work from you. I am so proud of your achievements and learning. Keep it up! Thanks for the feedback about the Italian lessons and activities during Home Learning. A lot of you have said how much you have liked the lessons and activities. I hope you love this week’s lesson. Let me know. I really value your feedback! 😊

This week our learning goal is:

L.G. I know the Italian names of the four seasons.

First, watch the video below.

 

Next, complete the activity in the video below. You do not have to write any answers down with this activity, but you will need to answer questions verbally. I will let you know in the video when it’s time to answer. It will all be clearer once you begin the video.

Then, finish the sentence below with the Italian season name at the end.

Here are the words you learnt:

  • l’inverno
  • l’estate
  • l’autunno
  • la primavera

 

The season that we are in now is ____________________.

Draw a picture to show the weather in this season.

Here’s my example below. The answer is wrong so be careful! 😉

I’d love to see your work and I’d love to hear if you loved the activity on the video too!

Email: Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

 

 

Year 3/4 Wk 3 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 3/4 | Posted on October 17, 2021

Ciao Year 3/4

Listen to Nancy read the blog post and instructions:

You have done such a fabulous job with learning Italian through Home Learning! Some of the work I have been receiving from you is amazing and it shows me just how much you have learnt too!

This week we are combing the topic of describing hair and eyes as well as talking about expressing preferences on the topic of films and TV shows.

L.G. I can read and listen to information about a person in Italian and gather information about them.

You may need to revise the lesson on describing hair and eyes.

Click HERE to go over that lesson.

 

First, choose one of the texts below. No. 1 is a little easier than No. 2.

Next, listen to the recording and read along with me so that you improve both your pronunciation and reading skills.

Then, answer the questions about the passage. Please write the questions down and answer each question underneath. You can also type the questions and answers on a word document if you find this easier to do.

Text No. 1       Listen and read along with Nancy on the recording below:

Listen to Nancy read the questions below:

Answer these questions about this girl.

  1. What’s this girl’s name.
  2. How old is she?
  3. What colour is her hair?
  4. How does she describe the length and style of her hair?
  5. What colour are her eyes?
  6. What films does she like?
  7. What does she love?
  8. What does she really like?
  9. What does she hate?

 

Text No. 2  Listen and read along with Nancy on the recording below:

Listen to Nancy read the questions below:

Answer questions about this boy.

  1. What’s this boy’s name?
  2. How old is he?
  3. What colour are his eyes?
  4. What colour and length is his hair?
  5. What kind of hair does he have e.g. straight, curly, long etc.
  6. What does he really like?
  7. What does he love?
  8. What does he hate?
  9. What does he like?
  10. What does ‘A presto’ mean?

 

Finally, email a CLEAR picture of your work or attach your document to your email.

In bocca al lupo my wonderful Italian students! 😊

 

 

Year 5/6 Wk 3 T4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 5/6 | Posted on October 17, 2021

Ciao Year 5/6s

Listen to Nancy read the blog post and instructions below:

I have been really impressed with the level of comprehension of our topics of study. This also includes the topics we covered throughout the year. Keep up the impressive work!

This week we will work on our recall skills on TV show categories, film genres and expressing preferences (Week 1’s lesson)

L.G. I can express my preferences in Italian about TV shows and films in a variety of ways.

First, revise the language that was introduced in Week 1.

Here is the link to that week’s video.

Next, Complete the one Activity below:

Create a Powerpoint quiz.

Next week, you will share this quiz with a classmate for them to complete.

  • The quiz must only be about the language you’ve learnt in Week 1 Term 4 (TV Shows, Film genres and expressing preferences) and on the topic of ‘Nazione e Nazionalita` (Countries and Nationalities). We learnt this in Term 3 and have been revising this in the past few weeks.
  • You must ensure that all the Italian words or sentences that you include in the quiz have the correct spelling and that the answers are correct too.
  • Your quiz must have 15 questions. The questions must be a mixture of multiple-choice, true or false, unjumbling sentences etc.
  • The answers should come at the end of the PowerPoint.

Then, email me your PowerPoint so that I can give you feedback before you share them next week.

Buona fortuna! (Good luck!) I hope that you enjoy creating the quiz.

Foundation Wk 2 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Foundation | Posted on October 10, 2021

Ciao,

Listen to Nancy read the blog post.

This week we will be looking at naming some family members in Italian.

L.G. I know the names for mum, dad, me in Italian.

First, watch the video below.

Next, draw a picture of your mum, dad and you and use the Italian words below to label your picture.

  • La mia famiglia
  • mamma
  • papa`
  • io

Here’s an example of what to do.

Finally, if you can, get someone to take a photo of your work and send it to my email.

Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

Year 1/2 Wk 2 Term 4 Home Learning

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Posted by Nancy | Posted in Classe 1/2 | Posted on October 10, 2021

Salve Year 1/2,

Listen to Nancy read the instructions.

This week we will be learning the Italian names for the days of the week.

L.G. I know the Italian names for the days of the week.

First, watch the video below.

Then, choose one activity you’d like to do.

Here is the new information again:

  • I giorni della settimana – The days of the week.
  • lunedi`
  • martedi`
  • mercoledi`
  • giovedi`
  • venerdi`
  • sabato
  • domenica

 

Activity 1

Draw a table like mine below. Write the Italian names for the days of the week at the top (I have only written lunedi` – Monday). You will need to write the rest of the days of the week in Italian.

You can choose to keep a record of one of these things:

  1. Draw or write about some of the things that you do each day.
  2. Draw or write about some of the things that you eat each day.
  3. Draw or write about the weather each day.

Activity 2.

If you have a printer. Print out the word search and complete it. It is attached below as a PDF file.

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Finally, if you can, get someone to take a clear photo of your work and email it to me. I’d love to see how well you have done!

Nunzia.Berardone@education.vic.gov.au

 

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