Year 3 Italian

During the summer term of Year 3 we start on the basics of Italian as our taster term of a Romance language.

German in the autumn term is a Germanic language and Mandarin in the spring term is an Oriental one.

Obviously it is quite difficult to teach a language without the face to face chance of speaking, and the

classroom interaction for the children to practice what they have learnt, so Children, you may have to try it

with your parents to give you the opportunity of paired conversation!

https://www.euroclub-schools.org/italian-teaching-resources is a good website for learning about Italy as a country

and can be used for research work and language vocabulary quizzes.

Although I generally tell you not to use Google translate as you do not always recognise that the translation may not

be saying exactly what you think it does, for the basic language for the beginner it can be a useful tool for identifying

the meaning, and, more importantly, how to pronounce the word or phrase.

The lesson sessions are numbered but each should probably last 2 or 3 weeks, giving you the chance to learn the

vocabulary, add it to your dictionary (see below), practice it with family in person or friends via phone, zoom etc. and

complete the worksheets. Don’t forget to keep practicing the earlier vocabulary as you move through the weeks.

I hope the following will be interesting and fun.

Task

Produce a fact sheet / file on Italy as a country. Research a couple of themes that particularly interest you e.g.

history / people / famous places or landmarks / food / music – the list is endless. A fact sheet to complete is

included at the end (resource 1) or do it as a hand-written / illustrated sheet, a PowerPoint presentation,

booklet.

Task

I have included some colouring sheets of 2 famous landmarks and the plans for making your own Leaning

Tower of Pisa (resources 2 /3 / 4)

Task

Produce an Italian / English dictionary with all the words / phrases you learn during the course.

Task

Find some Italian recipes / dishes your family might like to eat and (with supervision) make them for lunch /

dinner for all the family to enjoy.

Don’t have the ingredients for them? – try to improvise – pizza could become a slice of toast with tomato

ketchup, grated cheese and a sprinkling of chopped ham.

Lesson 1 – Greetings / I saluti (2-3 weeks)

Vocabulary:

Ciao Hello / Hi Buongiorno Good morning Buonasera Good evening

Buananotte Good night Arrivederci Goodbye Ciao Bye

A presto See you soon

Activity – Listen to google translate to learn how to pronounce the words

Add the words to your dictionary

Practice with other people, conversations between puppets / cuddly toys

Complete the worksheet

Worksheet – Resource 5

Lesson 2 – Saying names / Presentiamoci (2-3 weeks)

Vocabulary:

Come ti chiami What is your name Mi chiamo …. My name is ……

Lui come si chiama? What is his name? Lui si chiama ……

Si chiama …….. His name is ……….

Lei come si chiama? What is her name? Lei si chiama …..

Si chiama …… Her name is …..

Activity – Listen to google translate to learn how to pronounce the phrases

Add the phrases to your dictionary

Practice with other people, conversations between puppets / cuddly toys

Complete the worksheet

Worksheet – Resource 6

Lesson 3 – Saying how you are / Come Stai? (2-3 weeks)

Vocabulary:

Come stai? How are you? Sto bene I am very well Sto male I am not well

E tu? How are you? Così così

Activity – Listen to google translate to learn how to pronounce the words

Add the words to your dictionary

Practice with other people, conversations between puppets / cuddly toys

Complete the worksheet

Worksheet – Resource 7

Lesson 4 – Colours / I colori (2-3 weeks)

Vocabulary

arancione bianco blu

giallo grigio marrone

nero rosa rosso

verde viola

black blue brown green grey orange

pink purple red white yellow

Activity – In the grid above, match the Italian colour with its English equivalent (answers below)

Listen to google translate to learn how to pronounce the words

Add the words to your dictionary

Practice with other people, conversations between puppets / cuddly toys

Complete the worksheet

Worksheets – Resource 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

Lesson 5 – Numbers / I Numeri 1-10 (2-3 weeks)

Vocabulary

1 5 9

2 6 10

3 7

4 8

cinque otto uno dieci tre

due sei quattro sette nove

Activity – In the grid above, match the number with the numeral (answers below)

Listen to google translate to learn how to pronounce the words

Add the words to your dictionary

Practice counting with other people, conversations between puppets / cuddly toys

Complete the worksheet

Worksheet – Resources 13 / 14 / 15

Extra

The BBC have some video clips showing life in Italy for 2 children

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z9qmhyc

Parents

The internet is a great resource for finding extra colouring sheets, wordsearches etc. that will help with

learning Italian. The suggestions above should cover the whole term, especially if the research of Italy –

geography, people, customs, food, etc. etc. is done.

Resource 1

Resource 2

Resource 3

Resource 4

Resource 5

Resource 6

Resource 7

Resource 8

Resource 9

Resource 10

Resource 11

Resource 12

Resource 13

Resource 14

Resource 15

Answers

Lesson 4

arancione orange bianco white blu blue

giallo yellow grigio grey marrone brown

nero black rosa pink rosso red

verde green viola purple

Lesson 5

1 uno 5 cinque 9 nove

2 due 6 sei 10 dieci

3 tre 7 sette

4 quattro 8 otto