Unit 1 - Revision
Objectives for Unit 1:
Exchanging information about daily activities:
work/university. Writing simple messages. Regular and irregular verbs.
1) Role Play - Saying what you do and like
2) Listening - Quiz
3) Gap-filling - Vocabulary + grammar
4) Grammar - Present Tense
5) Grammar - Sapere / Piacere / Conoscere
6) Culture
7) Grammar - Verbs pyramid
8) Read and Listen - Ordering dialogues
9) Listening - Talking about your daily routine
10) Listening - Understanding the time
11) Writing - Writing about your routine
12) Extension Work
Unit 2 - Shopping for food.
Objectives for Unit 2:
Shopping for food. Weights and measures.
Partitive articles and quantities. Combined prepositions.
Use of troppo and poco .
1) Listening - Shops
2) Listening - Shopping
3) Listening - Survey
4) Grammar - di + article
5) Grammar - Quantities
6) Culture - Food in italy
7) Role-play - The market
8) Read and Write - Missing words
9) Vocabulary - A recipe
10) Written Task
11) Extension Work
Unit 3 - Shopping for clothes.
Objectives for Unit 3:
Expressing preferences. Asking for size / colours and materials.
Demonstratives: questo / quello. Introduction to the Direct Object pronouns: lo / li – la / le.
1) Listening -
What are you wearing?
2) Listening -
Who is it?
3) Vocabulary -
Clothes
4) Grammar - Colours
5) Grammar - Quel, Quell’, Quello, Quella, Quei, Quelle
6) Culture -
Quiz
7) Listen -
The window
8) Fill in the gaps
9) Grammar and Writing - la / le / lo / li / l’
10) Grammar - True or False?
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 4 - Phone calls and Physical descriptions.
Objectives for Unit 4:
Dealing with phone calls.
Taking/reading and understanding simple messages. Describing people /
Physical descriptions. Direct Object
Pronouns: lo / li – la / le
1) Listening -
Calling Directory Inquiries
2) Listening -
Who is who?
3) Filling in the gaps -
Leaving a message
4) Grammar - Stare + Gerund
5) Reading -
Hello!
6) Culture -
Mobile phones
7) Reading and writing -
Sentence puzzle
8) Grammar and Writing - lo / li – la / le
9) Listening - What do I have to do?
10) Listening and translating - In Italian please!
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 5 - Past events and leisure activities.
Objectives for Unit 5:
Talking, asking and answering questions about past events.
Daily Routine and leisure activities. Introduction to Passato Prossimo (Present Perfect) .
Regular Past Participle
1) Grammar -
Past Participle
2) Role Play -
Holidays
3) Grammar -
Present Perfect
4) Reading -
What did you do?
5) Grammar - Week-end activities
6) Culture -
Football in Italy
7) Listening - Weekend
8) Grammar - Passato Prossimo
9) Reading -
A bad day!
10) Written Task
11) Extension Work
Unit 6 - Daily routine / Recent activities / Past events.
Objectives for Unit 6:
Talking, asking and answering questions about past events. Irregular Past Participle. Passato Prossimo of the verb piacere.
Adverbs of time related to Passato Prossimo.
1) Vocabulary - Destinations
2) Listening - What did you do last holidays?
3) Grammar - A holiday in Rimini
4) Fill in the gaps - A letter
5) Grammar - The verb piacere
6) Culture - Going to a bar
7) Reading - Select the right expression
8) The shark - Irregular Past Participle
9) Reading and Writing - Sentence puzzle
10) Listening - Winter holidays
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 7 - Banking.
Objectives for Unit 7:
Changing money and making bank transactions.
Finance and banking vocabulary. Filling in a form. Revision of numbers. Passato Prossimo of the verb piacere.
Adverbs of time related to Passato Prossimo.
1) Listening - numbers
2) Listening - getting an account
3) Listening - my account
4) Vocabulary - the bank
5) Reading - changing money
6) Culture - from lira to euro
7) Translation - how would say it in Italian?
8) Grammar - Dealing with traveller’s cheques
9) Written Task
10) Extension Work
Unit 8 - Making plans and invitations.
Objectives for Unit 8:
Making plans. Arranging, suggesting, accepting, and declining invitations. Revision, pronouns. Present tense of modal verbs: volere, potere and dovere.Introduction of Ti / Le piacerebbe, Ti / Le va?
1) Listening -
Inviting people
2) Listening -
Talking about future holidays
3) Grammar -
Direct and indirect object pronouns
4) Role Play -
Making arrangements
5) Reading - Describing holidays
6) Culture -
Italian Language
7) Grammar - volere, potere and dovere
8) Reading -
Describing holidays
9) Reading - Ti piacerebbe…
10) Vocabulary -
Game
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 9 - Eating out.
Objectives for Unit 9:
Booking a table / ordering meals / Reading menus and bills. Eating out vocabulary. Superlatives.
Use of un altro, un altro po’.
1) Listening - Booking a table
2) Vocabulary - Food puzzle
3) Reading and Vocabulary - A meal
4) Listening - Ordering in a restaurant
5) Listening - The bill
6) Culture - Eating in an Italian restaurant
7) Reading - Eating out
8) Role-play - The restaurant
9) Grammar - Superlatives
10) Written Task
11) Extension Work
Unit 10 - Health matters.
Objectives for Unit 10:
Describing physical symptoms/Understanding prescriptions/At the chemist’s. Doctor and Medicine Vocabulary:
ho mal di testa, mal di denti...
Use of aver bisogno di. Imperative.
1) Vocabulary - Different parts of the body
2) Listening - Making an appointment
3) Reading and Vocabulary - Being ill
4) Dictation - Explaining what’s wrong with you
5) Sentence puzzle - Going to the doctor’s
6) Culture - Italians and Health
7) Translation - How do you say it in Italian?
8) Listening - At the doctor’s surgery
9) Vocabulary - Fill in the gaps
10) Vocabular - Game
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 11 - Hotels.
Objectives for Unit 11:
Asking for and complaining about facilities.
Hotel vocabulary. Introduction to the expressions:
non funziona / funzionano and manca / mancano.General revision.
1) Vocabulary - Hotel
2) Listening -
Booking a hotel room
3) Listening -
Filling in a hotel reservation form
4) Grammar -
Pronouns lo / la / li / le / l’
5) Listening - Reporting a problem
6) Culture -
Quiz
7) Sentence puzzle
8) Role-play -
Description of the room
9) Vocabulary - Game
10) Grammar - funzionare e mancare
11) Written Task
12) Extension Work
Unit 12 - Revision.
Objectives for Unit 12:
Revision
1) Grammar - di + article
2) Grammar - Quantities
3) Grammar and writing - la / le / lo / li / l’
4) Grammar and writing - lo / li – la / le
5) Grammar - Present Perfect
6) Grammar - The verb piacere
7) Grammar - A holiday in Rimini
8) Listening - Talking about future holidays
9) Grammar - Direct and indirect object pronouns
10) Grammar - volere, potere and dovere
11) Vocabulary - Food puzzle
12) Grammar - Superlatives