AC9LIT10EU02 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor select and use structures and features of the Italian grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration applying the rules for inclusion or omission of the article, for example, mio padre and il mio papà; Buongiorno signora … È la signora …
• • Elaboration understanding that some nouns have irregular plurals such as la città/le città, il dito/le dita, and some are collective nouns, for example, la gente
• • Elaboration understanding the function of pronouns including possessive, reflexive, demonstrative and relative
• • Elaboration making descriptions more precise by using comparatives and superlatives (regular and irregular), for example, Il film è più bello del romanzo; è bellissimo
• • Elaboration indicating destinations and directions by using simple or articulated prepositions, for example, in Italia, a Roma, al parco
• • Elaboration conjugating verbs indicating action in the present (including irregular verbs and reflexives) and action across time: present perfect; imperfect
• • Elaboration recognising and using the future and conditional tenses in modelled contexts

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• • Elaboration understanding the use of the impersonal si and the function of modal verbs to indicate ability/willingness/necessity
• • Elaboration using compound sentences, for example, Mi piace la pizza ma preferisco le lasagne, and complex sentences, for example, La città che ho visitato era bellissima.
• • Elaboration using idiomatic expressions with fare and avere such as ho fame, ho sete, avevo sete, non ho mai avuto fame come oggi, avevo fame e così' ho mangiato un panino, ho paura, ho avuto paura così non mi sono tuffato/a nell' acqua, avevo paura del buio.
• • Elaboration obtaining information by using appropriate interrogatives, for example, Chi …? Quando … ? Come …? Perché? Quale?
• • Elaboration using adverbs of time and manner, for example, ieri, di solito
• • Elaboration understanding the elements that create coherence at a whole text level (the use of cohesive devices, linked paragraphs, and sequencing of ideas, etc.), for example, perché, quindi, siccome, dato che