AC9LIT4U02 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise Italian language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying the gender of nouns in the singular and plural regular form, for example, ‘o-i'; ‘a-e’; ‘e-i'
• • Elaboration observing gender in patterns of names, for example, male names generally end in ‘o’ and female names end in an ‘a’, for example, Giorgio/Giorgia and Marcello/Marcella and noticing exceptions to the rule such as male names in Italian ending in ‘a’ or ‘e’, for example, Simone, Luca, Andrea, and Nicola
• • Elaboration using singular and plural, recognising that some singular nouns do not follow the regular masculine/feminine pattern, for example, la mano – le mani; il papà – i papà
• • Elaboration using the definite and indefinite articles and understanding how to specify a particular person or object, for example, la mamma, una mamma; il quaderno, un quaderno; l’arancia, un’ arancia
• • Elaboration using personal pronouns in context, for example, Chi ha finito? Io!
• • Elaboration recognising the different conjugations of common regular verbs in the present tense, for example, ‑are verbs gioco-gioca, mangio-mangiamo
• • Elaboration expressing negation, for example, voglio/non voglio

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• • Elaboration expressing preferences and reasons for preferences, for example, preferisco ... perché …
• • Elaboration using adjectives to describe characteristics or qualities of a person or object and noticing that adjectives change with gender, for example, Chiara è italiana, Bruno è greco, Riccardo è portoghese e Marianna è irlandese, la macchina rossa, il libro rosso
• • Elaboration using prepositions to indicate location or direction, for example, a casa, a Roma, in città, a sinistra, sopra il tavolo, sotto il banco
• • Elaboration using possessive adjectives to express ownership, for example, la mia casa, la tua famiglia, il tuo cappello, mia nonna
• • Elaboration using suffixes to add nuance, for example, -ino (fratellino, piccolino) or -etto (poveretto, casetta)
• • Elaboration creating simple sentences in the subject+verb+object pattern, and linking ideas using conjunctions such as e and ma
• • Elaboration recognising how ideas are sequenced in simple texts by using link words such as prima, dopo