AC9LIT8EU02 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the Italian grammatical and writing systems, to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration understanding and using masculine and feminine nouns (the grammatical gender) to identify people and objects, using singular and plural regular forms
• • Elaboration developing awareness of various categories of nouns with common endings such as ‘-ista’, ‘-zione’, ‘-tore’ and ‘-trice’, for example, il/la dentista, la stazione, il vincitore/la vincitrice, and comparing them to their English equivalents
• • Elaboration using indefinite and definite articles (un, una, un’; il, la, l’, lo, i, le, gli)
• • Elaboration understanding that adjectives agree in number and gender with the noun, including possessive adjectives (my, your, his/her), for example, il mio libro, mia sorella, il mio papà, il tuo compleanno, la sua penna
• • Elaboration recognising that demonstratives also agree in number and gender to the noun, for example, Questa è la classe d’Italiano; Quella è la mia penna; Questo è lo zaino; Non mi piace quello
• • Elaboration asking questions using appropriate interrogatives, for example, Chi? Che? Cosa? Quale? Come?
• • Elaboration recognising that Italian uses cardinal and ordinal numbers differently to English, for example, dates, time

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• • Elaboration using prepositions of time, manner and place, to describe where and when, for example, alle 9, con mamma, a scuola, in bagno
• • Elaboration understanding that some prepositions (a, da, in, di, su) are articulated and combine with the article, for example, al telefono, alla television, dal dentista, sullo scaffale, nell’armadio
• • Elaboration using verbs describing state (essere), possession (avere), for example, Sto bene; Ho dodici anni; Non ho una penna.
• • Elaboration conjugating regular verbs describing actions in the present tense, for example, parlare, vedere, dormire cantare; Parlo inglese a casa; Vedi il libro? Dormi abbastanza? Pranziamo a scuola. Ceniamo insieme.
• • Elaboration recognising and using irregular verbs in formulaic expressions, for example, Vado a mangiare; Vengo a scuola a piedi; Faccio i compiti.
• • Elaboration using high frequency reflexive verbs, for example, mi alzo; mi diverto
• • Elaboration constructing simple sentences in Italian subject+verb+object; making statements, asking questions and giving/receiving instructions verb+object, for example, Chiudi il libro!
• • Elaboration using common conjunctions such as e, ma, perché, così, però, siccome
• • Elaboration forming negative statements and questions, for example, Non mi piace il gelato; Non mi piacciono gli spaghetti; Non ti piace sciare?
• • Elaboration using temporal markers such as Prima … poi … dopo … alla fine/ la mattina, il pomeriggio, la sera to sequence events or actions
• • Elaboration applying appropriate punctuation conventions, noting differences between Italian and English use of capital letters and using rules of capitalisation when creating their own texts, for example, omission of capitals with weekdays, months of the year and nationalities; different conventions with numbers: commas instead of full stops and colons, for example, alle 9,15 (at 9.15am); il 10,8% (10.8%)