Victorian Essential Learning Standards : Year 7 Italian Course Outline (SEMESTER ONLY COURSE)

LOTE Pathway 2 Level 5

Learning Focus
Introduction to Italy
- Gain some
information about the
cultural context of the
LOTE.

Lalfabeto italiano
Sounds of Italian.
- Learn the 16
consonants and 5
vowels that make up
the Italian alphabet.
- Learn what sounds
are made when certain
letters are placed
together.

Learning Activities
- Compare the Italian and
Australian Flags and Coats of
Arms to see which elements they
have in common and which
elements are different.
- Learn some basic history of
Italy by interpreting the
symbolism of these elements.
- Labels the oceans, seas,
mountains, and each of the 20
regions on a map of Italy and
their capital cities.
- Compare the size of Italy and
its population with the size and
population of Australia and
consider the historical and social
aspects that contribute to these.
- Workbook exercises.
- Say the Italian alphabet aloud.
- Practice saying particular
sound clusters aloud, such as: gl,
gn, sc
- Practise the guttural
pronunciation of c and g as in
ca, c, cu, ga, go, gu
- Practise the palatal
pronunciation of c and g as in ci,
ce, gi, ge
- Practise rolling the r.
Game: - Hangman
- Teacher spells words in

Standards
- Students interpret and present
knowledge about the LOTE, its
speakers and the countries in which
it is spoken.
-Students make comparisons
between Australia and Italy

Strands
Domains
DisciplineLOTE based Learning Italian

Dimensions
- Intercultural
knowledge and
language awareness

- Students can discriminate between

some sounds when listening to the
LOTE
- Students identify similar and
different sounds that letters make
when alone or in clusters
- Students can read words aloud
written in Italian, applying
knowledge of pronunciation and
letter-sound variation.
- Students can identify particular
sounds (eg vowels, consonants and
clusters) in the spoken language and

DisciplineLOTE
based Learning Italian

- Communicating in a
LOTE

Prayer Il Padre
Nostro.
Learn the Padre
Nostro (Our Father) in
Italian.

The Greetings:
- Greet people at
different times of the
day.
- Introduce yourself to
another person.
- Ask how that person
is.
- Respond to someone
who introduces
themselves.
- Introduce a third
person.
- Greet people using
the appropriate register
(tu or Lei).

Italian and students must

write down the letters
and guess the word
- Teacher says words
slowly in Italian and
students must write with
correct spelling of all
sounds.
- Listen to an MP3 recording of
the prayer or the teacher to
ensure correct pronunciation.
- Test each other in pairs over a
number of lessons.
- Participate in a Prayer-off
against another Italian class.

- Learn vocabulary
& sentence structures re
greetings
-Ask & answer questions:
What is your name?
What is his/her name?
How are you?
How is he/she ?
- Look at pictures of people
talking and decide whether they
are formal or informal situations.
Identify the appropriate register
for each.
- Workbook exercises
- Role play:
Greeting a teacher

write them down correctly, forming

words.

- Students read aloud and attempt to

apply knowledge of pronunciation,
punctuation, tone and letter-sound
variations in particular contexts.
- Simple routines are used to
introduce the sounds of the
language and to encourage students
to use the language.
- From the outset, students are
exposed to words, phrases and
sentences in the language.
- Students introduce themselves,
greet and farewell others using the
appropriate register and reproduced
modelled use of language.
- Students talk about themselves in
response to questions and ask
questions in response.
- Students are immersed in hearing
the language through role-plays

- Communicating in a
LOTE

- Communicating in a
LOTE

- Intercultural
knowledge and
language awareness

Greeting friends
Greeting an elderly
neighbour.

Numbers:
- Count from 1 to 100
- Know the correct
spelling of the
numbers.
- Ask and describe
someones age.

- Count correctly in Italian.

- Ask and answer questions
about someones age.
- Workbook exercises
- Games:
Bingo
Elimination
Buzz word

- Students can identify numbers

correctly from listening texts.
- Students participate in activities
where they practise exchanging
simple personal information
- Students can ask questions to find
out someones age
- Students can respond when asked
their age.

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE
Italian

-Communicating in
a LOTE

Days and Months

- Know the days of the
week in Italian
- Know the months of
the year in Italian.
- Know the date.
-Ask and respond
when someones
birthday is.

- Learn vocabulary and sentence

structures re. days, months, the
date and birthdays.
- Be able to write the date
correctly in Italian in workbook
each lesson.
- In pairs ask and respond to
find out when someones
birthday is.
-be able to identify and say
aloud some famous dates in
Italian (eg Christmas Day)
- workbook exercises
- Game:
Elimination
Tornado
- Learn vocabulary and sentence
structures re. where one lives
and goes to school.
- In pairs, ask and respond

- Students make use of cognates

Disciplinebetween Italian and English
based
(months)
Learning
-Students explore word meanings
and apply this knowledge to the days
of the week vocabulary (names
relate to the planets)
- Students can identify the days and
months in listening texts
- Students can ask questions to find
out the date
- Students can ask questions to find
out when someones birthday is
- Students can respond when asked
when their birthday is.

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

- Students participate in activities

where they practise exchanging
simple personal information
- Students can ask questions to find

LOTE Italian

More about myself

- Say where one lives
- Say where one goes
to school

Disciplinebased
Learning

- Intercultural
knowledge and
language awareness

- Communicating in
a LOTE

I colori
- Know the colours in
Italian
-Describe what colour
something is

Lora
- Revise the numbers
- Know how to ask
what time it is
- Be able to give the
time on the hour and
half hour

where each other lives and goes

to school.
-Survey the class in Italian to
discover the most popular
suburb of residence.
- Create a short cartoon strip (I
Fumetti) story using all the
greetings, birthday, residence
and school vocabulary.

out where someone lives and goes to

school
- Students can respond when asked
where they live and go to school
- Students begin to write short
sentences, based on models and
memorised sequences

- Learn the colours vocabulary

- Learn that colours are
adjectives and that there are
three different groups of endings
for these words (-o / -e /
irregular group)
- In pairs, point to objects and
ask and respond what colour
that object is
- Workbook activities
- Languages online activities
- Game: Bingo
- Revise the numbers
- Learn how to ask for and give
the time on the hour
- Learn how to ask and give the
time on the half hour
- Learn the expressions for
saying it is midday and
midnight
- In pairs, look at pictures of
clocks showing different
times. Students must ask for
and give the time shown
- Ask aloud what time students

- Students can identify colours

correctly in listening texts
- Students can ask questions to find
out what colour different objects are
- Students become more aware that
there are technical terms for parts of
sentences (colours are adjectives,
and therefore can change endings)
- Students use electronic resources
(Languages online)

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

- Students revise the numbers

- Students can identify times
correctly in listening texts
- Students can ask a question to find
out what time it is
- Students learn the colloquial time
and are made award that the 24-hour
clock is commonly used in Italy
- Students learn that the time in
Italian is told in hours and that they
must be aware of singular and plural
hours.

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

ESSERE & AVERE

- Know the personal
pronouns, I, you,
he/she/it, we, you, they
in Italian
- Know the verb
ESSERE (to be)
- Describe people
using the verb essere
- Know the verb
AVERE (to have)
- Say what people have
using the verb avere

Adjectives
- Use adjectives to
describe people, place
and things
Nouns
- Recognise a noun

do certain activities (eg eat

dinner, start school, go to
bed). Students must give the
time of that activity in Italian.
- Learn the personal pronouns
and verbs ESSERE and AVERE
in Italian
- Write simple paragraphs
describing themselves, family
and friends using the verb
ESSERE
- Write simple paragraphs
saying what they (students) have
using the verb AVERE and
revising the numbers
- reading comprehension
- workbook exercises
- Languages online activities
- Games: verb bingo
verb elimination
guess who? - Teacher
describes different students in
the class aloud using the verbs
ESSERE & AVERE and
students must guess who is
being described.
- Begin to use adjectives to
create short sentences, while
also learning the verbs ESSERE
and AVERE.
- Learn the endings of adjectives
in the singular form (-o, -a)
- Learn the concept of masculine
and feminine, and that all nouns

- Students learn technical terms for

parts of a sentence (verbs are
ACTION words; the ARE, -ERE,
-IRE ending of verbs, pronouns say
who is doing the action but are not
always necessary in Italian)
- Students write short paragraphs in
Italian, firstly based on models and
then their own, about themselves,
friends and family
- Students use electronic resources
(Languages online)

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

- Students reflect on adjectives as a

way of describing a person, place or
thing
- Students learn that adjectives in
Italian usually come after the noun.

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

- Students reflect on how the Italian

language system works with regards

Disciplinebased

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

- Say whether a noun is are either masculine or feminine

masculine or feminine, - Learn how to recognise a
singular or plural
masculine or feminine noun by
its ending
- Learn how to use the
dictionary to check if a noun is
masculine or feminine
- Learn how to change a noun
from singular to plural
- workbook activities
The definite article
- Learn the 7 definite articles
- Know how to say the (singular and plural) and the
in Italian
rules for when each must be
- Talk about likes and
used
dislikes
- Read texts in Italian and
highlight all uses of the definite
article. Use this activity to
discuss the use of the definite
article in Italian (used more
frequently than in English)
- List and describe likes and
dislikes, using nouns and
definite articles
- reading comprehension
- workbook activities
- Languages online activities
Regions of Italy
(continued)
(Assignment)
- Learn about the
composition of Italy
- Investigate one
region in detail

- Discuss the structure of Italy

20 regions, each divided into
provinces.
- Choose / Receive (from
teacher) a particular region and
research it under 10 subtopics:
History, Folklore, Products,

to masculine/feminine,
singular/plural.
- Students make use of cognates
between Italian and English to begin
using nouns in their writing, eg
animale, televisione, matematica,

Learning

- Students learn that there are 7

versions of the definite article in
Italian, unlike the one we have in
English
- Students reflect on the use of the
definite article in Italian (must agree
with the noun in number and gender;
used in front of every noun)
- Students learn strategies for
recognising whether a noun is
masculine or feminine (use
dictionary or use the definite article
to find out)
- Students talk about their own likes
and dislikes
- Students use electronic resources
(Languages online,
www.wordreference.com )
- students select, interpret and
present knowledge about the LOTE,
its speakers and the countries in
which it is spoken.
- Students learn about the basic
geography and history of Italy
- Students develop their

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Communicating in
a LOTE

Disciplinebased
Learning

LOTE Italian

- Intercultural
knowledge and
language awareness

- Report on that region, Language, Food, Legends,

in both written and oral Famous people from that
form
region, Rivers, Mountains,
Capital city / provinces.
- Students produce an
informative written report on
their region, in English
- Students then give a short oral
presentation on their region to
the class, in Italian.

understanding that cultural diversity

exists and that customs and
traditions vary within Italy and over
time
- Students use modelled language to
create an informative oral
presentation on a specific region of
Italy
- Students express their research on
a region in electronic form (eg.
PowerPoint presentation)
- students practise speaking aloud in
the LOTE