Scotch College

ITALIAN Year 10 — 2012

Student Outcomes

 Semester 1:

• talk about the weather 
• use the 24 hour clock 
• describe daily routine 
• request, locate and purchase grocery items 
• talk about favorite leisure activities 
• talk about past events 
• seek information about public transport 
• plan a trip
• make an appointment to do something 
• make comparisons
• ask for ‘some’ things

Course Content

• Topics:  Ecology, environment, eco-tourism, weather, grocery shopping, cooking and food, tourism, travel, public transport, train travel, sightseeing in Rome. 
• Grammar:  Reflexive verbs, irregular verbs ‘dire’ and ‘volere’, prepositions, partitive article, direct object pronouns, ‘ed’ and ‘ad’, perfect tense, irregular past participles, impersonal ‘si’, forms of ‘to know’, modal verbs, the comparative, negative expressions, pronouns ‘ci’ and ‘ne’, ‘-ista’ nouns. 
• Culture:  Italy as a tourist destination. 

Student Outcomes

 Semester 2:

• talk about work experience
• talk about work you would like to do in the future
• describe clothing and purchasing clothing
• conduct a phone conversation 
• plan an outing 
• order at a restaurant 
• describe what you used to do 
• give instructions 
• make purchases at the chemist’s 
• withdraw money from the bank 
• book accommodation 

Course Content

• Topics:  Fashion, clothing, colors, work experience, occupations, using the telephone, at a restaurant, Venice, parts of the body, at the doctor’s, at the pharmacy, booking a hotel room, Florence, the Renaissance, the Risorgimento. 
• Grammar:  Reflexive verbs – with modals, perfect tense - direct object pronouns, irregular verbs ‘uscire, dare, piacere’, indirect object pronouns, object pronouns with perfect tense, the imperfect tense, use of past tenses, the imperative, irregular nouns, the future tense. 
• Culture:  A region of Italy. 

Assessment 

Examination Reading Tasks

Listening and Speaking Tasks Writing Tasks