Scotch College

LOTE – ITALIAN Year 9 — 2012

Rationale

Students wishing to commence the study of Italian in Year 9 are required to select two semesters’ units of Italian and to have achieved no less than a B average in the Languages they have studied in Year 7 and Year 8.

It is strongly recommended that another Language continue to be studied at least in Year 9, to facilitate ongoing language learning skills.

Course Content

Semester 1:

• greetings and introducing yourself and other people
• talking about where you live
• asking and saying how you are
• classroom objects
• days of the week
• likes and dislikes
• school life in Italy
• peoples ages - numbers
• months of the year
• family members
• telling the time
• animals
• colors 

Grammar Subject pronoun the plural, irregular verbs essere and avere , formal and informal greetings, asking questions, negating, gender of nouns, the definite article, the indefinite article, agreement of adjectives, the present tense of –are, -ere, -ire and isc verbs.  Abitare a/in , adjectives – gender and position, use of piacere with reflexive pronoun, questo and questa , numbers.

Culture:   The Geography of Italy.

Semester 2: 

• countries and cities
• nationalities and languages
• telling the time
• going to places
• types of transport
• directions
• food – pizza and ingredients
• different types of pasta
• the Euro
• sports

Grammar Irregular verbs andare, venire, fare , a + definite article, da + definite article, piacere , quantative words molto, tanto, troppo , reflexive verbs, irregular verbs dire, volere , articulated prepositions, use of bello and quello , the suffix issimo , possessives, the adjective buono .

Culture   The national sport of Italy: Il Calcio (soccer).