Languages Online

Italian

Languages Online activities will be a useful resource for students working towards the Achievement Standards for Levels F-8.

Languages Online activities align with the following content descriptions. Please note that the activities relate to some (not all) of the elaborations for each content description.

Foundation – Level 2	Levels 3 and 4	Levels 5 and 6	Levels 7 and 8 (7-10 sequence)
Communicating
Socialising
Interact with the teacher and peers to greet, to introduce themselves, and to name and describe favourite things, friends, family members and special talents, through action-related talk and play (VCITC001)	Interact and socialise with the teacher and peers to exchange personal information and describe people, places, things and everyday routines relating to self, school and home (VCITC020)	Interact to share interests, leisure activities, feelings, opinions and preferences (VCITC039)	Socialise with peers and adults to exchange greetings, good wishes, factual information and opinions about self, family and friends, routines, shared events, leisure activities, interests, likes and dislikes (VCITC096)
Participate in classroom routines, games, instructions and shared activities (VCITC004)			Participate in spoken and written transactions, including purchasing goods and services, and give and follow directions and instructions (VCITC098)
			Develop language to interact in classroom routines and tasks, for example, posing questions, asking for repetition, rephrasing, explaining, asking how to say something in Italian, expressing opinion, and giving and following instructions (VCITC099)
Informing
Locate specific items of information in texts using early literacy skills(VCITC005)	Obtain and process factual information about people, routines, responsibilities and interests (VCITC024)	Listen to, view and read texts and gather information from a range of sources, including concepts drawn from other learning areas(VCITC043)
Give factual information about known people, everyday objects, family celebrations and personal experiences (VCITC006)	Give factual information about people, objects, places and events in texts supported by graphics or illustrations(VCITC025)
Translating
	Translate texts to compare meanings and share understandings about aspects of Italian language and culture that are different from English (VCITC028)
Reflecting
Begin noticing what is ‘new’ or ‘interesting’ in Italian language and culture and recognising similarities and differences between Italian and Australian cultural practices and related language use (VCITC011)		Compare everyday social experiences and related language use and consider own responses and reactions and those of others (VCITC049)
Understanding
Systems of language
Reproduce the sounds of the Italian language (VCITU013)	Experiment with pronunciation and intonation and use rules of spelling (VCITU032)	Develop pronunciation and intonation of Italian-specific sounds (VCITU051)	Develop awareness of features of the Italian sound system, including pronunciation, syllable stress, rhythm and intonation, and how these are represented in written form (VCITU108)
Notice and use some aspects of the Italian language system, including gender forms, simple sentence structures and the placement of adjectives (VCITU014)	Use key grammatical structures to form simple sentences, including the use of possessive pronouns, prepositions, definite and indefinite articles, and gender and singular/plural forms (VCITU033)	Use grammatical knowledge, to interpret and create meaning in Italian (VCITU052)	Understand and use key features and patterns of the Italian grammatical system, including definite and indefinite articles, gender and agreement, present tense of regular and common irregular verbs, and simple sentence construction (VCITU109)
Understand that language is organised as texts (VCITU015)	Recognise how grammatical structures are used to form simple texts (VCITU034)
Language variation and change
Recognise that different words are used in Italian to address and greet different people according to relationship, setting and time of the day (VCITU016)	Understand that language use varies according to the participants’ age, gender and relationship, and the context of use (VCITU035)	Recognise that language use varies according to the contexts of situation and culture (VCITU054)
Role of language and culture
Notice and reflect (mainly in English) on different cultural practices and the specific ways of using language in different cultures (VCITU019)	Compare and reflect on different cultural practices and the ways in which language use reflects culture-specific ideas (VCITU038)