LA BELLA FIGURA – EXPERIENCE ITALIAN CULTURE Lesson Material – Level 2
LEZIONE 2 – UNIT 2 Topics: greetings; gender of nouns; definite articles (singular forms); indefinite articles. Activities: speaking; writing; language comprehension. Leggiamo il dialogo B pagina 17. Let’s read dialogue B page 17
Gender (singular nouns only) 1. Follow the explanation and complete the table with the following nouns Proper names: Sara – Marco – Luca – Italia - Australia – Canada – Giappone – Francia – Brasile – Marocco – Inghilterra – Spagna – Russia – Iran – India - Cina Names whose grammatical gender is determined by biological gender: signora – signore - signorina – fratello – sorella – amico – amica – ragazzo – ragazza – mamma – papà – studente – studentessa – zio – zia - cugina – cugino - nonno – nonna Common names: camera – albergo – chiave – paese – domenica – caffè – bar – lezione – mano - problema – crisi – autobus – lunedì – scatola - stadio – banca – ristorante - cucina MASCULINE
FEMININE
ENDINGS -o -a -e -i Consonant -ie,-trice, -zione
Definite Articles (= THE) Rule: They are used to introduce singular or plural names which point to something the speakers know. They precede the name they introduce and match its gender and number features. 2. Complete the table with the singular forms of the definite article DEFINITE ARTICLES (they also have plural forms) Noun begins with
Singular M
Examples F
M
Vowel
F
L’albergo è nuovo
L’Italia è in Europa
Z or S+consonant
Lo stadio è pieno
La scatola è chiusa
Other consonant
Il caffè è forte
La lezione è interessante
Indefinite articles (= A/AN) Rule: They are used to introduce a singular name. They precede it and match its gender. 3. Complete the table with the singular forms of the definite article Noun begins with Singular M
F
Examples
M
F
Vowel
C’è un albergo qui vicino
Sara è un’amica di famiglia
Z or S+consonant
C’è uno stadio nuovo
In cucina c’è una scatola di biscotti
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LA BELLA FIGURA – EXPERIENCE ITALIAN CULTURE Lesson Material – Level 2 Other consonant
Bevo un caffè ristretto
È una lezione interessante
3. Put the correct article in front of the nouns of the exercise number 1 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Speaking Read conversation A again then do exercise 1 page 15. Work in pairs. Student A asks question 1 and Student B answers. Then, Student B asks question 2 and Student A answers. And so on until the end of the questions. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Writing and Speaking Use conversation A as a guideline to build your own dialogue at the hotel. Work in pairs. One student is the customer one is the receptionist. Then, read it. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ L’impiccato (The hanged man) This is a typical Italian game; we used to play it at primary school but it is very helpful to learn the alphabet and new words. What you have to do is guess the word I am thinking about. You can try which whatever letter, but remember that any time you fail you’ll get closer to be hanged! 1.
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Homework: Exercise 3 page 16
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