Level One, Tuesday, November 6, Seventh Lesson
-Compiti (homework) Listed in order of importance:
1. Start on page 102: "Cose e persone vicine e lontane". Questo and Quello". Read pages 102, 103, 104, and do exercises A and B in Practice Set 30.
2. Pages 106 and 107: Reading and Comprehension Activities for Chapter 7.
3. Start on page 110: "Come Descrivere le Cose e le Persone" Adjectives. Their endings change to match the noun they modify. Read the section and do the exercises in practice set 31.
4. Start on page 117: "Giorni, Stagioni, Mesi" Days of the Week, the Seasons, the Months. Read the section and do the exercises in practice set 35. Memorize the names of all the days, seasons, and months.
- 5. Handout (gold) - #3 Practice. -ere and -are verbs. This handout just asks you to conjugate these verbs in the present tense: cantare (to sing), provare(to try), lavorare (to work), ricordare (to remember), viaggiare (to travel), volare (to fly), and lasciare (to leave behind, to let); dividere (to divide), chiudere (to close), chiedere (to ask for), spingere (to push), perdere (to lose) and prendere (to take).
- clicca qui for the conjugations
6. Handout (blue) - "Parole da ricordare: al negozio" Study the vocabulary on both sides. We'll use it in class next week.
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-What We Did in Class
- - Daniele ha un libro ganzo della seconda guerra mondiale.
- Daniele has a really cool book from WW II.
-Conoscere, sapere. If the sentence you're trying to translate into Italian could be rephrased "familiar with", then you should use conoscere instead of sapere. Sapere means to know how to do something, or to know a fact.
-Dialogue on page 95.
- -Quiz: Translate into Italian
- I agree - Sono d'accordo. D'accordo.
- You are right. - Tu hai ragione.
- You're wrong. - Hai torto.
- I need a ticket. - Ho bisogno di un biglietto.
- a round-trip ticket - un biglietto di andata e ritorno
- I like it. - Mi piace.
- I like them. - Mi piacciono.
- Do you know Silvio? - Conosci Silvio?
- Do you know the Dolomites? - Conosci i Dolomiti?
- I'm going to Italy. - Vado in Italia.
- I'm going to Napoli. - Vado a Napoli.
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- -Prop Practice: Questo & Quello (this & that) Questo and quello each have four regular forms when they're by themselves (pronouns). If they are used as adjectives before a noun, quello will change its endings just like the definite article does:
- il - quel___
- la - quella___
- lo - quello___
- l' - quell'___
- le - quelle__
- gli - quegli___
- i - quei_
- - Aggettivi. We read page 20 of "Parlate con Noi" (our little booklet). We read the adjectives on page 110 of the text. We read our blue list of adjectives from week 3 (Aggettivi - bello/brutto). We read Parole da Ricordare: Le Persone. we described our fictional families, based on magazine pictures and movie pictures.
- Com'è ? - What is he like? What is she like? What is it like?
- Come sono? - What are they like?
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- If you look up an adjective in the dictionary and it ends in -o, it will have four different endings based on number and gender:
- bello, bella, belle, belli
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- If you see an adjective on a list or in a dictionary that ends in an -e, it will have two different endings, one singular and one plural:
- felice, felici
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- -Mesi, Stagioni: months and seasons, page 117. We read their names out loud.
- i mesi sono:
- gennaio
- febbraio
- marzo
- aprile
- maggio
- giugno
- luglio
- agosto
- settembre
- ottobre
- novembre
- dicembre
- le stagioni sono:
- la primavera
- l’estate
- l’autunno
- l’inverno
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- -Verb practice of the verbs on page 99.
-Preposition practice and translation:
Vado in Italia con mio marito.
Partiamo fra tre giorni.
Vado a Roma.
Restiamo a Roma per una settimana.
Andiamo da Roma a Napoli in treno.
Restiamo a Napoli per cinque giorni.
Andiamo da Napoli a Taormina in vaporetto.
Restiamo in Italia dal due aprile al venti aprile.
- I'm going to Italy with my husband.
- We're leaving in three days.
- I'm going to Rome.
- We're staying in Rome for a week.
- We're going from Rome to Napoli by train.
- We're going from Napoli to Taormina by ferry.
- We're staying in Italy from the second of April until the 20th of April.
- -Two-way translation exercise: "Cerchiamo un ristorante"
- -Pratica: da, a, alle, & numeri, alla stazione ferroviaria
- -Parole da Ricordare:
- la carta - the map
- la mappa - the map
- A che pagina? - On which page?
- magro - thin
- snello - thin
- ubriacone / ubriacona- a drunk person (m / f)
- ubriaco - drunk (adjective)
- buffo - funny
- grasso - fat