2. Italian Early Level I giorni della settimana

4. Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of the language. Listen and join in with simple songs and rhymes. Actively take part in simple daily routine language Participate in familiar games

5. Vocabulary Days of the week Aim to teach all 7 days before leading up to months and birthdays in 1 st and 2 nd level. Che giorno e`?What day is it? E`It’s lunedi`Monday martedi`Tuesday mercoledi`Wednesday giovedi` Thursday venerdi`Friday sabatoSaturday domenicaSunday NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in Italian

6. Che giorno e`?

7. E` lunedi`

8. E` martedi`

9. E` mercoledi`

10. E` giovedi`

11. E` venerdi`

12. E` sabato

13. E` domenica

14. Embedding the language Use the Italian day of the week classroom signs (on the website) and ask pupils to pick the correct one each day.

15. Sample activities You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Greetings.

16. lunedi` martedi` mercoledi` giovedi` venerdi` sabato domenica

17. Che giorno e`? 1 Pupils should look at the slides, listen to the day of the week in Italian and try and match the day of the week to the correct word in English. You could support this further by using day of the week fans so that pupils could do their own individual version.

18. Che giorno e`? TuesdaySunday MondayWednesday

19. Che giorno e`? FridayThursday TuesdaySunday

20. Che giorno e`? SaturdayMonday TuesdayThursday

21. Che giorno e`? TuesdaySunday MondayWednesday

22. Che giorno e`? 2 Pupils should look at the slides and try and guest which day of the week it is hidden behind the question mark. To support this they could have days of the week on cards in front of them. This can be further supported

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33. Songs and videos! You will find a bank of sample songs and videos which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of songs and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Days of the Week and Months.

34. IL PULCINO LUNEDÌ CHIUSIN, CHIUSINO. MARTEDÌ BUCÒ L'OVINO. SBUCÒ FUORI MERCOLEDÌ. PIO, PIO, PIO...FE' GIOVEDÌ. VENERDÌ FU UN BEL PULCINO. BECCÒ SABATO UN GRANINO. LA DOMENICA MATTINA AVEVA GIÀ LA SUA CRESTINA

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37. You will find a bank of sample ICT activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. Each of the slides contains an image of the website page. If you click on the image it will take you to the page. Alternatively you can use a link address which you will find in the slide notes. ICT Resources online

39. Arrivederci!