Book Title: Leggiamo

Author: Rossella Pescatori

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UNIT TOPICFUNCTIONSLISTENING AND SPEAKINGVOCABULARYGRAMMAR FOCUSREADINGWRITINGLIFE SKILLSPRONUNCIATION
UNIT 1:

CI PRESENTIAMO

Personal information

At School

The classroom

Identifying the letters of the alphabet

Identifying numbers

Identifying days and months

Identifying abbreviations

-identifying names

-using greetings

-identifying countries of origin

-exchanging personal information

-describing location

-finding out location

-saying the alphabet and numbers

-spelling numbers and names

-saying days and months

-saying your birth month

-using greetings

-using appropriate language to introduce self and others

-asking and giving location of things

-saying “excuse me”

-the alphabet

-numbers

-months and days

-persona; information

-countries and nationalities

-personal titles

-descriptive adjectives

-classroom objects

The verbs to be and to have

-indefinite and definite articles

-Subject pronouns

-Where is

-singular and plural nouns and adjectives

-yes/no questions

-reading a paragraph describing a person

-reading a letter describing a person

-writing a description about themselves

-writong a description of a schedule

-checking spelling

-understanding relations in the class (professor vs students)

-using calendars

-reading clocks

-Identifying skills

-reading emails

-pronouncing the letters C and G

-Understanding intornation in the questions

Unit 2: Family and Friends

Topic:

Family

Health

-describing actions

-talking about family members

-describing part of the body

-describing health problems

-expressing sympathy

-asking and answering questions about current activities

-answering questions about family

-asking about someone’s health

-family relationships

-daily activities

-body parts

-Descriptive adjectives

-present tense regular verbs

-irregular verbs in ARE

-possessive adjectives

–Reading a letter describing daily events

-reading a dialogue about routine

-interpreting the narrative voice

-writing a paragraph about your family-using family trees

-using an appointment card

-showing concern for someone’s health

-pronouncing key vocabulary
Unit 3: Daily activities and place where to live and clothes to wear–describing the place where to live

-chores

-buying clothes

-discussing chores

-asking location/accommodation

-go shopping

-house and part of the house

-chores

-household items

-clothes items

-verbs in ERE (regular and irregulars)

-MODAL verbs

To know (SAPERE AND CONOSCERE)

-reading an add for a rental place

-reading an ad for item on sale

Writing a description of your weekly routine-understanding household chores and the tools used for them

-understanding how to behave in a store

-using Euro currency

-Using multiple payment methods

-pronouncing key vocabulary
Unit 4:

Around town

Topic: place and directions

Daily activities and time

Free time activities and past experience

-describing location

-giving directions

-asking for direction

-inviting somebody to do an activity

-tell past events

-asking about a location

-describing your neighborhood

-clarifying directions

-invite someone to do something

-tell your previous experience in that place

-places in the city

-what to do and what to buy in the part of the cuty

-prepositions

-Past Tense (passato prossimo)

-reading a tourist brochure

-reading tourist information

-reading a story about a famous Italian person

-write an e-mail where you invite a friend to do something in a particular place and then tell him/her your previous experince there-reading and drawing maps

-getting directions

-tell about your past experience

-pronouncing key vocabulary

Author

Rossella Pescatori

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Subject

Language acquisition

Metadata

Title
Leggiamo
Author
Rossella Pescatori
Editor
Rossella Pescatori
Contributors
caterina peri; Shahrzad Zahedi; Caren Bernezet Parrish; and William J. Carrasco
License

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Leggiamo Copyright © by Rossella Pescatori is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Language acquisition
Institution
Long Beach City College