Italian Early Level
I giorni della settimana
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
Vocabulary
Days of the week
Aim to teach all 7 days before leading up to months and birthdays in 1st
and 2nd level.
Che giorno e`?
What day is it?
E`
It’s
lunedi`
martedi`
mercoledi`
giovedi`
venerdi`
sabato
domenica
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in Italian
Che giorno e`?
E` lunedi`
E` martedi`
E` mercoledi`
E` giovedi`
E` venerdi`
E` sabato
E` domenica
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.
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.
lunedi`
martedi`
mercoledi`
giovedi`
venerdi`
sabato
domenica
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.
Che giorno e`?
Tuesday
Monday
Sunday
Wednesday
Che giorno e`?
Friday
Tuesday
Thursday
Sunday
Che giorno e`?
Saturday
Tuesday
Monday
Thursday
Che giorno e`?
Tuesday
Monday
Sunday
Wednesday
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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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.
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
I giorni della settimana
ICT Resources online
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.
Arrivederci!