Week 9/5-9/8 - Bronx High School of Science



Bronx High School of Science

Valerie Reidy, Principal

Lisa Rocchio, Assistant Principal Foreign Language

Renata Paolercio, Italian Teacher

FT3 Course Outline School Year 2007-2008

Week 1 3rd September (4-day week)

Course Standards, Review Sheet, Administrative Business

Review Activities: Summer descriptions (someone you spent time with over the summer – past tense and adjectives)

Adjectives: Name chart

Rules of agreement (noun and adjective endings)

Interviews: names, past-times, family, studies (getting to know classmates)

Week 2 10th September

Practice with adjectives – reinforcement activities

Review months/days

Numbers and articles (definite and indefinite)

Primi Contatti: make up biographical information as a famous person – using that information get to know various people circulating room and practicing introductions and conversations

Week 3 17th September

Reading: Una lingua straniera

Diaologue: Gianni & Maria

Review telling time and related expressions

Interrogative pronouns: forming questions

Test 1: preliminary and chapters 1&2

Verb practice “ A tu per tu” 4A,4B

Paolo Meneguzzi “Sei Diversa”

Week 4 24th September

Finish song – “Sei Diversa”

C’è vs. Ci Sono (using description of NY)

Describing a place you like / dislike using adjectives

“Che lavoro fa?” (from Espresso) with listening activities

Review –are,-ere,-ire verb endings

Week 5 1st October

Quiz –are, -ere verbs

Handout and exercise on irregular verbs: andare, venire, dare, uscire, dire, fare

More practice on adjectives: matching exercise with regular and irregular words and adjectives (from Espresso)

Handout: directions In Città

“Porta Portese” – Al mercato (related vocabulary)

Week 6 8th October

Activity: “Al Mercato” – venditori/clienti (conversation practice)

Verbs/Phrases: avere bisogno di, volere, quanto costa?, costa...,vendere, comprare

Summary: Using past tense to describe activity : purchases and sales

“Strani Amori” – Laura Pausini (with grammar exercises)

Week 7 15th October

Continue work on “Strani Amori”

Writing biographies (20 years from now, describing what you have done….)

Adjectives and past tense: expressions scorso, fa, mai, già

Week 8 22nd October

Test: Adjectives and Past Tense (Passsato Prossimo)

Expressions: spesso, mai, qualche volta, sempre

Listening activity (Espresso p.51)

Week 9 29th October

Reflexive verb review

Activity using selected TV character

Halloween descriptions

Original stories: Two TV characters meet (Treatment of original episode – using reflexive verbs)

Week 10 5th November

Quiz: Reflexive verbs

Direct object pronouns (introduction)

“Ora o mai più” by Mina

Week 11 12th November

Practive with direct objects/pronouns

Translating phrases: English – Italian, Italian to English (with verbs amare, guardare)

Possessive adjectives (sentence completions and reinforcement activities)

Week 12 19th November

Quiz: Direct object pronouns

Review: In Città (places and associated activities)

Using direct object pronouns (Che cosa fai al mercato? Compro la frutta. La compro.)

Practice with pictures in città

Reading: Un Estate Tutta Diversa – chapter 3 I preparativi (new adjectives, expressions and vocabulary)

“La Vita è” by Nek

Week 13 26th November

Un Estate Tutta Diversa (vocab related to travel, dovere, potere, volere)

Summarizing reading

Personal questions on travel

Un Estate Tutta Diversa – chapter 4 Il Viaggio

Chapter 8 – Oggi in Italia – proposing a trip to your family (dialogue)

Write original dialogue based on reading

Week 14 3rd December

Test: Possessive adjectives, direct object pronouns, irregular verbs dovere, potere, volere (in present and past tenses)

Intro to Imperfect Tense

Writing activity: What were you like as a child? (using imperfect)

5 scenarios for using the imperfect (with pictures)

Week 15 10th December

Practice exercises: Imperfect (Nuova Grammatica Comunicativa)

Activity: Giocando in Italiano Describing what each character “was doing” when a fire started in the building

Interrupted actions: imperfect

Week 16 17th December

Staged Burglary in the classroom – To demonstrate the use of the imperfect with the passato prossimo

Describe what was going on when theft took place

Practice Distinguishing between the two tenses

Winter Recess: 24th December (12/24-1/1)

Week 17 2nd January 2008

Midyear Review & Practice

Week 18 7th January

Midyear Review

In class midyear: 1/10, 1/11

Week 19 14th January, 15th January

Return and go over exams (only two days of regular classes scheduled this week)

Week 20 21st January

No regular classes - exams

Week 21 28th January (term ends 1/29)

Chapter 10 dialogue on fashion

Project on “La moda Italiana” - students choose a style to describe and design sample outfit that represents that style with accompanying written description

Week 22 4th February

Design original clothing line using “l’abbigliamento e i tessuti”

Vocab to name and describe each item

Presenting to the class

Week 23 11th February

Presenting to the class (cont’d)

Sapere vs. conoscere: interview classmates using questions that demonstrate

difference between these two verbs

Reading : Milano

Midwinter Recess: 18th February (2/18-2/22)

Week 24 25th February

Chapter 11- dialogue on ski trip in Torino

geography: ski resorts in various northern cities

Winter sports – associated vocabulary

Week 25 3rd March

Vocabulary : il corpo umano

Expressions relating to body/bodyparts

Reflexive verbs relating to oggetti personali utili

Week 26 10th March

Pronomi indiretti and verbs that require them

Il verbo piacere – likes and dislikes

Imperative : formale

Week 27 17th March (Friday 3/21 - School is closed)

Activity: giving guided tour of Bronx Science to Italian visitors

Using imperative formal

Reading on Torino

Week 28 24th March

Chapter 12- dialogue on going to a soccer game

Sports and vocabulary relating to various sports

Reading: Gli Sport in Italia

Week 29 31st March

Activity: in groups students will each research a sport and present a lesson to class on the rules and objects of that particular game

Week 30 14th April

Simple future tense: Che sarà nel nostro futuro?

Collage on what our lives will be like in the future

Spring Recess 21st April (4/21-4/25)

Week 31 28th April

Sketches of inventions of the future: how the world will be different, with future tense captions

Week 32 5th May

Irregular future stems

Trapassato: actions that had taken place before another in the past

Using historical events to demonstrate difference between simple past tenses and trapassato

Week 33 12th May

Dialogue over dinner at a birthday party – introduces new vocabulary and expressions

Reading: la gastronomia italiana

Further vocabulary on foods, stores, and vendors specific to product categories

Research regional recipes

Cooking demonstrations in Nutritional Science Room (subject to scheduling)

Week 34 19th May

Chapter 13: Condizionale: things we would like, requests, offers, advice….

Writing assignment on what we would like to see change in our living environments

Week 35 26th May

Pronomi combinati

“Da” (tempo e luogo)

Verbi riflessivi con significato di reciprocità

Writing exercise : using past tenses to describe how you met someone in the past

Dialogue: choosing a restaurant to eat at using the conditional and expressing preferences

Week 36 2nd June

Review for in-class final exam TBA

Week 37 9th June

Review for in-class final exam TBA

Week 38 16th June

Regents Week

Week 39 23rd June

Regents Week

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