Italian Is Fun
By Concetta Giuliano & Heywood Wald | Year 1
Engaging Italian language curriculum
- Engaging lessons help students develop the building blocks of vocabulary and grammar while focusing on developing proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Humorous narratives, illustrated conversations, and abundant visuals make language learning accessible to all students.
- Each chapter builds cultural familiarity and insight into the daily life of various parts of the Italian-speaking world.
- Consisting of six parts, each part contains four lessons followed by a Ripasso unit in which language structure and vocabulary are repeated.
- Each lesson begins with thematically-related sets of drawings that convey the meaning of new words in Italian.
- Lessons contain short, entertaining narratives that feature new structural elements and vocabulary.
- Concise situational dialogues are included in each lesson.
- Conversations are followed by dialogue exercises that serve as springboards for additional personalized conversation.
- Two achievement tests to be used as is or modified by the teacher.
