Benvenuti.
This site was conceived as a collaboration between teachers of Italian in the UK. If you find this site useful, the best you can do to say thank you is to contribute some material of your own! Contributing is easy. Just email your materials to www.teachitalianuk@gmail.com. Original work please in word-processable form (no scans, .pdf etc. ). Grazie mille.
This site was conceived as a collaboration between teachers of Italian in the UK. If you find this site useful, the best you can do to say thank you is to contribute some material of your own! Contributing is easy. Just email your materials to www.teachitalianuk@gmail.com. Original work please in word-processable form (no scans, .pdf etc. ). Grazie mille.
COMPETITIONS
Coming soon for next term: GCHQ National Language Competition
GCHQ will be launching its National Language Competition (NLC) on November 7th 2022. The online competition will be targeted at Year 9s and aims to inspire language learning by making languages fun; the end goal being to encourage language uptake at GCSE.A school may submit as many teams of four as they wish and, in these teams, students will tackle a range of language-related puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult and from European languages to rarer ones and even made-up languages. Over a period of five days, they will capture flags to earn points on their language journey which will total up at the end of the week and affect their ranking on a national leaderboard.
Teachers will be invited to register teams for the NLC at the beginning of September through to October and, during the competition itself, teachers will be able to see how their teams are doing via a scoreboard on the platform. The overall winning team will be the team at the end of the 5 days with the most points collected from puzzles and a trophy will be presented by GCHQ Director, Sir Jeremy Fleming, to this team in GCHQ’s building in Cheltenham at the beginning of December.
Schools/teachers who are interested in taking part in the competition, should email: NLC@gchq.gov.uk
Further comms about how to sign up for the competition will be sent out to schools at the beginning of September.
Teachers will be invited to register teams for the NLC at the beginning of September through to October and, during the competition itself, teachers will be able to see how their teams are doing via a scoreboard on the platform. The overall winning team will be the team at the end of the 5 days with the most points collected from puzzles and a trophy will be presented by GCHQ Director, Sir Jeremy Fleming, to this team in GCHQ’s building in Cheltenham at the beginning of December.
Schools/teachers who are interested in taking part in the competition, should email: NLC@gchq.gov.uk
Further comms about how to sign up for the competition will be sent out to schools at the beginning of September.
A new site to explore
Have a look at this site - lingcookies.com - where there is a whole host of interesting looking material for students (and teachers)
![]() Italian Teachers Day
It was wonderful to see so many at the teachers day in London on Saturday. 5th March Materials can be found here. A huge thanks to Francis Holland School for hosting it and to our sponsors, the Society for Italian Studies, the Independent Schools Modern Languages Association, La Scuola Italiana a Londra and the Italian Cultural Institute. |
Did you know of this site?
Materiali didattici produced by Adalgisa Serio and Anna Maria Sheikh at CDLCI in Manchester with a wealth of teaching and revision materials for Primary, GCSE and AS level. Suitable links have been put on individual thematic pages throughout this site. ![]() The Italian Cultural Institute in London arranges an amazing variety of events, so do sign up for its newslettter and explore its Vimeo channel for material from past events. Some may be of interest to students such as an interview with Carofiglio and a discussion about Il giardino dei Finzi Contini. See also links to short videos of 'new Italian' performers here.
![]() "An online magazine about all things Italian, for all lovers of Italy and Italian culture. Inspired by our years abroad in Italy," from Durham University students.
Book recommendations: Final year students Tom and Ava chose their 10 favourite Italian books to read. Their enthusiasm shines through - why not suggest your 6th formers have a look? |
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