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Competition for Schools
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ISMLA Original Writing Competition 2021


The competition is back again and (for Italian) open to all schools in the UK. For more information go to this page or download the instructions and Italian  titles here.
The deadline for submission is Friday 16th April.


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Express yourself in Lockdown


A celebration, not a test or a competition, but an opportunity for students to create and share a short performance to be viewed by others. Speaking in a foreign language, students perform a poem, a presentation, as sketch or dialogue which everyone can enjoy listening to. All to be completed by 28th February. For full information click here.


Resources to check out
  • Material for A Level and GCSE from Zigzag (fairly expensive but photocopiable and geared towards exams)
  • Gianfanco Conti's Italian Sentence Builders
  • Poetry Sound Library - archive of poets (many Italian) reading their own work.
  • Online Italian Club. Masses of online grammar and listening materials in particular. Well worth checking out and subscribing to.
  • Easy Italian News  for weekly news bulletins with transcript....
  • www.cinericordi.it  an online archive of material related to post-war Italian culture, and cinema in particular. There are in particular 160 video interviews that could be used in part or as a whole for listening comprehension.
  • ITALIAN CHILDREN'S STORIES .... read with associated texts and translations. From The Italian Experiment (also available in French, Spanish and German).
     Survey of Schools Teaching Italian

Many thanks to all those who took the time to complete the survey recently. If you would like to see what emerged, a summary of the findings can be downloaded from here. If anyone wants further information, just contact teachitalianuk@gmail.com

     AQA Speaking Endorsement 2021 

AQA have made available a recording of one of their live training sessions on the 2021 GCSE Speaking endorsement along with all the supporting materials and a FAQs booklet here:
  Notes and guidance: Speaking endorsement

Dante 700
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2021 is the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri. There are bound to be numerous celebrations and events to mark this year. Here are some ideas for you or for your students:
  •  From the Dark Forest to Paradise in 33 languages, an audio-book created specially for the occasion.
  • Then,  the Dante 700: Dante a Man for All Seasons series of seminars organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in London (for details of how to attend see the Institute events page)
  • Dante Illustrated: A special virtual exhibition from The Uffizi Gallery.
  • Katia Adler's mini series "Dante 2021" on Radio 4 about Dante's relevance for today.
Suggested reading in English:
  • Dante, A very short Introduction Hainsworth and Robey
  • Reading Dante; From Here to Eternity  Prue Shaw
  • Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man Barbara Reynolds
  • Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide  John Took
More:
  • Illustrations of the Commedia on the World of Dante site where you can find a lot more useful material
  • Don't forget the wonderful resources at the Princeton Dante Project!


Coronavirus-related teaching materials
  1. Reading Comprehension on 'La scuola a distanza' (School and daily routine)
  2. Two texts on coronavirus (Higher level GCSE - health and daily routine)
  3. Advanced text with listening (sound track) and translation on Il Paziente 1
  4. YouTube video : Il coronavirus spiegato ai bambini  

Useful Links
ISMLA

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The Italian Cultural  Institute in London  is arranging an amazing variety of events in this period, 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.

Exam boards
  • AQA Italian GCSE page
  • Edexcel Italian GCSE page
  • Edexcel Italian AS and A level page
  • CIE Italian Pre-U page
  • CIE Italian IGCSE page (9-1)

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