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.
COMPETITIONS
Trinity College, Cambridge - Essay Competition

“‘People who speak two or more languages or dialects sometimes switch between them within the same conversation, and even within the same sentence. What reasons make people switch languages (or dialects)? Why is this interesting for linguists? Should linguists prescribe if switching is good or bad?’” 
For students up to and including year 12
Deadline 1st August

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ISMLA Creative Writing Competition 2022
Entries due in by Tuesday 3rd May, at 4.00pm!

Full details can be found here. We hope you liked the titles for Italian!
This annual prize for poetry in translation opens once more in May 2022. Do follow this link to find out more and how to register.

All teachers who register will receive regular resources and activities to help them to integrate creative translation into their teaching.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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"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 have chosen their 10 favourite Italian books to read. Their enthusiasm shines through - why not suggest your 6th formers have a look?
Promote Italian
A presentation to interest pupils in Italian