This site is designed as a collaborative resource for teachers of Italian in secondary schools in the UK and their students.  If you would like to contribute in any way to the building of this site (contributing materials, editing or in any other way), please get in touch by sending an email to teachitalianuk@gmail.com.

Call for materials
With schools closed and many now having to teach from home, the need for materials online is greater than ever - Please look to share with colleagues by sending us suitable material to upload and share at teachitalianuk@gmail.com OR l if there is anything you would like put up, let us know and we will endeavour to help.

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Click here for information and download material prepared for the AQA GCSE session of 26/3 which has had to be cancelled..

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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) and a video to show your pupils?

Interesting resources to check out:

• 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.
  
• Vocabolario visivo on the RAI Educational site - short videos with transcripts of the audio on a whole range of topics.
• ITALIAN CHILDREN'S STORIES .... read with associated texts and translations. From The Italian Experiment (also available in French, Spanish and German).
  

Recent GCSE materials:

• A few 'literary' texts with exercises 
• 2 new exercises for GCSE 'future aspirations'
  

GCSE topic material - Probably best for revision and exam preparation:

• Free Time
• Holidays
• School
• Festivities
• Local area
• Technology

• Healthy living
• Relationships and marriage
• Brothers and sisters
• Homelessness
• Environment
  

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Useful External Links 

• Italian Bookshop
• Italian Institute
• The Society for Italian Studies
  
• Independent Schools Modern Languages Association (ISMLA)

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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Do get in touch!

Do let us know of any news about teaching Italian in UK schools. Has your school introduced Italian this year? Have you introduced a new course? Has a new teacher of Italian joined your school?
And don't forget to share materials and ideas with colleagues by publication on this site. Just email them to teachitalianuk@gmail.com