Competition for Schools

 
ISMLA Original Writing Competition 2021

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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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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 the recent nterview with Carofiglio and a discussion about Il giardino dei Finzi Contini.

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Interesting resources to check out

Recently published:

Gianfanco Conti's
Italian Sentence Builders

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• 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).

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Useful External Links 

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

Dante 700

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, in the short term, the Dante 700: Dante a Man for All Seasons series of seminars starting on 12th January organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
• 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.
  

Don't forget the wonderful resources at the Princeton Dante Project!

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La Prima della Scala 2020
Click below to see a new worksheet

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  

Il divario Nord-Sud

Booklet for teaching the A Level 'Divario Nord-Sud' sub-theme produced by Ruth Glynn and Cecilia Brioni of the University of Bristol and Peter Langdale. For more information and to download, click here.

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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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