Ryton Students - Departments – Italian – Overview

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Year 10
Topic Covered	When	Content			Opportunities for parents to help
My World	September - October	Self, family & friends Interests & Hobbies Home & Local Environment		Nouns/genders/plurals Articles/adjectives Numbers/dates Present tense/adverbs Possessives/prepositions	Test vocabulary Encourage students to use approved websites. Encourage students to read in Italian.
	November - December	Daily Routine School		Reflexive verbs/ pronouns/ indefinite adjectives/ present progressive/times
	January – February	Future Plans		Future Tense/ adverbs of time
Holiday Time & Travel	January - February	Travel, transport & finding the way Tourism	Imperative/forms of address Interrogatives
	March - April	Accommodation Holiday Activities	Simple conditional tense Perfect/imperfect tenses
	April - May	Services	Comparison of adjectives
Work & Lifestyle	April - May	Home Life	Reflexive forms / adverbs/ negative expressions
	June - July	Healthy Living Part-time jobs and work experience	Impersonal verbs Past definite tenses

Year 11
Topic Covered	When	Content		Opportunities for parents to help
Work & Lifestyle continued	September - October	Leisure Shopping	Pluperfect/past & present tenses/ Comparison of adverbs/translation of “some”	Test vocabulary Encourage students to use approved websites. Encourage students to read in Italian.
The Young Person in Society	November - December	Character & relationships The Environment	Reflexive verbs/adjectives/ subjunctive Conditional tense/impersonal verbs
	January - February	Education Careers & future plans	The Passive Future / Conditional tenses
	March - April	Social Issues, Choices & Responsibilities REVISION	Government of verbs/impersonal & subjunctive expressions

Year 12 & 13 As Level Grammar

Nouns: Articles: Adjectives: Adverbs: Qualifiers/intensifiers: Pronouns: Verbs: Verb tenses: Passive: Voice: Subjunctive mood: Use of subjunctive: Prepositions Conjunctions Numbers, quantities and time (including use of da quanto tempo) Advanced GCE All the above, plus: Verbs:

Gender Singular & plural Definite, indefinite and partitive Definite article + preposition (al,sul, nel,dal,dell’,etc) Other ways of expressing a partitive (qualche, alcuni/e) Agreement Position Apocopation (buon, bel, san) Comparative and superlative Demonstrative (questo/a, questi/e, quello/a, quelli/e Indefinite (alcuno, nessuno, ogni) Possessive (il mio, la mia) Interrogative ( quale, quanto) Comparative and superlative Interrogative (quando, come, poco) Molto, abbastanza, poco Subject Object Position and order of object pronouns Reflexive Relative (che, cui, il quale, quello che, chi) Disjunctive/emphatic Demonstrative (questo, quello, quello di) Indefinite (qualcuno, ciascuno) Interrogative (chi, di chi, che cosa, quale) Use of ci, ne Regular and irregular forms of verbs, including reflexive verbs Modes of address (tu, Lei) Impersonal verbs Modal verbs Verbs followed by an infinitive (with or without a preposition) Dependent infinitives (far vedere) Perfect infinitive Negative forms Interrogative forms Impersonal constructions (si dice, si crede) Present Perfect (including agreement of past participle) Imperfect Future Conditional Future perfect (R) Conditional perfect Pluperfect Past definite (R) Present and perfect tenses Other tenses (R) Alternative forms to the passive Continuous tenses with stare Imperative Gerund Present and past participle Present Perfect Imperfect Pluperfect As positive and negative imperative for Lei after verbs of wish, request, opinion, emotion To express possibility/impossibility After impersonal expressions (è importante/facile/necessario che…..) In hypothetical clauses after se Future perfect tense Passive voice: all tenses Use of other verbs to express passive (rimanere, venire, andare) Use of andare + gerund Past anterior (ebbi fatto) ( R ) Subjunctive after conjunctions plus all other common uses Prefixes and suffixes: the most common before/after nouns, adjectives and verbs Indirect speech: all forms of indirect speech and rules governing its use.

Topics Covered (may be presented in a different order to that below)

Years 12 & 13.

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

1) Day-to-day Matters

Food / Diet / Health

Transport/ Travel/ Tourism

Current affairs & media

2) Society

Relationships/ Family/ The Generations/ Youth Concerns

Social Issues / Law / Justice

Leisure and the Arts

3) The Working World

Education / Training & Employment

Business & Industry

Information Technology

4) The Environment & Citizenship

Energy / Pollution / The environment

Politics / Citizenship

Campaigning organizations / Charities

5) The International Context

Customs/ traditions / beliefs/ religions

The European Union

World-wide problems

Weekly vocab & verb tests.

Translations from Italian into English and English into Italian.

Students will make presentations and write essays in Italian.

Listening activities will be done in class & at home.

Test Vocab.

Encourage students to read in Italian/ access Italian websites / watch video clips in Italian available on the web.