Vanessa Zavanella Margonari

First lesson

• Teaching the main basics of Italian to enable the child to better understand games and readings

Second lesson

• A good talk to understand what the child likes and allow him to express himself, speaking in Italian, of course!

Third, Fourth, Fifth lesson

• Reading of stories in Italian, and then, as needed, translated into English or French (Little Red Riding Hood/Snow-white/Hansel and Gretel/Rumpelstiltskin/Cinderella/Rapunzel). If children are between four and seven years old, we can read very simple stories with dinosaurs explaining numbers, colors, animals, and clothes.

• AND/OR talking, inventing stories together

• AND/OR watching cartoons and reading comics of Pimpa, explaining words in English or French if needed. Pimpa is a very cute white dog with red dots who is very popular among Italian children, invented by Francesco Tullio Altan. Her stories are full of kindness, sweetness and fun

• AND/OR playing games to remember Italian words. They can be movement games such as "full sack empty sack" (the child has to stand up or down if the sack is called full or empty), touching face parts with the requested hand, "Strega comanda color" (the child will show me something of the color I ask for), or playing together educational games on the Devoto Oli Junior website

• AND/OR singing and learning some simple children-friendly italian songs.

First lesson

• Alphabet (Alfabeto)

• Articles (Articoli)

Second lesson

• Masculin and feminin (Maschile e femminile)

• Singular and plural (Singolare e plurale)

Third lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Present indicative of the verb to be (Indicativo presente del verbo "essere")

Fourth lesson

• Explanation of the modes and tenses of Italian verbs

• Present indicative of the verb to have (Indicativo presente del verbo "avere")

Fifth lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Adjectives (aggettivi)

Sixth lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Pronouns (pronomi)

Seventh lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Simple and articulate prepositions (Preposizioni semplici e articolate)

Eighth lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Use of "ci" and "ne"

Nineth lesson

• Review of previous lessons, further questions and eventual clarifications

• Adverbs (avverbi)

Tenth lesson

• Big game to see what you learned during the course and further needed explanations or questions

First lesson

• Greetings (saluti)

• Introducing yourself (fare le presentazioni)

Second lesson

• Nations and nationalities (nazioni e nazionalità), say where you are from and ask where others are from

Third lesson

• Numbers (numeri)

• Tell the time (dire l'ora)

Fourth lesson

• Talking about colours (i colori)

• A must: talking about the weather (parlare del tempo)

Fifth lesson

• Talking about your family (la famiglia)

• Talking about pets (animali domestici)

Sixth lesson

• Talking about the house (la casa)

• Talking about clothes (i vestiti)

Seventh lesson

• Talking about jobs (il lavoro)

• Talking about emotions (le emozioni)

Eighth lesson

• Talking about sports (gli sport)

• Hobbies (at the student's discretion: we can talk about music, painting, doing math...)

Nineth lessonB

• Being polite (essere gentile)

• Being less polite... (essere meno gentile), at the student's discretion

Tenth lesson

• Big talk about everything you learnt so far!