Year 8

We shall be using the course book Tutti Insieme.

Term 1

• Introductions and greetings
• ASSESSMENT – speaking – general conversation (greetings, alphabet, numbers)

Term 2

• Talking about school and giving opinions
• Telling the time
• ASSESSMENT – listening and reading – school timetable, lessons, opinions

Term 3

• Talking about yourself, friends and family
• Personal description and describing friends and family
• ASSESSMENT – writing – writing a letter to someone about someone else (celebrity)

Term 4

• Talking about hobbies and healthy living
• Talking about where you go, what you do at the weekend and giving opinions
• ASSESSMENT – reading – reading about someone’s hobbies, what they do, when and give their opinions.

Term 5

• Describing your home
• Rooms in the house
• ASSESSMENT – listening to someone talking about their house, what they like and dislike and what their ideal house would be like.

Term 6

• Talking about food and drink
• Ordering food and drink and asking how much something costs
• Quantities
• END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT

Year 9

We shall be using the course book Tutti Insieme 2.

Term 1 - Holidays

• Being able to talk about your holidays including your opinion and using the past tense
• ASSESSMENT – speaking – general conversation about past, present and future holidays

Term 2 - Healthy living

• Recognising body parts and ailments
• Saying which sports and hobbies you do
• ASSESSMENT – listening, writing and reading – listening to people talk about their ailments and giving advice. Writing about what they do to keep in shape and reading a letter about someone’s hobbies (including a range of tenses).

Term 3 - Clothing

• Describing your clothing
• Including colours and opinions
• ASSESSMENT – writing about what you wear for different occassions

Term 4 - Social arrangements

• Asking for and giving directions
• Food and drink
• ASSESSMENT – listening to people in town and in restaurants

Term 5 - TV and Cinema

• Being able to use the 24 hour clock
• Looking at different types of television programmes/films and giving your opinions on them
• ASSESSMENT – writing about what films you like and dislike and being able to describe a film which you have recently watched

Term 6 - Project work

• Watching and studying an Italian film La Vita è Bella
• END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT