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TERM/WEEKS: Term 1, YEAR LEVEL: 9 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Languages: Italian.

Weeks 1-2

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding

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Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom: All students have access to a laptop in their class, and they each have a subscription
to the Education Perfect online platform which allows them access to the online quizzes and gives the teacher the option to assign
work. The teacher has an iPad.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Engage in shared 1. Introduce the term focus Introduction:

1.1 activities such as
of “Viaggiare in Italia” Informal  Introduce the focus “Viaggiare in Italia” (Travel in
planning and
managing activities, (Travel in Italy). (formative) Italy); explain the project for the term (planning a
events or experiences, assessment: dream holiday to Italy, including booking flights,
exchanging resources
2. Introduce key
and information, for vocabulary to students, hotels etc.)- tell them why we are studying this topic.
1. Education
example, plan a verbs and nouns
display Perfect- Dash at
specific to the focus. Body:
or performance to beginning of
illustrate their lesson after they  Use EducationPerfect to introduce new vocab. Let Education Perfect:
3. Brainstorm then
memories of aspects of
have done the students work through the activities and play ‘Dash’ (Italian-Unit 05:
their childhood or research locations in
activities. at the end. Describing a Holiday
organise a forum to Italy which the students
raise awareness of
will use for future  Do a quick brainstorm on the board of famous that you have been
issues of interest to 2.Use Kahoot to locations in Italy that they might want to travel to. on).
teenagers activities and their final review and educationperfect.com
(ACLITC078) (ACLITC
project (planning and  Get the students to sit in groups and use Google
079) reinforce some of
“booking” a trip to Italy) the vocabulary Earth (iPad app or website) to find the locations from
from earlier in the the brainstorm and explore them. Ask them to make Website:
lesson. some notes- they will need to describe it to their earth.google.com
groups in Italian.

Conclusion:
 Class to play Kahoot together to review some
vocabulary relevant to the topic. Explain next
Website: Kahoot.com
lesson’s task (designing a postcard) and ask them to
choose their destination before the next class.
WEEK/ West Australian
LESSON
Curriculum
LINKS
Use appropriate
1.2 Italian pronunciation, st
1. Introduce students to
ress and intonation in
sentences, developing
control
of pronunciation of
consonant and vowel
combinations, double
consonants, intonation,
stress and accents 2. Create a ‘Canva’
when speaking and
reading aloud
(ACLITU089)
Exposure to the 3. Demonstrate use of
conditional mood in
formulaic expressions
Further develop
a metalanguage to
discuss and explain
grammatical forms and 4. Give feedback to other
functions
(ACLITU090)
SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
other
OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
(Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
Introduction:
Informal (formative  Outline the plan for the lesson and explain what is
the conditional tense assessment): expected of them by the end of class (production of a
1. Avalanche verb
and various verb postcard)
conjugation game
conjugations to assess what  Play a game of Avalanche on the whiteboard:
(are/ire/ere) they remember, Reinforce verb conjugations they have learnt
what needs to be previously- particularly those related to travel
postcard about a place covered again, and
(especially andare).
for them to
in Italy which they found practise the
in the previous lesson. vocabulary. Body: Education Perfect:
 Use Education Perfect to go through conjugations of Condizionale Presente
01-03 (-are, -ire and -
conditional in the 2. Education verbs using the conditional (il condizionale).
ere verbs)
production of their Perfect: The  Once they have worked through the Education
students will learn educationperfect.com
postcard. Perfect activities, ask them to go to Canva and
through the
activities and create a postcard. They have to produce it as if they Website: canva.com
were writing from the place in Italy, it must be in
students on their work, quizzes in the
demonstrate lesson, and you Italian and use the conditional at least once
can check on their  They need to upload their completed postcards onto Website: Padlet.com
collaborative learning
progress.
skills. the class Padlet and read through other students’
work, leaving feedback and comments.
3. Use Kahoot to
review what the Conclusion: Website: Kahoot.com
students should  Finish the class with a Kahoot game, reviewing some
have learnt in the vocabulary from last lesson and a few simple verbs
last two lessons, using the conditional mood.
look at their scores
to see if anyone is
struggling.
WEEK/ West Australian
LESSON
Curriculum
LINKS
Use appropriate 1. Students will use an
1.3 Italian pronunciation, st
ress and intonation in
sentences, developing
control
of pronunciation of
consonant and vowel
combinations, double
consonants, intonation,
stress and accents 2. Students will use
when speaking and
reading aloud
(ACLITU089)
Engage in shared
activities such as
planning and
managing activities,
events or experiences,
exchanging resources
and information, for
example, plan a
display
or performance to
illustrate their
memories of aspects of
their childhood or
organise a forum to
raise awareness of
issues of interest to
teenagers
(ACLITC078) (ACLITC
079)
SPECIFIC LESSON
OBJECTIVE
Italian website to search
for hotels and choose
where they would like to
stay. This is part of their
overall project.
dialogue and speaking
in the classroom and
practise the vocabulary
and grammar they have
learnt in the previous
lessons.
ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
other
(what & how) EXPERIENCES
(Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
Introduction:
Informal (formative  Outline the plan for the lesson and what they are
assessment): expected to complete by the end.
 Hand out worksheets with vocabulary lists for the
1. Dialogue with Website: initalia.it
students to refer back to when they start the activities.
teacher during
lesson in the target
language- use Body:
 Ask them to sit in groups with computers and bring up
questioning and
initalia.it and change the language to Italian (students
dialogue to assess
students’ who are struggling with the vocab may need to keep the
progression. language as English for this activity.)
 Students need to go through the process of ‘booking’ a
2. Use Plickers to
hotel (without paying!) in a place in Italy of their
assess how
choosing. They can work together in groups but each
students are
feeling about the child needs to submit their own individual work.
topic, vocabulary,  Ask students to take screenshots of their bookings, Website: padlet.com
grammar and making sure that they include details such as dates,
project. Make sure times, room type, hotel name and the location. They
that they need to save them to their devices and upload them
understand why
they are doing onto the class Padlet as a back-up.
these activities.
Conclusion:
 Hand out the Plickers cards to students and ask them
some multiple choice questions to assess their learning
Plickers cards,
(check their vocabulary and grammar skills) Plickers app and iPad.
 Using Plickers again, ask the students to place cards on
the whiteboard showing how confident they are feeling
with the topic, content and project.
 Have a small Q & A with the students to ensure that
they understand, and that they know that you have
heard their concerns and will respond. Use this time to
answer any questions about their final project.