Seniors Italian

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

mercoledì, 24 giugno 2009

Il Carattere - tratti negativi

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Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Il Carattere - tratti positivi

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Extra phrases from today's class:

bello/a = beautiful

carino/a = cute

brutto/a = ugly

Here are the answers to the homework sentences which you had to finish off last week:

1. Hi, my name is Giulia and I'm 17 years old.
2. I live in Turin in Italy and I'm Italian.
3. My birthday is the 27th of April.
4. I live in England, but I'm French.
5. Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
6. Today is Thursday, the 5th of June.
7. My name is Pilar and I'm Spanish.
8. I'm not English, I'm Irish!
9. Hello Doctor, how are you?
10. I'm not very well today.
11. It's Sunday the 8th of July and I'm very well!
12. Hello, my name is Walter. I'm German but I live in the United States.
13. There are 31 days in the month of January.
14. Paris is the capital of France.
15. I'm Welsh and I live in Cardiff.

lunedì, 22 giugno 2009

We started Monday's lesson by revising introductions:

Le presentazioni

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We then started to talk about physical description:

La descrizione fisica

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We also added the following vocabulary to our notes:

Ho i capelli lunghi.
Ho i capelli corti.
Ho i capelli di lunghezza media.

Ho i capelli lisci.
Ho i capelli ondulati.
Ho i capelli ricci.
Ho i capelli rasati.

Sono alto/a.
Sono molto alto/a.
Sono altissimo/a.
Sono basso/a.
Sono di statura media. (can also say - Sono di altezza media.)

Sono magro/a.
Sono snello/a.
Sono grasso/a.
Sono grosso/a.