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Australian Curriculum: Languages - Unit Planner
Year Level:1
Band 3&4
Unit:
Reflect
Think
Identità - Chi sono? Chi sei? Chi siamo?
Focus Question: Qual’èla mia storia? Chi è la mia familia? Sono tutte le famiglie uguali?
What is my story? Who is my family? Are all families the same?
Goals
Language Focus
(including content from Communicating
& Understanding strands)
Focusing Questions
(to elicit intercultural understandings)
COMMUNICATING STRAND
Socialising and taking action
2.1 Interact and socialise with teachers and
peers, to exchange personal information,
describe people, places, things and
everyday routines about self school and
home environment.
What is my family like?
Who makes up my family?/Who is in my
family?
Where does my family heritage come from?
When did the family immigrate?
Where did they come from?
What was their status/ (teacher question)
What jobs did your grandparents do?
Look at appearance – what do we look like?
How do we identify with our
heritage/culture? Customs, traditions,
celebrations ways that are still the same and
are different.
What cultural tradition do your family still
maintain? Do you have your own
personalized family traditions.
Key vocabulary
Chi sei? Come ti chiami ? Sono.... e tu?
Lui/lei è....
Cos’è il tuo nome della famiglia - il
cognome.
Questa è... Questo è
Il mio fratello ...... la mia sorella.....
Io ho......
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Compare
Notice
Unit Content
(including Cross Curriculum Priorities
& General Capabilities to be addressed)
 Civics and Citizenship
 Identity
 Communities
English Literacy
Linking English to Italian vocabulary.
E.g. Family/ la famiglia
Nationality/nationalità
Culture/cultura
Language/lingua
Italian/italiano
Australian/australiano
Symbol/simbolo
Dove abiti?
La mia famiglia abita/abitava.....
Explore Italian adjectives describing self
and family (eyes, hair, personality etc)
Celebriamo.........
Mi piace.......
Che lavora fa il tuo padre/nonni/ lal tua
madre/nonna?
Papà lavora come un........
Nonno lavorava come un .........
Expressing and performing identify.
2.10 Describe memberships of a wider
network such as a club, country, language
speaking communities (and being a learner
of Italian)
Key vocabulary
Nome: Mi chiamo...
Cognome: Il mio cognome è....
Nationalità:
Sono nato/nata in.......
La nonna era nata in..........
Il nonno era nato in ........
sono italiana/italiano.
Parlo inglese e italiano.
La mia famiglia è.............. (eg sportiva)
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When is your birth date and when was your
parents/grandparents born.
How is my family different to others?
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Intercultural Understanding:
Recognising culture and developing respect.
“Describe and compare the knowledge,
beliefs and practices of various cultural
groups in relations to a specific time, event or
custom”
UNDERSTANDING STRAND
Systems of Language
2.13 Use key grammatical structures to
form simple sentences and texts.
Grammar
Definite articles
Gender
Singular and Plural
Personal pronouns – io tu lui lei
Adjectives – italiana/italiano,
australiana/australiano ( these adjectives
are written in lower case in Italian)
Possessive adjectives – mio, mia, miei, mie,
tuo, tua,tuoi, tue, sua, suo, suoi, sue,
nostro, nostra, il loro, la loro.
Observing patterns in naming e.g.
Paolo/Paola. Alessandro/Alessandra
Creating simple sentences in the subjectver-object pattern including negation is the
oral and written forms.
Language awareness
2.17 Understand that languages change
with use over time.
Cosa dice nonna quando.........
Cosa dice mamma quando..........
Role of language and culture
2.18 Compare and reflect on different
practices and behaviours and how they are
an important part of everyday
communication.
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- making similarities and differences
between own personal experiences and
people, events and ideas.
Resources
Implementation
Scootle immigration stories
Orrizonti – immigration/families
Youtube
Storybird – photo story book
Comic maker – factual story/imaginative
story.
Languages on line
Arcobaleno – Mangia mangia
Il pappagallo
Giacco e il fagiolo
Scribe
Puppet pals app.
Maestra mary – google search
Pimpampum- google search
Sparklebox – google search
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Assessment
Student presentation
 Oral language – e.g. shield expo,
concept map,
 Written language – e.g. concept
map, close activity,
 Produce a booklet of your family
history
 Ability to express aspects of their
family.
Student Unit Reflection
Who am I and where have we come from?
What makes my family unique?
What are the similarities with all families?
Graphic organizers similarities/differences.
Student Tasks
Draw a picture of your family
Concept map of your family
Listening activity sounds of a ship – youtube.
Scootle immigration stories
Orrizonti – immigration/families
Survey to take home to families
Ecco Nonno. Photo information about nonno.
Create a family tree
Family shield with cognomen and the things
that is particular to your family.
Eraldo familial.
Make a legend with icons and nouns
Writing piece about what the icons mean to
your family.
Make an expo of the shields; share the
information orally in the target language.
Australian coat of arms/Italian coat of arms.
Photos – show and tell of our families.
Make a story book of your family history.
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