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  • A1.1: Greetings and Farewells
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The presentations
    • Grammar - Personal pronouns
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.2: Telling your name
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Welcome to the city!
    • Grammar - The Italian alphabet
    • Grammar - The pronunciation
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.3: Where are you from?
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - How many Italians are there?
    • Grammar - Italian articles: Il, Lo, La, I, Gli, Le
    • Grammar - Gender and number of nouns
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.4: Numbers and counting
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Two kilos of apples, please!
    • Grammar - Cardinal numbers
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.5: Family
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - How is your family?
    • Grammar - Possessive adjectives
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.6: Saying your age
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The birthday party
    • Grammar - The interrogatives: "Quando?", "Quanto?"
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.7: Professions and studies
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - What job do you do?
    • Grammar - The interrogatives: "Quale?", "Dove?", "Perché?"
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.8: Address and contact details
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The passport
    • Grammar - Present tense of regular verbs
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.9: Days of the week and parts of the day
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The short working week
    • Grammar - Prepositions: indicating times of day
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.10: The weather
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The weather
    • Grammar - The articulated prepositions
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.11: Ordinal numbers
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The bell tower of St Mark's
    • Grammar - Ordinal numbers
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.12: Seasons, months and parts of the year
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - What is your favourite season?
    • Grammar - Stare per + infinito
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.13: Telling the time and reading the clock
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Waiting for the bus
    • Grammar - How to say the time?
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.14: Calendar dates and holidays
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The December holidays
    • Grammar - How is the date formed?
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.15: Daily food
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The Mediterranean diet
    • Grammar - Conjunctions
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.16: Daily routines
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The daily routine
    • Grammar - Reflexive verbs
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.17: Cooking and baking
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Eggs with tomato
    • Grammar - Qualifying adjectives
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.18: Asking things
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Open questions and closed questions
    • Grammar - Questions
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.19: Prices and money
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - At the Porta Romana market
    • Grammar - Indefinites: 'molto', 'tanto', 'poco', etc...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.20: Grocery shopping
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The shopping list
    • Grammar - Imperative - tu: Prendi, Va', Fai, ...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.21: At the clothing shop
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The sales in Padua
    • Grammar - Modal verbs: 'Potere', 'Dovere', 'Volere'
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.22: Body parts
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Do you have back pain?
    • Grammar - The plural of nouns
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.23: Physical appearance
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Appearance, style and beauty
    • Grammar - Agreement of adjectives
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.24: Colours
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - How to match colours
    • Grammar - Use of “piacere”
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.25: Emotions and feelings
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - A stressful day at work
    • Grammar - The passato prossimo with essere
    • Grammar - The present perfect with avere
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.26: Senses and perceiving
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Discovering flavours with the senses
    • Grammar - Comparative adjectives: "Più + aggettivo + di," ...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.27: Shapes and forms
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The trulli of Alberobello
    • Grammar - Demonstrative adjectives: questo, quello
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.28: Character and personality
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Angela's new job
    • Grammar - The relative superlative: il più, il meno, i più, ...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.29: Physical states and sensations
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Rest is important
    • Grammar - Past participles as adjectives
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.30: Sickness and pain
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The flu
    • Grammar - Adverbs of manner
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.31: Our house
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The house
    • Grammar - The use of 'c'è' and 'ci sono'
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.32: Furniture
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Furnishing the new house
    • Grammar - “Ci” vs “ce”
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.33: Tableware
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Setting the table
    • Grammar - Adverbs of place: qui, qua, lì, là,...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.34: Household appliances
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Appliances and consumption
    • Grammar - Adverbs ending in -mente
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.35: Housing and accommodation
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Choosing a flat to rent
    • Grammar - Connectors: 'allora', 'quindi', 'perché', 'anche'
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.36: Houseplants and garden plants
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Tips for a perfect garden
    • Grammar - Stare + gerund
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.37: Your pets
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - How to take care of animals
    • Grammar - Go to 'Andare a' + infinitive
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.38: Everyday services
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - A morning full of errands
    • Grammar - Negation: 'Non', 'No', 'Neanche', 'Nemmeno'
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.39: Ordering food and dining out
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Sunday lunch at the restaurant
    • Grammar - The polite form: vorrei
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.40: Sports and exercise
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - What sport do you do?
    • Grammar - Adverbs of frequency: sempre, spesso, mai
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.41: Describing hobbies
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - How to spend free time
    • Grammar - Adverbs of time: dopo, prima, poi, etc...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.42: Transportation
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - What is multimodality?
    • Grammar - Place expressions: andare in, andare a, per, da, etc.
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.43: Asking for and giving directions
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - Getting lost in a new city
    • Grammar - Place expressions: a destra, vicino a, ...
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.44: Friday night out
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - La Scala in the city
    • Grammar - The passive voice with essere + participio
    • Exercises
    • Speak
  • A1.45: Music and art
    • Vocabulary
    • Activity - The Uffizi
    • Grammar - Indirect speech: “dire che”
    • Exercises
    • Speak
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A1.17 - Cooking and baking
A1.17 - Cooking and baking
A1.17 - Cooking and baking

A1.17 - Cooking and baking - Speak

Cucinare e fare dolci

  • Student worksheet

Esercizio: Conversation exercise

  1. Spiega ogni passaggio per preparare le frittelle. (Explain each step of baking pancakes. )

Teaching guidelines +/- 10 minutes

Teacher instructions

  • Read the example phrases out loud.
  • Answer the questions about the image.
  • Students can also prepare this exercise as a written text for the next class.
A1.17 - Cooking and baking
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