On the 15 th, 16th and 17th November days , some activities were studied and a quiz about Italy was given in Türkkonut Emel Önal Primary School in Turkiye. 30 students, aged 10 , participated the different activities consisting to learn some informations about our partner country Italy in English lesson. Each of students worked with their partners. At the end of all activities, they filled out the quiz.
Our first activity was about the location of Italy. We started our work by answering this question: Where is Italy in the world? Students found the location of Italy on the earth. They were surprised that Italy is a boot -shaped peninsula.
Students completed the map worksheet. They coloured the map and read about the location of Italy.
As a second activity, students learned about Italian flag .They coloured the flag worksheet with red -white and green to make an Italy flag.
We also talked about the meaning of the colours of Italy flag. Red part of flag means the blood in the independence war like Turkish flag. Our students realised that we have similarities between the meaning of colours of flags. Both , Turkish flag and Italian flag, have same meaning in the red colour.
How to say some Italian words? They learned "Hello","Thank you", "Good morning " and "Good evening" in Italian. Students greeted their partners in Italian words. It was very fun.
Another activity was to learn an Italian song. The song is a traditional child song" Giro giro tondo". They learned easily with its English meaning.
Giro giro tondo--------turn turn around
Casca il mondo--------The world is falling down
Casca la terra--------The earth is falling down
Tutti giu per terra-------Everybody's sitting down
On second day, some students cooked sphagetti at home and brought to the classroom. Before tasting, we talked about Italian food that they know and they coloured the pizza and sphagetti worksheets.
They tasted the sphagetti together as a classroom activity. We disscused about how to cook sphagetti and how its shape is.
Students learned about the Roman Colosseum and the leaning tower of Pisa .They answered the questions:How does it look like?Where is it?
They tried to make a model of colosseum and the leaning tower of Pisa from sugar. Then, they learned the capital , population , religion and famous musician of Italy.
On third day, students took the quiz about Italy.
All 8th,7th, 6th , 5th and 4th grade students and all school staffs were informed and showed photos about Italy and our partner school in Italy by the powerpoint presentations.
Aslı Altan Altundal, English Teacher of Türkkonut Emel Önal Primary School/Turkiye
