ITALIAN CONJUGATION PRACTICE 3 TENSES #1

KS3 ITALIAN GCSE ITALIAN KS4 ITALIAN KS5 ITALIAN A LEVEL ITALIAN CONJUGATION PRACTICE 3 tenses, 4 verb groups, 12 workbooks, 1,800 conjugations, answer keys and verb lists @ 75p each in the bundle ideal for advanced beginner Italian students who are beginning to work with compound sentences and longer texts, and generally developing their knowledge and understanding of conjugation and tense in Italian through to intermediate Italian students who are regularly working with texts featuring a range of tenses, including authentic resources.

The tenses are:

present tense (presente)
perfect tense (passato prossimo)
imperfect tense (imperfetto)

The verb groups are:

**Italian -ARE verbs
Italian -ERE verbs
Italian -IRE verbs
high-frequency Italian verbs

My students really like this kind of grammar activity, as they like to work and learn independently, which is a successful way of varying teaching and learning methodologies - I’ve found it’s really important to avoid predominantly teacher-led learning in the languages classroom.

I use these kinds of workbooks in lots of different ways: for practice during the introduction phase, for independent choice in class time, for home learning, for practice, reinforcing and revision during vacation and at return to class, and for individual activities during cover lessons - I move onto conjugation quite quickly in my language learning programmes, so that students can apply language practically and creatively, which is essential for progressing in language learning, as well as*** consolidating language and grammatical concepts***.

I tend to give my students regular opportunities to practise the conjugations during the whole school year, and they find this really useful for mapping their own progress and developing their overall understanding of how Italian conjugation ‘works’.

The workbooks focus on formation and conjugation, rather than usage, though it’s definitely useful to remind students of a number of things when focusing on or revising tense and verb formation and conjugation. For example, students do often try to conflate what they know about conjugation in their first language, and the language they are learning, and those with English as a first language frequently use avere instead of essere when forming the perfect tense in Italian. Students also need to to have a good grasp of the auxiliary verbs essere and avere in the present tense to ensure that they can form the perfect tense correctly. I like to introduce the***Italian perfect and imperfect tenses*** fairly closely together, because students are then able to compare and contrast both formation and usage of the tenses, which really helps them learn and understand correct forms.

Though the workbooks focus solely on the correct conjugation of verbs, and does not look at word order in the context of full sentences, there are conjugation patterns that students can learn, recognise and apply, ensuring that their spoken and written Italian is accurate, and that their understanding of Italian across the skills of***listening, speaking, reading and writing*** is robust. Students become very familiar and confident the more they work with conjugation, and these quick conjugations certainly help to embed that successfully.

Each set is structured as follows:

Two alphabetical verb reference lists: Italian-English and English-Italian.

Three conjugation challenges, each with 50 individual conjugations:

Conjugation Challenge 1: each verb conjugated in Italian across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding English verb conjugation.

Conjugation Challenge 2: gives the infinitive of each verb in Italian, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in Italian.

Conjugation Challenge 3: students write the corresponding Italian verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from an English prompt.

Notes and Next Steps template which students visit regularly - it really does encourage them to think about where they are now, how confident they feel, and what they might need to work on a little more to be absolutely sure of their conjugation skills. We also note down any new verbs we meet, which enables students to build up their own verb vocabulary bank. It’s a great tool to guide and inform whole-group discussion about learning and progress in general, which is a really successful and popular activity.

answer key: 6-page booklet which is absolutely essential in my view. Answer keys help students develop more independence in their learning, and provide them with an additional opportunity to engage with language and grammar. They also genuinely enjoy correcting their own - and particularly each others’ - work.

Try this Italian conjugation workbook sampler to see if it’s the kind of learning activity that will work well for your students - it’s free to download here:

ITALIAN CONJUGATION PRACTICE FREE SAMPLER
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/italian-conjugation-practice-sampler-12359601

Currently in my store I have Italian conjugation workbooks for a range of verb groups featuring the following tenses:

present tense (presente)
perfect tense (passato prossimo)
imperfect tense (imperfetto)
future tense (futuro semplice)
conditional tense (condizionale presente)
pluperfect tense (trapassato prossimo)
future perfect tense (futuro anteriore)
conditional perfect tense (condizionale passato)

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