This is a 5 lesson Italian unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children numbers, how to say their age, colours, how to describe their eyes and hair and how to describe their height and size. The lessons are highly interactive and allow children to practise a range of language skills.

Lesson 1 - Numbers 1-10

This lesson teaches children numbers up to 10.

The lesson plan gives details of a whole class starter game, how to teach the ‘numbers’ vocabulary, a paired game, a reading game, written activity and plenary activity.

All the resources needed for the lesson are in the zip file. These are:

  • 4 page PDF Lesson Plan
  • 23 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open.)
  • 4 PDF pages of resources for the reading game (Colour and Black & White sheets)
  • 5 PDF pages for the written activity (Colour and Black & White sheets and an answer sheet)

Lesson 2 - How old are you?

This lesson teaches children to talk about how old they are.

The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘ages’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking activity, written activity and plenary.

All resources needed for the lesson are in the zip file. These are:

  • 5 page PDF Lesson Plan
  • A 20 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
  • 2 PDF pages of resources for speaking activity
  • 6 PDF pages for the written activity (Colour and Black & White worksheets and answers)

Lesson 3 - Colours

This lesson teaches children the vocabulary for eight different colours in Italian.

The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘colours’ vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a game, reading activity and plenary game.

All resources needed for the lesson are in the zip file. These are:

  • 4 page PDF Lesson Plan
  • A 12 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
  • 2 PDF pages of resources for the game
  • 2 PDF pages for the written activity (a worksheet and answers)

Lesson 4 - What do I look like?

This lesson teaches children the vocabulary for describing eyes and hair in Italian.

The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the eyes and hair vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a game, written activity and plenary.

All resources needed for the lesson are in the zip file. These are:

  • 5 page PDF Lesson Plan
  • A 14 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
  • 1 PDF page for the speaking activity
  • 1 PDF page for the Written activity

Lesson 5 - Describing Myself

This lesson teaches children the vocabulary for describing their height and size in Italian.

The plan gives details of a whole class starter, how to teach the descriptive vocabulary, a whole class speaking and listening activity, a group sorting activity, reading activity and plenary.

All resources needed for the lesson are in the zip file. These are:

  • 5 PDF page Lesson Plan
  • A 7 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
  • 12 PDF pages of resources for the speaking activity (colour and black & white versions)
  • 8 PDF pages of resources for the sorting activity (colour and black & white versions)
  • 5 PDF pages for the written activity (colour and black & white versions and answers)

No further preparation needed.

This is unit 2 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
This unit could be combined with the ‘greetings and introductions’ unit (unit 1), also created by ‘Blossoming Minds.’:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/beginner-italian-greetings-and-introductions-bundle-12397072

You might be interested in Units 1 and 2 together:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12518073

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