Class #5 Update–Carlsbad & Escondido

Salve studenti!

Read on for…

• A recap of class #5
• Outside-of-class assignments/activities
• Important announcements

Buona giornata. Ci vediamo martedi/mercoledi prossimo! (Have a good day. See you next Tuesday/Wednesday, depending on your class location.)

Jodina

What we studied/practiced:

1. Special Italian words & sounds: We did the exercises on p.2 of last week’s Cinema Paradiso dialog (Ch. 18, Alfredo Ritorna), focusing on words that are similar in English and Italian and the sounds ‘gn’, ‘gl’, ‘hard/ soft C and G’.
2. Further work on Shopping in Italy: Review of Clothing, Colors, Numbers (Vestiti, Colori, Numeri)
3. New phrases/questions for shopping: (1) Che cosa e`/sono? (2) Che colore e`/sono? (3) Quanto costa/costono? (4) Ti piace/piaciono? Si, mi piace/piacono. No, non mi piace/piacono.
4. We did a fun activity using clothing catalogs to practice the shopping vocabulary and phrases in #2 and #3.
   
5. “50 Ways to Accelerate Your Learning Curve!” We had a round-table sharing of student brainstorm ideas resulting from the question/challenge I posed several weeks ago: “How can you incorporate more Italian language and culture into your daily life?”

Outside-of-Class-Activities: (Aka Homework, except fun!!!)

1. Re-read “50 Ways to Accelerate Your Learning Curve!” Choose and try one or two ideas that you haven’t tried yet. Be ready to report on your activities in class next week. (Stickers!!! ;-))
2. Study/Review what we covered in class this week.
   

Announcements:

• **NOTE:**  NEXT WEEK’S CLASS (Nov. 17/18) WILL BE IN OUR REGULAR LOCATION. The hands-on cooking tutorial will instead take place during our last class of the series (Dec. 8/9). Details upcoming!
• Make up missed classes:   If you are unable to attend class in your regular location, you are more than welcome to catch the class at the other location (There are two: Carlsbad and Escondido). For addresses, see the “Contact” page.