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Do you have a pet?

Text Do you have a pet?

TLF ID M012937

This collection of digital and printable resources introduces the names for most common pets and the functions to describe their size, colour and body, using the core question 'Com'è il tuo/la tua...?'. It focuses on the use of big and small ('grande' and 'piccolo'), basic colours, and expressions to describe fur ('pelo'), feathers ('piume'), scales ('squame') and shell ('guscio'). Translations, solutions and flashcards are also provided. This is section 15 of 36 from Languages online Italian resources, produced by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a highly valuable resource for the Communicating and Understanding strands of the Italian language curriculum for years 2 to 8. It supports learning of qualifying adjectives to describe the colour and size of pets in context.
  • It is also relevant to consolidate the knowledge and application of grammatical gender to simple descriptive texts, in the productive skills speaking and writing, while comparing the two systems of languages.
Year level

2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8

Topics Animals Pets Italian language
Learning area
  • Languages
  • Languages other than English

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: State of Victoria\, Department of Education and Early Childhood Deve
  • Organization: State of Victoria\, Department of Education and Early Childhood Deve
  • URL: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: State of Victoria\, Department of Education and Early Childhood Deve
  • Organization: State of Victoria\, Department of Education and Early Childhood Deve
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Text
  • Image
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © State of Victoria (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) 2007. This material may be downloaded, copied, used and communicated free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided all acknowledgements are retained.