Teaching Italian - any suggestions

[withgreatpower]

A friend has asked me to teach Italian (my mothertongue) to her 10-year-old daughter. Her DD has actually asked this, as she loves Italy. I have never taught Italian before (although I am fluent in it, of course). I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions on how to structure the "lessons".

The lessons will be 30 minutes long, will focus on speaking and listening, must be fun and engaging, but not a waste of the girl's time!

I was thinking I could use my two DC (8 and 10), and we can all sing and mime children's songs in Italian, and play games in Italian. I have quite a few Italian CDs, but I wouldn't know what kind of games to play with the aim of learning Italian. I guess role playing would also be good (using plastic fruit, tea cups, etc.)? Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

I would probably get a text book to give you some structure. Then you can develop your own activities to pad out the textbook, and extend and develop the activities given. Text books aimed at theat age group will be quite structured. There is a big foreign language bookshop in London you can get stuff off. Google grant and cutler at foyles. Good luck.

Thank you, twonker! Good suggestion. I have just ordered a book from Amazon.

Good luck, I'm sure you will have lots of fun inventing your own activities, and it will be more fun if you rope your own kids into it.

Hi. Not sure if this will help but I have noticed the National curriculum covers the same topics for French, German and Spanish for KS2.
If you find the topics it may help your planning. Off the top of my head they included greetings, festivals, days of week, months, colours, body parts and alot more. You will find these on tes

Thank you morethanpotatoprints! I'll have a look.