Why Italy
What topics can I use? Italian culture?
I'm trying to make a list of topics about Italian culture to use with my class each day. I want to choose a topic for each class so that Italian culture is included every day. I made a list of things I want to include, and am looking for imput on other important cultural/historical topics (these could inclue historical figures or events, contemporary cultural pieces- specifically things that teenagers would be interested in). Here is my list so far: fashion, cars, music, English words in Italian language, Italian words in English language, Carnevale, Easter, Christmas, Palio, the Vatican, Rome, Venice, Florence, all regions of Italy, school in Italy, bars/caffe', immigration, Colosseum, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Spanish steps, Duomo, Italian food, cinema, pesce d'aprile, wars, unification, euro, jobs, soccer, religion. Kind of a random list, but any help would be appreciated! I want to think of things that the students would enjoy learning about!
Public Comments
- The Italian people was a nation of immigrants. Italian cinema. Sofia Loren. The differences between north and south. Michelangelo. Ferrari cars. the dialects.
- The Italian Greyhound Tips And Facts you Must Know before discussing Italian culture .
- I m italian. very interesting -pizza -icecream -tiramisu ... where do u teach? I teach french in italy and it s very importan according to me to find words which can appeal pupils..according to their age.. like food and beverage u know.anyway if u want we can write by mail bye and ciao gianni italy
- our flag: il "tricolore" Il primo tricolore italiano nasce il 7 gennaio 1797 a Reggio nell'Emilia come bandiera della Repubblica Cispadana proposto da Giuseppe Compagnoni. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia#Tricolore_italiano UNESCO World Heritage Sites * Main Article List of UNESCO Sites in Italy * Rock Drawings in Valcamonica — 1979 * Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci — 1980 * Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls; transboundary property, shared with the Holy See — 1980,1990 * Historic Centre of Florence — 1982 * Piazza del Duomo, Pisa — 1987, 2007 * Venice and its lagoon — 1987 * Historic Centre of San Gimignano — 1990 * The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera — 1993 * City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto — 1994, 1996 * Crespi d'Adda — 1995 * Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta — 1995, 1999 * Historic Centre of Naples — 1995 * Historic Centre of Siena — 1995 * Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari) — 1994 * Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna — 1996 * Historic Centre of the City of Pienza — 1996 * The Trulli of Alberobello — 1996 * 18th Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex — 1997 * Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily — 1997 * Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata — 1997 * Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico di Padova), Padua — 1997 * Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena — 1997 * Amalfi Coast — 1997 * Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and their Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) — 1997 * Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (Turin and its province) — 1997 * Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia — 1997 * Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily — 1997 * Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia — 1998 * Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archæological sites of Pæstum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula — 1998 * Historic Centre of Urbino — 1998 * Villa Adriana (Tivoli) — 1999 * Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and other Franciscan Sites — 2000 * City of Verona — 2000 * Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands), Sicily — 2000 * Villa d'Este, Tivoli — 2001 * Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (Eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello in Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli) — 2002 * Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy — 2003 * Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia — 2004 * Val d'Orcia — 2004 * Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily — 2005 * Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli — 2006 * Raetian Railway (shared with Switzerland) — 2008 * Mantua and Sabbioneta — 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Europe#Italy_.2843.29
- It's Ok, but I would add, for example fashion, food & drink, and any other topics they would like to face. Ask them in advance, then you can create your word list or discussion.
