DOs

DOs

• Leggiamo insieme.

  You can participate to our Reading Group Workshop called "Leggiamo insieme". It will help you to commit and to achieve your goals.

  
  
• Choose what you want to read.
  It is better if it is something you are interested in:
  an article, a magazine, a newspaper, a book, a blog, a post, a food recipe, a travel website, a label of a product... 
  
  
• Read and try to understand the main meaning of the text. If you interrupt too many time you might loose the flow of the story.
  
  
• Write on a notebook the words that are completely new and search their meaning using an Italian dictionary.
  Doing like that, rather then use a translator, you will stimulate your mind to think in Italian.
  
  
• While you read it is important to highlight or note in a notebook the words that are new for you. After the reading time you can link a writing activity using the new words. You can invent and write  some sentences using them.  

DOs

DOs

• One word a day keeps the teacher away!

  Pick a word that will make your day, use it for writing one or more sentences. You can write simple and/or difficult sentences, as long as you write something. 

  E.g.: Torta - oggi ho fatto una torta / la torta alle fragole della nonna e' la migliore di tutte!
  
  
• Write a diary in which you can recount what you have done, what you feel, what are your dreams your thoughts, what you are going to do, etc... Therefore you will practise all the types of tenses.
  
  
• You can listen to a dialogue from a movie, song or audio with subtitles and write it down. You can play it many time till you are quite sure that you wrote everything and then check the script.
  

DON'Ts

DON'Ts

• Do not cover your house of labels with the name of each object. It does not work. Instead say in a room with your Italian book and make a sentence.
  E.g.: Ora accendo la luce del soggiorno.

DOs

DOs

• Also for listening it is important to listen to something in which we are interested. 
  A documentary, a movie, a YouTube video, a Audio-book, a song, a interview, a radio channel, etc...
  
  
• When playing what you are listening, try to stop it and repeat what your hears heard. Only after 2 or 3 times you are allowed to read the subtitles.  
  
  
• If the audio represents something that is physically active, do it! 
  E.g.: A cooking recipe video. If it says "taglia" you will say it aloud and do the action of cutting.
  
  
• When you practice listening you can try to answer to these questions:
  Who is speaking? Who is the main character of the story? What is the audio about? Where and when does it take place? How the events are evolving? Why do the characters are doing or not things?

DOs

DOs

• Look the PDFs that the teacher delivered to you. There is at least one question in it. Repeat the question aloud  till it seems natural and then answer with your words.
  
  
• Participate in workshops and group lessons, they are the best to have a real exchange. 
  
  
• You can watch an interview and anticipate what the interviewed will say. 
  
  
• You can watch a video on mute mode and speak in place of the character while watching the scene.
  
  
• Find a classmate, a friend or a person that is available to spend some time with you practicing speaking regularly.