Italian Film in the Primary Classroom Suitable Years R – 8 ($30)

This handbook provides some suggestions for ways of using un-subtitled Italian film to stimulate linguistic and imaginative responses in students.
Each unit contains:

  • notes for the teacher with suggested ways of using the film
  • some basic vocabulary relevant to the film
  • a copiable worksheet of written language activities, based on the vocabulary of the film
  • short plays based on the film for the students to perform in class
  • some useful websites

  

Level Title Length Topic, Language area


Years 1-3

 

Years 4-5

 

Years 6-8


Jack e la pianta di fagioli
Il soldato di piombo
Pinocchio

Il topolino di campagna
Cenerentola
Dumbo

Il re leone
Only You (in English)
A Gondola on the Murray


11 mins
10 mins
84 mins

10 mins
10 mins
74 mins

88 mins
102 mins
46 mins


domestic animals, plants and numbers
toys and animals
parts of the body, animals

food, animals, homes, likes/dislikes
family, numbers, time, celebrations, clothes
animals, circus, weather

family, animals in the wild, the environment
travel, ordering food, buying things
cooking, foods, celebrations


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