By Margot Ludbrook, Nives Mercurio and Paola Tralli.

Coriandoli-ascolto consists of a 50-minute CD of 16 original conversations designed for use by teachers and senior students of Italian in Australian schools.

In addition to the CD, the package includes:

• the text of the conversations
• Questions in English
• Questions in Italian
• Written tasks
• Language points
• Links to the texts in Coriandoli-uno and Coriandoli-due

Teachers may copy any of the pages for their students but the CD is copyright.

The CD has been made by native speakers of Italian and are spoken at normal conversation speed.

Nives and Margot, together with Poala Tralli, have created a CD for use with students of Italian in their senior years. An (imaginary) radio program, Coriandoli-ascolto, discusses every week a current issue of interest to young people. The conversations were created from interviews of several Italian people whose input we greatly value. The topics have been chosen from the Australian Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL) and it is hoped that teachers will find them a useful resource. All the materials provided in hard copy are photocopiable.

Discussion topics

1. Primo programma
2. Sport in Italia
3. Internet
4. Ambiente
5. Il fumo
6. Viaggiare in Australia
7. Una vacanza in Australia
8. Energia in Italia
9. Nuove fonti di energia
10. Cibo modificato
11. Il trapianto degli organi
12. Nicholas Green
13. Cellule Staminali
14. Imparare l’inglese
15. Immigrazione in Italia
16. L’Unione Europea