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giovedì 10 maggio 2018

Italian class


It all starts with a coffee!
 It's not a joke: every Italian class (for adults) starts at eight in the morning and the students take turn to make the coffe for the others. It's a ritual that gives us the possibility to use everyday language.
"Do you want a coffee?"
"Sugar?" "Yes, please/ No, thanks."
"How many spoons?"...
We meet twice a week, the lessons are customized and adapted to the needs of the students. They are alpine guides, so we talk a lot about mountains and equipment.
They do study grammar as well, but the main goal is to communicate, so they have homework once a week.
After every lesson students received on viber the recording of the new words and the new expressions they have learnt in the morning.
Learning a new language can be difficoult, expecially if you do not have time to study: but everyone has to move around the city, has to do houseworks...and  all those activities can be done listening!
If you listen to what you have learnt during the lesson it's so easy to memorize everything!
We often play game together, playing offers the occasion to talk, and in this class the only language spoken is Italian!
So... students are going to learn even if they do not want!