Register your interest for this new kit

Italian Beginners Listening Kit -   Expressions of interest
 
This Listening kit covers all the BOSTES Syllabus Topics for the Beginners Course. The kit contains 100 listening items with a variety of questions. The outcome, transcript, sample answer and marking criteria is provided for each listening item. In addition audio sound tracks have been recorded by native speakers. A sample question and recording has been provided.

The Kit is suitable for Year 10, Preliminary Continuers, Preliminary and HSC Beginners.


The cost of the kit is $120.00.

Expressions of interest must be received by October 30 2015. Instructions regarding orders will then be distributed.


Please express your interest by clicking on the link:  http://tinyurl.com/listeningkit
 
As you can appreciate the time that it took to produce this kit, it would be appreciated that this resource not be copied and shared but that individual schools purchase their own copy.

Il sito ufficiale dell’anniversario Dante Alighieri http://www.dante750.com/sito/

This year marks the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri in May/June 1265
Among the many activities(87 in Italy and 173 internationally) held during the year to celebrate Dante’s birthday, Italian actor and comedian Roberto Benigni read from the XXIII Canto of The Divine Comedy's Paradiso in the Italian Senate. Benigni, who has hosted live summer readings of the Divine Comedy in Florence’s Piazza Santa Croce for the past few years, said, "The Divine Comedy is a miracle, a work whose beauty takes your breath away. It's not just the high point of Italian literature, but the high point of all literature – consider that, even if it’s more than 700 years old, it's still almost fully understood by everyone." –
 

This week is the 15th edition of La settimana della lingua italiana

The theme is:                       Italiano della musica, musica dell'italiano

Some of the activities  planned to celebrate this international celebration of Italian language are lectures  on Pirandello by Prof Sarah Zappulla Muscara', University of Catania
21 October, 3pm at University of Sydney
22 October  6pm at Istituto Italiano di Cultura 
23 October  3pm screening of La Gazza ladra by Rossini at Istituto di Cultura
24 October  9-5pm Italian teachers' conference at Italian  Embassy in Canberra
29 October  6pm Excellence in 2014 HSC Italian 

These events are by RSVP only as there is limited seating. Please refer to http://www.iicsydney.esteri.it/IIC_Sydney  for further information.

2016  - A celebration of a century of training languages teachers at University of Sydney  
​Save the date Friday 18 March 2016.

PCEM 2015 +1
PoliCulturaExpoMilano 2015+1
World Education - a legacy of the Universal Exposition
Politecnico Milano in conjunction with Expo 2015 held in Milan this year is running an international competition in 2015 and 2016 (+1 year after Milan expo ends) on digital storytelling with the theme from Milan Expo which is about sustainability,
Feeding the planet, energy for life
for more information on Expo 2015 see  http://www.expo2015.org/en

To be part of this competition schools are invited to register for the project and if successful will receive support from the Politecnico in Milan to make their digital story. All completed stories will be made visible online and shared across the world.

if you are interested and would like further information
​please contact Enri Parolin enri.parolin@det.nsw.edu.au

​In this new book about language learning the editors Camilla Bettoni and Bruno di Biase have published some recent research work of linguists.
There are three chapters relating to Italian:
Chapter 3 is a detailed description of the path learners of Italian follow when learning it as a L2,
Chapter 8 discusses the acquisition of content questions and
Chapter 10 follows the first steps of a child with Autistic Spectrum disorder in learning Italian L2.

Also of interest for anyone teaching ESL, there is a chapter on English and there is a chapter for Japanese German, Spanish, Russian and Serbian.  
This book can be downloaded from the link below: 
http://www.eurosla.org/eurosla-monograph-series-2/eurosla-monographs-03/. It is free of charge 

Expressions of interest are invited from interested applicants for a 0.6 FTE Italian teacher position at Glenorie Public School from the commencement of Week 1 Term 1, 2016 until Week 10 Term 2, 2016, with the possibility of extension.

Refer to SchoolBiz Week 1 Term 4 for further information, including school profile and position criteria.

Applications of no more than two A4 pages addressing the three Position Criteria should be forwarded to
lynette.pearce@det.nsw.edu.au by 4:00pm on 6 November 2015.