Watch three news videos or read three news articles on Italy, and summarize each article in one paragraph each. Your final paper should have thus three paragraphs.
Videos:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/
Articles on Italian politics:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news_politics.asp
Articles on religion in Italy:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news_religion.asp
Article on Italian sports:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news_sport.asp
Articles on Italian culture:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news_culture.asp
FINALLY, check out the trailer for a new movie that takes place in Italy during WWII
http://miracleatstanna.movies.go.com/
domenica, settembre 28, 2008
domenica, settembre 14, 2008
Italian I - Language Lab Lezione I
Laboratorio Lezione I - Italian I
Benvenuti al laboratorio!
In today's lesson, you will familiarize yourself with some useful websites. Please answer all the questions on a sheet of paper.
This assignment is worth 10 points.
1. Press play on the video player located below this post. This is a very popular Italian singer, named Eros Ramazzotti. Now go to Radio Dimensione Suona, click on Playlist, and choose an Italian song to listen to (scroll down - there are lots of songs to choose from). Task: Write down the name of the song that you listened to (make sure it's an ITALIAN song, and not Spanish or English).
2. Next head over to Google Earth. Now type "Naples, Italy" into the search bar. Click on "satellite" to get a live satellite image. Zoom in and explore. Can you find Mt. Vesuvio - the volcano that erupted and destroyed Pompeii in 79AD? It is still active, and could actually explode at any time. Task: Is there smoke coming out of Mt. Vesuvius today?
3. Watch this short video on Italians vs. Europeans by Bruno Bozzetto. Task: What are three differences between Italians and Europeans. Do Italians always follow the rules?
4. And just to make you laugh...check out this video entitled "Adamo" by the Italian computer cartoonist Bruno Bozzetto.
5. Task: Write down one of the main headlines, in Italiano of course, from today's edition of La Repubblica.
6. Finally, go to freetranslation.com. Click on Free Translation. Then click on English to Italian. Task: How do you write: "I am the best student in the world. I love Italian." in Italian?
Benvenuti al laboratorio!
In today's lesson, you will familiarize yourself with some useful websites. Please answer all the questions on a sheet of paper.
This assignment is worth 10 points.
1. Press play on the video player located below this post. This is a very popular Italian singer, named Eros Ramazzotti. Now go to Radio Dimensione Suona, click on Playlist, and choose an Italian song to listen to (scroll down - there are lots of songs to choose from). Task: Write down the name of the song that you listened to (make sure it's an ITALIAN song, and not Spanish or English).
2. Next head over to Google Earth. Now type "Naples, Italy" into the search bar. Click on "satellite" to get a live satellite image. Zoom in and explore. Can you find Mt. Vesuvio - the volcano that erupted and destroyed Pompeii in 79AD? It is still active, and could actually explode at any time. Task: Is there smoke coming out of Mt. Vesuvius today?
3. Watch this short video on Italians vs. Europeans by Bruno Bozzetto. Task: What are three differences between Italians and Europeans. Do Italians always follow the rules?
4. And just to make you laugh...check out this video entitled "Adamo" by the Italian computer cartoonist Bruno Bozzetto.
5. Task: Write down one of the main headlines, in Italiano of course, from today's edition of La Repubblica.
6. Finally, go to freetranslation.com. Click on Free Translation. Then click on English to Italian. Task: How do you write: "I am the best student in the world. I love Italian." in Italian?
Bentornati al LAB - ITALIAN II - Galileo
Per favore, rispondete con delle frasi completi:
1. When and where was Galileo born?
2. What is the Inquisition?
3. What did Galileo invent?
4. What did he discover via his invention?
5. Galileo believed, rightly so, that the sun was at the center of the universe (the Copernican Theory). Everyone thought he was crazy. The Catholic church charged him with heresay. What was Galileo's punishment for believing that the sun was at the center of the universe (and it really is at the center of our universe - Galileo was right and the church was wrong!)?
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