What is rosa (pink). Rosa is a ribbon hanged on the front door to announce a girl’s birth. Rosa is a chick book un romanzo rosa or some gossips on a tabloid cronaca rosa. Rosa is the rose quartz or a learner’s permit il foglio rosa. Rosa is the traditional Italian female name. Rosa is part of the Italian idiom which describes the…
Ascoltare canzoni in classe o a casa come compito, è una delle attività preferite dai miei studenti. La musica aiuta a rilassarti, la canzone con i suoi ritornelli, aiuta a memorizzare nuove parole. Questa è una delle mie canzoni estive italiane preferite, qual è la vostra? Buon ascolto, Antonio Ascoltiamo una canzone che ci ricorda l’estate e pratichiamo la grammatica.…
Now, if you’re in love with Italy and Italian Lifestyle you might have attended to more than one aperitivo in your life, even in Italy. And surely you have been able to identify these 5 particular kinds of attendees which are infesting every aperitif or happy hour in the world. 1.Mr. Know-It-All Are you talking…
How many times have you tried to sing one of the most pupular Italian song Nel Blu dipinto di blu, better known as Volare, cantare? Learn Italian with songs Every time you listen to it, it sounds so fresh and modern, but it is about 60 years old! Domenico Modugno (a singer originally from the region of Apulia) sang for…
2016 marks the sixth year of Cinema Made in Italy, an annual festival of Italian contemporary cinema, organised by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, in collaboration with Ciné Lumière and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London. This year’s edition showcases nine titles selected by film experts Giorgio Gosetti and Adrian Wootton, reflecting the best of Italian production, from…
On the beautiful Adriatic coastline shared by Molise, Abruzzo and Puglia, lies the “La costa dei Trabucchi’: here large wooden platforms rooted to the rocks jut out into the sea. The arms of the trabucco or trabocco hold a narrow fishing net, il traboccetto. A complicated series of winches is used to lower and raise the net, literally catching the fish…
Brace yourselves, winter is coming! Or, we should say, it’s already here. Temperatures dropped so dramatically during last week that Romans are experiencing somenthing very unusual: a real winter! Although the idea of the Colosseum covered in snow might be fascinating for many, people in Rome consider the possibility of a snowfall as a real disaster: at the first sight of…
A pochi giorni dalla scomparsa del famoso regista Ettore Scola, ecco qui una scena del capolavoro “Una giornata particolare” per ricordare uno dei film più belli del cinema italiano. Due grandi attori, Marcello Mastroianni e Sophia Loren s’incontrano e si amano in una straordinaria interpretazione accompagnata dalla radio che raccontava la sfilata di Hitler a Roma. In questo video visitiamo…
This winter festival is unique to Agnone, in alto Molise, which is believed to have originated as a Samnite festival of fire when the torches, or ‘ndocce’ were used during tribal shifts that usually took place at night, as s source of light. Later during Christian times, this tradition of burning torches continued as a festive way for the community…
Un cortometraggio è un film breve, corto in cui il o la regista raccontano una storia in pochi minuti. Oggi usiamo principalmente l’espressione corto, invece di cortometraggio, per indicare un film con una durata minore di 15 minuti. Uso spesso i corti in classe per catturare l’attenzione dei miei studenti e variare le lezioni. In queste storie brevi ci sono…