ITALIAN II – CHECKLIST

Highly Proficient / Good understanding but need work / Do not understand
Say the days of the week
Say the months of the year
Count from 1 - 100
Work with numbers from 100 – 10,000
Use common greetings and salutations
Express the expressions There is/There are
Conjugate the verbs ESSERE and AVERE
Express time
Express name
Express where you are from
Express age and date of birth
Express likes and dislikes
Form simple questions (use interrogative words)
Express hobbies and activities
Describe hair and eyes
Describe physical and character traits of people
Identify simple colors
Identify basic school vocabulary
Understand the concept of gender and number with nouns
Use definite and indefinite articles properly.
Understand the difference between adjectives in – o and adjectives in – e.
Identify at least 20 –ARE verbs (vocabulary)
Identify at least 20 –ERE/IRE verbs (vocabulary)
Conjugate regular verbs in the present tense.
Differentiate between 1st, 2nd, 3rd person/ Singular and plural when working with verbs.
Speak with adverbs of time (sempre, qualchevolta, spesso, mai…)
Conjugate common IRREGULAR VERBS (avere, essere, andare, uscire, fare, venire…)
Conjugate helping verbs (potere, dovere, volere, sapere)
Locate major Cities of Italy on a map.
Begin to recognize words and phrases in authentic Italian songs and film.
Understand short readings and be able to summarize them.
Non Esiste la Perfezione, Glianimali da preda, Claudia e I ladri,
Il miglioreamicodell’uomo,
Express weather conditions and identify the 4 seasons
Highly Proficient / Good understanding but need work / Do not understand
Talk about my family and relatives.
Identify common foods and express likes and dislikes of certain meals.
Order a simple meal in Italian.
Say what meals I’m eating, the times I eat them and what I prefer to eat at those meals.
Describe the eating habits of Italians and compare them to my own culture.
Describe my school schedule describing classes, teachers, friends and things I do at school.
Express feelings of hunger, thirst, exhaustion using idiomatic expressions.
Use possessive adjectives in Italian (my, your, etc…)
Recognize vowel sounds in Italian
Make soft and hard c and g sounds in Italian
Make gli, gn sounds in Italian
Describe the main characters from the FOTOROMANZO videos
Ask and answer questions about them.
Identify prepositions and compound prepositions and use them to basic degree of proficiency.