Ufficio Scolastico - Consolato Generale d’Italia

Italian Consulate General - Education Department

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ITALIAN

Contact:
edu.londra@esteri.it

Special thanks to:

 Alessandro Dell’Aira from the Education Department of the Italian Consulate in Sao
Paulo – Brasil for providing a complete and categorized guide guide of useful websites
 Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia for the list of websites provided
 Italian teachers Tiziana Del Vecchio, Maria Grazia Pisano, Luca Cantarutti, Michela
Measso, Cecilia Santangeli for their work in producing, collecting and organizing the
teaching resources
 Loredana Pavone from Università di Catania
 Luigia Cuomo for providing the Entry Level Course (Cambridgeshire County Council)
 ITALIAN for ITALIANS (authentic resources)
 ITALIAN for IMMIGRANTS (Italian as a second language)
 ITALIAN as a FOREIGN LANGUAGE
 ITALIAN for schools in the UK

ITALIAN for ITALIANS (authentic resources)

for CHILDREN
 www.bambini.it
Comprehensive categorized directory of websites featuring hundreds of searchable links
 http://provvbo.scuole.bo.it/ele
User-friendly educational software and learning materials from a Local Education
Authority (USP Bologna)
 www.didattica.org
 www.ivana.it
 www.scuoladibase.it
 http://www.softwaredidatticofree.it
 http://www.fabbriscuola.it/hyfabbri/alfabetiere/index.htm
 http://www.fabbriscuola.it/scuola_primaria/Percorsi_interattivi.html
Educational software for children (up to lower secondary)
 http://www.filastrocche.it
Italian nursery rhymes and songs for children
 http://www.logoslibrary.eu
Multilingual library (also audiobooks)
 http://www.logosdictionary.org
Children’s multilingual dictionary
 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/italian/Aisfor.sht ml
English –Italian picture dictionary
 http://www.pdictionary.com/italian/
Internet Picture Dictionary

GAMES FOR CHILDREN

 www.igiochidielio.it
 www.infantiae.org/giocoindex310.asp
 www.lannaronca.it
 www.ufottoleprotto.com

GAMES FOR CHILDREN ON ITALIAN REGIONS

 http://www.markes.it/hymark/carte_mute/files/home.htm
Mute maps
 http://www.romaculta.it/it/roma_per_bambini.html#11
Pictures of Rome for Children

for SECONDARY STUDENTS

 http://www.dienneti.it/software/softeca/scuola_media.htm
 http://www.dienneti.it/software/softeca/scuola_superiore.htm

for ADULTS
 www.ladante.it
 Website of the «Società Dante Alighieri» for the promotion of Italian worldwide
 http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it
Website of the «Accademia della Crusca» for the History of the Italian Language

Dictionaries
 http://www.educational.rai.it/lemma/
 http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_italiano/index.shtml
 http://dizionari.repubblica.it/
 http://www.demauroparavia.it/
 http://parole.alice.it/parole/

Search engines for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV

 http://www.ipse.com/
 http://www.ipse.com/quotit.html
 http://www.ipse.com/tv.html
 http://www.romanoonline.it/news/riviste/riviste.asp
 http://www.segnalidivita.com/motoridiricerca/index.htm
 http://www.segnalidivita.com/radioitaliane/index.htm
 http://www.hlrnet.com/italiano.htm
 http://www.mediatime.net/edicola/periodici.htm

On-line libraries
 http://www.aib.it/aib/lis/opac1.htm
 http://www.liberliber.it/home/index.php
 http://www.ilnarratore.com/
 http://www.segnalidivita.com/la_divina_commedia/index.htm

Tourism, weather forecast, curiosities

 http://www.ilmeteo.it
 http://www.meteo.it
 http://www.attori.com/dizione/Diz00.htm
Italian Phonetics
 http://library.thinkquest.org/28490/data/italiano/index_i.htm
Website on Neorealism

Film trailers, sound tracks, film reviews

 http://www.filmup.leonardo.it
 www.mymovies.it

Recipe videos and TV advertisements

 www.barilla.it
 http://www.cirio.it/index.php?section=ricettario
 ITALIAN for IMMIGRANTS (Italian as a second language)
for CHILDREN
 http://www.ild.rai.it/
Resources for Italian as a second language by RAI Educational

Multilingual presentations and resources from Local Authorities Services for immigrants
 www.centrocome.it
 www.cestim.org/06scuola.htm
 http://www.comune.bologna.it/cdlei/servizi/109:5755
 http://www.italianol2.info/
 http://www.racine.ra.it/casadelleculture/kit_accoglienza/kit- accoglienza.htm

Categorized directories of websites with simplified texts for learning different subjects
 http://www.strarete.it/
 http://www.italianoperlostudio.it/ita/default.asp
 http://venus.unive.it/aliasve/index.php?name=EZCMS&page_i d=298
 http://www.indire.it/eda_2003/biblioteca/ali.php
“ALI per imparare” - Teaching modules

ITALIAN as a FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 http://www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/it/home.jsp
Language skills assessment

COURSES, LESSONS, GRAMMAR, EXERCISES

 http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/pageo ne.html
 http://www.italica.rai.it/lingua/corso.htm
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/index.shtml
 http://web.uvic.ca/hispanital/italian/italian100/vocab/index.htm
 http://www.italicon.it/corsilingua/prindemo/corso/unita07/index. htm
 http://webs.racocatala.cat/llengua/it/index.html
 http://www.puntolingua.it/esercizi_intro_ita.asp
 http://www.impariamo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ngargano/
 http://www.locuta.com/classroom.html
 http://www.marcodelisi.com/testi/insegno.htm
 http://italiano.sismondi.ch
 http://venus.unive.it/italslab/quattropassi/uno.htm
 http://www.scudit.net/mdindice.htm
 http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica
Italian grammar
 http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/italian/italian .htm
Free resources for language teachers and students (State of Victoria Australia)
 www.dueparole.it
A simplified magazine, useful for people who are in the early stages of learning Italian as a
second or foreign language

Directories of useful Websites

 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/resources/italian/students
 http://www.dienneti.it/risorse/italiano/stranieri.htm

For TEACHERS
 http://insegnoitaliano.indire.it/cosa_trovate.php
Teaching resources for Italian institutions abroad on the website of The National
Agency for Schools
 http://venus.unive.it/insegnare_italiano/
Resources from University Ca’ Foscari
 www.initonline.it
Magazine for teachers of Italian as a FL- Edizioni Guerra
http://www.lend.it/rivista
Website of LEND, Association of FL teachers

ITALIAN for schools in the UK

 ITALIAN - ENTRY LEVEL
CD produced by Cambridgeshire County Council as part of a TEACL project (Technology to
Enhance Adult and Community Learning). The project was funded by the Learning and
Skills Council and managed by NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education).
Proprietary software made available free of charge

Resources produced, collected and made available by Italian teachers working for
our Education Department
 CDs for Primary and Secondary schools available on request
 Web link
http://www.conslondra.esteri.it/Consolato_Londra/Menu/I_Servizi/Per_i_cittadini/
Studi/Corsi_di_lingua/Didattica/
Forum for teachers of Italian
 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/teachingitalian/