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TO CELEBRATE Celebrare / Festeggiare
Let's celebrate Christmas at mine! Festeggiamo/celebriamo il Natale da me!
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***OUR DECEMBER EVENTS***
- Monday 9th December at 4pm (UK time) / Conversation for Intermediate students. A session of 45 minutes to improve your speaking skills.
- Tuesday 10th December at 4.30pm (UK time) / Dictation practice. An hour session practising your writing and spelling skills.
- Friday 13th December at 4.30pm (UK time) / Workshop "Il Pampepato": the story of the traditional Christmas cake from Umbria, with a demonstration in real time from Terni. Reading practice, questions and answers and free PDF recipe of the ancient tradition for all partecipants.
| | The PAMPEPATO from Terni, Umbria.
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| READING GROUP / GRUPPO LETTURA | | | Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostruire e quando non si sa nemmeno dove gettare le fondamenta. Ma c'è un momento preciso, quando ci buttiamo nel mondo, in cui siamo esposti e nudi, e il mondo non ci deve ferire. Per questo Lucia, che una notte di trent'anni fa si è salvata per un caso, adesso scruta con spavento il silenzio di sua figlia. Quella notte al Dente del Lupo c'erano tutti. I pastori dell'Appennino, i proprietari del campeggio, i cacciatori, i carabinieri. Tutti, tranne tre ragazze che non c'erano piú.
VINCITORE PREMIO STREGA GIOVANI 2024 VINCITORE LXXVIII PREMIO STREGA 2024
Discussion on Tuesday 14th January at 4.30pm
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| | | | DID YOU KNOW? The medieval village of Greccio is one of Italy's most beautiful yet lesser-known villages. Perched on the hillside of the Rieti province, approximately 80km north of Rome, a row of rustic stone houses crawls along the edge of the hill, peering down onto the expanse of the valley below. For most of the year, Greccio's 1,500 inhabitants live a peaceful agricultural life surrounded by a beech and oak forest where wild boar roam. However, for a few weeks during December, the village swells to welcome visitors from all over the world. this is where St Francis staged the world's very first nativity scene in a cave in the year 1223 as a way to spread the story of Christmas. Each year, more than 100,000 pilgrims and tourists flock here from Italy and abroad to marvel at the spectacular nativity scenes displayed all around town as part of the holiday celebrations, from miniature works nestled into the brickworks of walls to larger displays found in front of hotels and guesthouses. |
| | New Year's Eve in Italy? All the squares (piazze) will be open with events and concerts to welcome 2025. You can choose to spend it in Turin in Piazza Castello, one of the most elegant places in Italy, or in Rome and celebrate in Piazza Venezia, after a walk around the Colosseum. If you head to Bologna, Piazza Maggiore will surprise you. In the centre of Italy you could choose Florence and its Piazza Michelangelo and Piazza della Signoria, or maybe Siena and its famous Piazza del Campo. If you prefer the South, Napoli and Piazza del Plebiscito will be an explosion of colours (un'esplosione di colori) and in Sicily, try the splendid Catania and its Piazza Duomo.
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SOME USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
- Buon Natale / Merry Christmas
- Buon anno / Happy new year
- Buon viaggio / Safe journey
- Buone vacanze / Happy holidays
- Take care / Abbi cura di te
- Ci vediamo stasera/ See you tonight
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GRAMMAR IN A NUTSHELL
There are 21 tenses in the Italian language and all of them are commonly and currently used. Italian verbs are divided into three patterns of conjugation, according to the ending of the infinitive form: -ARE / -ERE / -IRE. This month we introduce the present tense, used to describe actions or events that are happening right now or in the future.
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