COMPITO   SCADENZA 9 settembre

File name:  your-italian-name.9settembre  (.doc  or  .docx  or  .rtf)

Email subject: compito 9 settembre (nove settembre duemila diciotto)

WRITERS READ SERIES

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 6pm
Christian Picciolini reads from White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out (Hachette Books, 2017)

...Picciolini himself was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged to fight to "protect the white race from extinction." Eventually, at sixteen Picciolini became the leader of an infamous Neo-Nazi skinhead group in one of America's most violent hate organizations before a shocking loss motivated by racial violence changed his life forever, and he realized the full extent of the harm he'd caused....

The reading will be at the Italian American Institute in Manhattan, 43rd St. and 5th Ave.

Let me know if you are interested and we can go as a group.

FOR GRADE      NOT FOR GRADE

Why am I so picky when it comes to apparently insignificant details like a correct email subject, or filename? And why do I take off points for small errors? What does it have to do with learning Italian?

1) If this were a regular course and I saw you space out in class, I would call on you and make sure you are alert and on your toes. In this environment it is impossible, therefore I must use triggers to get you to focus your mind on what you are doing. When you enter the compito environment, accuracy is crucial. The format requirements are the sign posts to remind you.

2) If I didn't apply a penalty for errors, I would spend the rest of the semester dealing with a zillion creative variations.

3) It makes my work more efficient (and yours too). I have a foolproof archival system that relies on those requirements for indexing and sorting.

4) Frankly, how hard is it to follow the instructions in the gray box above?

 DO NOT COPY/PASTE. ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

Write your answer IN BOLD under each respective question.
 

RISPONDETE IN ITALIANO (answer using the Italian names of locations or titles) 

1) What are the two major Italian islands? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
2) Who is Italy's greatest poet/writer and the "Father of the [Italian] Language?" ANSWER IN ITALIAN
3) What is his most famous work? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
4) Italy is divided administratively into how many regions? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
5) What is the largest region (by population)? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
6) What city is its capital? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
7) Mention two world-renowned Italian brands. ANSWER IN ITALIAN
8) Who painted "La Gioconda"? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
9) Where is this painting located? ANSWER IN ITALIAN (yes, in Italian)
10) Who painted the most famous representation of "The Last Supper"? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
11) Where is it located? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
12) What did Guglielmo Marconi invent? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
13) What did Guido d'Arezzo invent? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
14) Which soccer team has won the most national championships (aka "scudetto")? ANSWER IN ITALIAN
15) What city is it from? ANSWER IN ITALIAN

Task 2:    Telephone spelling of your Italian name + last name

From last compito: one of the exercises was to listen to the telephone spelling of names such as Michelangelo.

Use the same method to write your Italian name and last name (in a column, not consecutively).

Task 3:     initalianoweb.com    pagina   A3 CLICK THIS LINK

WRITING:  Esercizio domande (bottom of first box)

1. How do you say "consonant" in Italian?
2. How do you say "vowel" in Italian?
3. How do you say "letter" in Italian?
4. How do you say "spoon" in Italian?
5. How do you say "what is your name" in Italian?
6. How do you say "my name is"?
7. How do you say "I live"?
8. How do you say "I work?"
9. How do you say "I am"?
10. How do you say "to be"?

1. What does "lavorare" mean?
2. What does "andare" mean?
3. What does "stare" mean?
4. What does "come" mean?
5. What does "che cosa" mean?
6. What does "dire" mean?
7. What does "mi chiamo" mean?
8. What does "come si dice" mean?
9. What does "vuol dire" mean?
10. What does "come si scrive" mean?
 

(see instructions for packaging a video in the previous compito)

Do each segment separately. Each segment one take. No background noise (air conditioners, fans etc.). Good lighting and no shaky picture. Some segments require occhi chiusi (closed eyes).

ALL THE SEGMENTS IN ITALIANO

1. occhi chiusi:  alfabeto italiano
2. repeat the list of foods in A2
3. Introduce yourself: "my name is", " I live ...." " I work"
4. Telephone spell your Italian name.
5. Choose 5 simple, small objects. Show each object and ask IN ITALIAN "how do you say xyz  in Italian?" Then, answer.
MODEL (but in Italian): show a pencil and ask "how do you say "pencil" in Italian?  Then the answer.
6. Ask how things are going and answer: well, very well, badly, very badly, so-so.
7. Say that you are feeling well, very well, pretty well, so-so, very badly.
8. OCCHI CHIUSI. Repeat the "espressioni di cortesia" page A3.
9. ASK AND ANSWER IN ITALIAN: what does "andare" mean?
10. What does "ESSERE" mean?

Post the video on youtube. TITLE: your italian name + 9 settembre

COPY THE SHORT URL in this space. (Find "share" and copy the URL from there, not from the browser address box.)