Initiate interactions with the teacher and peers, using descriptive and expressive language to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community, for example, La mia casa è a due piani; Abito in una fattoria piccola a Merredin, a breve distanza dalla linea ferroviaria che collega Merredin a Perth; Abito in un appartamento a East Fremantle, vicinissimo al fiume Swan ed accanto a un parco grandissimo; La scuola è a trenta minuti in treno; Il weekend vado alla spiaggia o a fare lo shopping al centro commerciale con gli amici; Il macellaio si chiama Signor Moro – è sempre felice!
(ACLITC039)

Participate in guided tasks related to organising displays, planning outings and conducting events such as performances, or activities such as building models and completing transactions in places such as a café or a market
(ACLITC040)

Gather and compare information and supporting details from a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds
(ACLITC043)

Gather and convey information and ideas in different formats from a range of texts related to their personal and social worlds
(ACLITC044)

Share responses to characters, events and ideas in imaginative texts such as stories, dialogues, cartoons, television programs or films and make connections with their own experience and feelings
(ACLITC045)

Create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings
(ACLITC046)

Translate simple texts from Italian to English and vice versa, noticing that there are words, phrases or expressions that require interpretation or explanation as meanings do not always correspond across languages, for example, Vietato entrare!; Ė Vietato calpestare l’erba!

Use visual, print or online dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate short familiar texts
(ACLITC047)

Compare ways of communicating in Australian and Italian-speaking contexts and identify ways in which culture influences language use
(ACLITC049)