Beginners - Museo Italiano

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Post-visit activities
Image slideshow – Beginners and Intermediate
Teacher Notes
Teachers can enrich student’s understanding after the visit to Museo Italiano by showing them
images from the Slideshow. The following guided questions links to communication and thinking
as students begin to reinforce identify key messages that are incorporated within the exhibition
Museo Italiano which include:
• Connecting with culture and transporting Italy to Australia
• Maintaining culture, bringing people together and expressing one’s Italianism.
• Acquiring / assimilating and accepting the ‘new’ culture.
• Setting up for the future, establishing professional identity, acquiring of new skills and
matching old skills to needs of Australian society.
• Growing up in a new culture.
The following questions in English can be used for discussion with students of a beginners/
intermediate level of Italian.
Bambini – Children
English:
1. Describe the activities that the children are doing in these images.
2. What were some of the games played in the past?
3. Do children play in the same way today?
Italian:
1. Quali erano i giochi che facevano i bambini nel passato?
2. Trovi che anche oggi i bambini fanno gli stessi giochi?
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Vita quotidiana – Everyday life
English:
Beginners
1. What are some of the things that the Italians did together in their spare time? Reflect on
the things you do with your family. What are the similarities and differences between your
family and the Italian families?
2. In one of the images a woman is making pasta. What are some of the tasks and activities
that are done around your house?
Intermediate
1. Look at the images in this section. What does it tell you about the importance of the Italian
family and the need to be close with other Italians?
2. What does this tell you about the backyard activities of Italian families and their need of
preserving their culture?
3. Imagine that you have migrated to a new country that doesn’t speak English. You cannot
speak the new language. What kinds of problems might you face? For example: At school? In
a shop? With radio/TV? On the train/bus?
Write a letter to a friend and describe your initial experiences in the new country.
Italian:
Intermediate
1. Osserva le foto dei passatempi. Rifletti sul modo di stare insieme della tua famiglia.
In cosa sono simili a quelli degli italiani?
2. C’è una foto di una donna che prepara la pasta. Quali sono i lavori domestici che fai
a casa tua?
Lavoro – Work
English:
Beginners
1. What kind of work do you see the Italians doing in these pictures?
2. What kind of work tools are they using?
Intermediate
1. The contribution made by Italians to Australian society is vast and varied.
Look at the images and describe the types of businesses that Italians set up.
2. Do you think these businesses still exist today?
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3. Research using the internet some of the following industries that Italians contributed
to in Australia:
a. The Italian wine makers
b. The Italian cane cutters of Queensland
c. The Italian market garden communities
d. The Italian tobacco farmers
e. The fishing industry of Western Australia and New South Wales
f. The building industry
g. The hospitality industry
Italian:
1. Osserva le immagini dei diversi lavori e indica il nome della professione in italiano.
Divertimento – Entertainment
English:
1. Look at the images in this section and explain how the Italians celebrated with each other.
2. Do you think today we celebrate or get together with people in the same way?
3. Look at the orchestras in this section and name the musical instruments that were played
during these festivities.
4. Today do we celebrate the same way when we get together with people by playing musical
instruments?
Italian:
1. Osserva le foto di famiglie e amici. Quali sono i divertimenti o i passatempi che vedi?
2. Secondo te, oggi le famiglie passano il tempo libero nello stesso modo?
3. Elenca i passatempi preferiti nella società australiana di oggi.
Sport
English:
Beginners
1. Identify the different sports that Italians in Australia participated in.
2. What are some sports in Australia today that Italians are participating in?
3. Has Australia started participating in any sports introduced to the culture by Italians? If so,
which ones?
Italian:
Intermediate
1. Osserva alcune immagini nel Slideshow e indica quali erano gli sport praticati dagli italiani
in Australia.
2. Questi sport sono gli stessi oggi?
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Make your own digital story
The following are guidelines that students can follow when developing a digital story, or if they
want to further explore the themes/people in the Museo Italiano exhibition. Students who have
migrant parents or grandparents should be encouraged to make a digital story of their family or
even themselves.
Guidelines:
1. Point of the story
2. Dramatic question
3. Emotional content
4. Script development - 300 words for a three minute digital story
5. Storyboards and Images - matching image to text
6. Using voiceovers - Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
7. Choosing a soundtrack to accompany story
8. Pulling it all together using Movie Maker http://www.moviemaker-new.com/au/
A starting point for digital story telling is to observe other digital stories. One location
where students can do this is at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)
http://www.acmi.net.au/ located at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Other digital stories can be viewed online at www.storycentre.org