family

Italian Factfile 5
family
Learn with television
Talk Italian: Programme 2
Attend a grand summer wedding in the
mountains of northern Tuscany, where
the conversation turns to families and
relationships. Find out about family life in
Italy and attitudes to children.
Talk Italian is repeated regularly on BBC
Learning Zone (BBC Two). Check out the
details on www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone
and video all the programmes to watch
at your leisure.
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Italian Steps Stage 2: Friends and family
Join Giovanna and her brother Manuel at a local
sagra where they bump into his friend Michela and
her family and an old school friend of Giovanna’s.
Learn how to introduce your family in Italian and
find out about traditional Italian names.
Talk Italian: Introducing … your family
Watch the video clip and notice how talking about
children's ages breaks the ice when families meet.
Do the activities and learn how to talk about your
family and to say whether you’re single, married or
divorced.
Learning hint
Dig out some family photos, the more people in them the better – wedding
groups are ideal. Point to each person and say who they are using Questo/a è
mio/mia ... Even better, get together with someone else who’s learning Italian
and ask about the people in his or her photos by pointing and saying Chi è
questo/a? Then answer that person’s questions about your photos.
Key language
mio marito my husband
Questo è mio ... This is my ... (m)
mia moglie my wife
Questa è mia ... This is my ... (f)
mio padre my father
Ho I have
mia madre my mother
Non ho I don’t have
mio figlio my son
Hai …? Do you have …? (informal)
mia figlia my daughter
Ha …? Do you have …? (formal)
figli children
Quanti anni ha? How old is s/he?
fratelli brothers and sisters
… ha tre anni … is 3 years old
il mio amico my (m) friend/ boyfriend
(Non) sono sposato I’m (not) married
la mia amica my (f) friend/ girlfriend
Quiz
1.
Who are your genitori?
2.
How would you say you have two children?
3.
You’re chatting to someone who tells you Io sono figlia unica. How many brothers and
sisters has she got?
4.
Which, if any, of these means ‘my daughter is 14’? a) mia figlia ha quattro anni; b) mia
figlia ha quindici anni; c) mio figlio ha quattordici anni
5.
How would you introduce a friend called Paul and your sister Anna to each other?
6.
Name three Italian boys’ names ending in –a.
Answers on www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/answers.shtml
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