The educational activities, while respecting the different cognitive styles and the natural stages of learning a language, are mainly based on a humanistic and affective approach and on playful methods. The thread of the course are the funny adventures of five children of different nationalities and their friends.
The listening tracks and dialogues present a correct language model, but as close as possible to the current language.
The wide range of materials and the systematic revision of contents presented in a spiral approach, make Forte! a flexible tool, adaptable to different learning styles and different teaching contexts.
Depending on the children’s age and language proficiency, you can choose to use:
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Piccolo e forte! A and then Piccolo e forte! B before proceeding to Forte! 1
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Piccolo e forte! B before proceeding to Forte! 1
Piccolo e forte! A is ideal for children aged 4-6 who are introduced to Italian for the first time mainly through an oral approach to the language.
Piccolo e forte! B is ideal for children aged 5-7 who start learning Italian through the written language.
The course is completed by:
The
Teacher's Guide, that offers detailed explanations, guidelines and suggestions on how to do the activities and play the games. It also includes useful material to photocopy, maps, images to play memory, tombola and flash-cards (the flash-cards can also be downloaded from the material on the right);
The Teacher’s Guide is available online for free from the section “resources for teachers and schools”.
Below you can watch a video extract from the CD-ROM attached to the book: