In this lesson you dive into three everyday situations: dinner out, the cinema and grocery shopping, while mastering key vocabulary and grammar at A2 level.
About this lesson
In the fourth lesson of the course, you will dive into three real situations from everyday life in Italy: dinner at a restaurant, a trip to the cinema and grocery shopping. You will learn how to order food and drinks, make and accept invitations, and ask about price and quantity. The grammar includes the present tense of regular verbs of the first, second and third conjugations, the use of definite and indefinite articles, and direct object pronouns. The lesson combines listening, speaking, reading and writing in an authentic Italian context.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
Understand and hold short conversations in a restaurant – ordering, the menu, the bill.
Make and accept or decline invitations to the cinema or to go out.
Name food products and shop, asking about price and quantity.
Conjugate regular verbs correctly in the present tense (first, second and third conjugations).
Use definite and indefinite articles correctly before nouns.
Understand short authentic texts and dialogues on everyday topics.
Lesson vocabulary
la cenaStasera andiamo a cena fuori.
il ristoranteIl ristorante è vicino al cinema.
il menùPosso vedere il menù, per favore?
ordinareCosa ordiniamo stasera?
il contoCameriere, il conto, per favore!
il primo piattoCome primo piatto prendo le tagliatelle.
il secondo piattoPer secondo voglio una bistecca.
il cinemaAndiamo al cinema sabato sera?
il filmChe film danno stasera?
fare la spesaDevo fare la spesa al supermercato.
il supermercatoIl supermercato è aperto fino alle otto.
quanto costa?Quanto costa questo formaggio?
mezzo chiloVorrei mezzo chilo di pomodori.
la bottigliaUna bottiglia di acqua minerale, per favore.