As I said in class, in this post I'm going to show you some videos that you can use to practice the function "Asking for and giving directions".
In the first one, you'll find some useful (utili) prepositions.
The second one will show you a practical situation: a guy is asking for an ATM (bancomat) and a Pizza Restaurant! Pay attention to the senteces (frasi) he uses to ask for directions and the way people answer him!
And the last video is the one some of my students created a year ago... there are some mistakes (errori)... Let's see if you are able to spot (individuare) them!
According to popular belief (credenza popolare), today's "Blue Monday", the most depressing day of the year!!!! 😲
Blue Monday falls (cade) on the third Monday in January when you are apparently most likely (con molta probabilità) to find yourself cold, poor, miserable and fantasising about a week in the sun...
The phrase Blue Monday was actually coined (coniata) in 2005, as part (come parte) of an ad campaign for Sky Travel, which claimed (ha affermato) to have calculated the date using an equation!
There's also a song entitled "Blue Monday", but actually I found it... a little bit depressing! 😁
Keep calm and wait because they start singing after a while (dopo un po')!
What do you think about it? Did you like it? 😅 But above all (soprattutto) what do think of Blue Monday? Is it real? Did you feel particulary sad today? According to you, why did they choose this particular time of the year?
And just to stay in theme (per rimanere in tema) below you can find 10 different words you can use to say sad in English!
Hi guys! Another rule we will find in the unit we're studying is related to (si riferisce a) SOME, ANY and NO compounds (composti).I'm sure "everybody" has read or listened them in songs or other kind of texts, but, just to be sure, let's revise (rivediamo) the indefinite some, any and no first.
We form the compounds by adding -one, -body, -thing, -where to some, any and no as you can see in the picture below!
We use them exactly as their "parents" some, any and no
There is someone (qualcuno) here > positive
I won't tell your secret to anyone (nessuno) > negative
Is there anything (qualcosa) to eat? > question
Nobody (nessuno) was at home when I called > negative meaning with positive verb
It's very easy!
You could also find interesting taking a look at this video! Enjoy it!
Anyway (comunque), don't worry... we'll see them together in class!
