Italian · For teachers
Every Italian printable, chapter by chapter
The whole Italian curriculum in one place, mapped to its 10 chapters and 331 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How Italian worksIntroduction
The gentlest of the major languages to start, and the work sits in two verbs. Here is what is easy, what is not, and why.
Ciao both ways with friends; Buongiorno, Buonasera and Arrivederci with everyone else; and Buonanotte only when you part.
Grazie and prego, per favore when you ask for something, scusa or scusi when you slip, and non capisco when you are lost.
Mi chiamo Anna, piacere! And the one real choice: come stai to a friend, come sta to a stranger.
Italian spelling is a faithful servant of sound. Learn the hard and soft c, the double consonants, and the two accents, and you can say any word you can read.
- Words 1-10Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 1-10
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
Seven definite articles where English has one, and the awkward-looking half is not grammar at all. Say il zio out loud and you will hear why lo exists.
Lo and la shorten to l' before a vowel, the next word decides, and the indefinites follow the same sound rule: un, uno, una, un'.
Italian keeps the article where English drops it, drops it before one relative with mio, and fuses it with a, da, di, in and su.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
Irregular everywhere, and the two you will say most. Learn the two tables, and the handful of places where Italian says have and English says be.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
Drop -are, -ere or -ire and add the ending that says who. The regular majority conjugates on sight: io parlo, tu parli, noi parliamo.
Many -ire verbs slip -isc- in before the ending: capisco, capisci, capisce, capiscono. Noi and voi go without it.
Fare, andare and dire break the pattern because you say them constantly, and potere, volere and dovere take a plain infinitive.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
- Read: Lo zio NinoGraded-reader story
Uncle Nino does everything and knows everything, and is somehow in two places at once. Every word in it is one you have already drilled.
- The number house: da zero a noveVocabulary
10 words · Zero to nine in one sitting, the digits every phone number, price and time is built from. Watch sei: six here, but also the sei of tu sei, you are.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house two: the teensVocabulary
10 words · Dieci to diciannove. Up to sedici the unit comes first (undici, dodici); from diciassette the ten comes first, so seventeen is dici-assette.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Number house three: the tens and centoVocabulary
12 words · Venti to novanta and cento, plus the compounds that break the pattern: ventuno and ventotto drop a vowel, ventitré gains an accent.
Zero to ten as words of their own, then the teens, which flip at seventeen: sedici is six-ten, diciassette is ten-seven.
Glue the unit onto the ten, drop the vowel before uno and otto, put an accent on a final tre, and say your age with avere.
Cento and mille with no word for a, duemila, un milione di, primo to decimo, and dates with the plain number except il primo.
- E, ma, oThemed review
The connectives that hold Italian sentences together, sorted by what they actually do rather than by the three English words a dictionary offers for each.
- The other uncleConversation
Eight lines with Zio Tino, who is not Zio Nino.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets130 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
