Buon'idea: Time-saving Resources and Ideas for Busy Italian Teachers

by Michelle Williams, Michelle Williams

Buon'idea is an invaluable, time-saving resource that will help you to cover many of the objectives of the Framework for Modern Foreign Languages for Italian. Designed with the non-specialist teacher in mind, Buon'idea provides key Italian vocabulary, word and picture matching cards, activity sheets and puzzle pages for 20 popular topics. Use the suggestions given or develop your own games with these flexible sheets. Italian has never been this easy - just choose your game, copy the sheets and play! Sentence building sheets for each topic provide top tips for extending the vocabulary. Use them and soon your pupils will soon be happily conversing in Italian with confidence. The topics included in this book I numeri, The numbers; I giorni della settimana, The days of the week; I mesi dell'anno, The months of the year; La mia famiglia, My family; I colori, The colours; I miei animali, My pets; In classe, In the classroom; La scuola, School subjects; Buon appetito, Food; Il tempo, The weather; Il corpo, The body; I passatempi, Hobbies; I vestiti, Clothes; In città, In the town; La mia casa, My house; Buon Natale, Happy Christmas; San Valentino, Valentine's Day; Carnevale, Shrove Tuesday; Buona Pasqua, Happy Easter; Halloween, Halloween.

148 pages, Paperback

Published May 23, 2018

About the author

Michelle was born in Cheltenham in 1973, where she has lived all her life - and continues to do so. She had a solid upbringing and was educated at local state schools.

Michelle started working for the NHS when she was twenty years old, two years as a Health Care Assistant and then eight years as a Senior Health Care Assistant for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour in Community Homes.

At the age of thirty - ten years on - Michelle was lucky enough to land the role of Anatomical Pathology Technician at Cheltenham General Hospital. Now - five years on from that - she holds the title of Mortuary Manager at Cheltenham General Hospital.

Michelle studied and successfully sat the Certificate and Diploma exams from the Royal Institute of Public Health in Anatomical Pathology Technology, this allowing Michelle to use the the letters CAPT and DAPT after her name.

The idea for the book came to Michelle about two years ago as she was working in the Mortuary. She mentioned to a colleague that she could write a book about her time as a Mortuary Technician, her colleague - himself a published author - encouraged Michelle to write a few pages and submit them to him.

He liked what he saw and recommended Michelle to a Publisher, who subsequently commissioned Michelle to finish it. Hence the first book was written - and two years later - on sale.