38: Quiz! Put your Italian knowledge to the test
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🗓️ 4 February 2018
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Summary
How much can you remember from previous lessons? In this quiz lesson, you’ll review the magic verb “fare” together with some handy grammar, words and phrases you’ve learnt in previous lessons. By the end, you’ll be able to combine them to say loads of new sentences in Italian.
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Today’s words
Facciamo = we do
Colazione = breakfast
Quando = when
Quando facciamo colazione? = When shall we have breakfast?
A che ora = what time
A che ora facciamo colazione? = What time shall we have breakfast?
Adesso/ora = now
Facciamo colazione adesso/ora? Shall we have breakfast now?
Facciamo la spesa = let’s do the food shopping
Non facciamo la spesa ora = let’s not do the food shopping now.
Facciamolo! = Let’s do it!
Facciamola = Let’s do it (for feminine nouns like “la spesa”)
Più = more
Late = tardi
Più tardi = later
Non facciamo la spesa adesso, facciamola più tardi = let’s not do the shopping now, let’s do it later.
Che cosa/che/cosa = what
Che facciamo? = What shall we do?
Che facciamo più tardi? = What shall we do later?
Fai = you do
Che fai più tardi = What are you doing later?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ciao to all |
| 0:12.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:17.6 | And there, Matteo. |
| 0:18.8 | Ciao. |
| 0:19.8 | And today we're going to help you remember and practice using the words and phrases that you've |
| 0:24.9 | learned in previous lessons with the verb that we studied last week, Faire, and importantly, |
| 0:31.6 | show you how you can use them all together to build new sentences in Italian. |
| 0:36.3 | So let's get started. |
| 0:37.4 | Cominciamo. Let's start with the most important word. to build new sentences in Italian. So let's get started. |
| 0:38.3 | Comeinchaum. |
| 0:43.2 | Let's start with the most important word, the most important word of all time. |
| 0:45.9 | Can you remember how to say breakfast? |
| 0:53.5 | And can you remember how to say we do? So how would you say we have breakfast? Or as the Italians say, we do breakfast. |
| 1:04.0 | Facialo co-zion. |
| 1:09.0 | Now all the way back in episode 8, we learned that to make suggestions in Italian, as in shall we have breakfast, is very easy. |
| 1:19.5 | All you have to do is repeat the verb with a question intonation. So instead of saying, we have breakfast, you'd say we have breakfast. |
| 1:29.3 | So, or in Italian we do breakfast. |
| 1:32.3 | So how would you say this in Italian? |
| 1:35.3 | Facchamo colzione? |
| 1:39.3 | Great. |
| 1:40.3 | Now can you remember how to say when in Italian? |
| 1:45.0 | When? |
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