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Italian Food

Fourth graders learn food and drinks in Italian (cibo e bevande) — pane (bread), pizza, mela (apple), formaggio (cheese), acqua (water), latte (milk), succo (juice), tè (tea). They sort what you eat from what you drink.

Grade 4Food45 minutes1 class periodACTFL / World LanguagesExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Learn Italian food words.
  • ✓Tell food from drink.
  • ✓Sort the menu.
  • ✓Order a snack.
Essential Question

Pizza, mela, acqua… how do you name food and drinks in Italian?

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Vocabulary Terms
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Standards Aligned
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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Food or Drink?

Project this and sort each Italian word into Food (you eat) or Drink (you drink).

🍕 Sort each — something you eat or drink?Try it
🍴 Food (cibo)
🥤 Drink (bevande)
Tap a word, then tap a box.
The Lesson · Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

45 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — Buon appetito!

5 min

How do you name food and drinks in Italian?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show a pizza picture.
  • Ask the Italian word.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Food

10 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Food or Drink?
  • Sort each word.
  • Say pane & acqua.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Repeat.
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Practice — Practice

12 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a food.
  • Name a drink.
  • Say pizza & latte.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name.
  • Name.
  • Say it.
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Speak — Speak

12 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “Vorrei una pizza” (I’d like a pizza).
  • Order a snack.
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Order.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a food.
  • Name a drink.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-Mid).

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand food words.

ACTFL
Communication 1.3

Presentational: name foods.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore Italian food culture.

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: order a snack.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Food cards with pictures.
  • Eat/drink two-column chart.
  • Repeat aloud.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with pizza & acqua.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Use pictures.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add pasta, gelato.
  • Make an Italian menu.
  • Role-play a café.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🍕Food cards
  • 💻Food or Drink?
  • 🍽️Sample menu
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

cibofoodpanebreadpizzapizzamelaappleformaggiocheeseacquawaterlattemilksuccojuice
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
How do you say “bread” in Italian?
Pane.
QUESTION 2
Is acqua a food or a drink?
A drink (water).
QUESTION 3
What food is formaggio?
Cheese.

Reflect: food.

Have students name one Italian food and one drink at home. A printable Italian food sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

🃏 Italian FoodFlip
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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

📝 Italian FoodQuiz
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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Italian FoodPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: acqua, cibo, formaggio, latte, mela, pane, pizza, succo
  1. food
  2. pizza
  3. apple
  4. bread
  5. juice
  6. milk
  7. water
  8. cheese

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. How do you say “bread” in Italian?
  2. Is acqua a food or a drink?
  3. What food is formaggio?
Answer key — Part A: 1) cibo · 2) pizza · 3) mela · 4) pane · 5) succo · 6) latte · 7) acqua · 8) formaggio
Part B: 1) Pane. 2) A drink (water). 3) Cheese.