The document summarizes an investigation conducted with a class of Year 8 Italian students to help them better understand the structure of the Italian language. A pre-survey found that most students only had a partial understanding of why they were learning certain grammar concepts. The teacher then led classroom activities where students created a "Sunshine Wheel" and "Spider Map" to visually map out everything that makes up a sentence in Italian and show how different concepts relate. This helped the students feel more in control of the language as they could now see how all the pieces fit together. The teacher plans to continue this approach to strengthen student understanding of language structure.

5. Pre survey. How clear I am about why we have studied and learnt the things we have in our language classes. 0 -----------------------------------------5----------------------------------------10 Not clear sort of clear absolutely clear Results of survey: Total students present: 23 6 4 1 10 1 1 0 Student results 10 9 8 7 6 5 0 -4 Ratings

7. Discussion questions and answers. Why do we use language? (What purpose does language have?) To travel To understand To communicate To talk with people To travel How do we communicate? Talking Writing Gestures Listening Reading Singing What form does language take in all of these? What do we use? Sentences - sentences are made up of words which are put together in a certain way.

8. Construction of Sunshine Wheel Sentences-are made up of words Subject verbs articles prepositions nouns adjectives conjunctions punctuation

10. Sentences Made up of words Subject verbs -are -ere -ire nouns adjectives masculine irregular regular articles ‘ o’ group –has 4 forms- o, a, i, e- Masculine and feminine, singular and plural ‘ e’ group – has 2 forms – e, i. Singular & plural only il l’ definite indefinite i gli le un uno una un’ io tu lui, lei noi voi loro conjunctions e ma feminine singular plural prepositions a con in da punctuation Adjectives usually follow the noun essere avere fare andare lo la l’