Sophie And The Italian Magician

With two great stories in each book, learning Italian is fun with the Italian magician In the first story, the Italian magician asks everyone to clap and say three times various Italian words as he makes a coin vanish and some animals appear. In the second story, it's Sophie's birthday party and the Italian magician makes teddies of various colours appear, as everyone claps and says three times some colours in Italian.

The Italian vocabulary in this book includes:

• Essential words: Ciao / Mi chiamo / Come stai? / Molto bene / Grazie
• Numbers: uno / due / tre
• Animals: un coniglio / un uccello / un cane
• Colours: rosso / arancione / giallo / verde / blu / viola / rosa
• Food: caramelle

The author of this book is a qualified teacher, with 20 years experience in teaching languages to children. This story is ideal for children aged 3 - 7 but it may also interest children of other ages. At the back of the book there are two pages that may be photocopied for class or home use:

• Useful Italian words and phrases - To help learn some Italian words you could create a poster by copying some of the words and pictures.
• A short song that could be sung or made into a rap - how many different versions can you create using the lyrics?

Also available by the same author are the following books:

• Young Cool Kids Learn Italian
• Cool Kids Speak Italian (books 1, 2 & 3)
• First 100 Words In Italian Coloring Book Cool Kids Speak Italian
• Italian Word Games Cool Kids Speak Italian