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    Cultural Engagement labs

    CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABS

    Spring 2021

    Sant’Anna Institute has developed a variety of Cultural Engagement Labs that allow students to learn about and interact with the Italian lifestyle in a virtual setting. Students are invited to practice different elements of the culture, based on the topic of each lab, for a better understanding and appreciation of Italian mentality, traditions, food, history, language, and more!

    Please contact us if you would like to organize any of those for your class!

     

    1. Il dolce far niente– the Slow Pace of Life

    Recorded or live

    Explaining the Italian life-style, through an active dialogue with students.

     

    1. The bar(cafè) and the coffee culture

    Recorded

    • What’s a bar? When and why Italians go to the bar? ?
    • The coffee, different types of coffee ?
    • Virtual tour of a coffee factory
    • Practicing Italian common phrases to use at the bar

     

    1. The Italian food

    Recorded

    Cooking class: the tiramisù

     

    1. The Italian fashion culture: “la bella figura” making a goodi mpression

    Recorded or live

    • What’s “formal” for an Italian?
    • How to behave in Italy on a workplace or informal situations? ?
    • Why is fashion so important? The importance of dressing properly (focus on the Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni)

     

    1. I gesti- Italian gestures

    Recorded or live

    • Activity: matching gestures with it smeaning
    • The history of Italian gestures, practicing gestures

     

    1. Feste e tradizioni – holidays and traditions

    Recorded

    Typical Italian festivities [the history of Sant’Antonino in Sorrento]

     

    1. Un po’ di fonetica – A little bit of phonetics

    Recorded or Live

    • Italian most famous words ?
    • Pronouncing Italian vowels
    • Italian common phrases mispronounced by Americans

     

    1. Italy vs US

    Recorded

    Double interview:  Emily (US Internship Coordinator at Sant’Anna) and Giorgia (Italian Student Life Coordinator at Sant’Anna)

     

    1. Stereotypes

    Recorded or live

    Which are the most common stereotypes about Italians? Activity: true or false quiz- using Kahoot

     

    1. Italy and myths

    Recorded

    Stories from Sorrento Peninsula

     

    1. Sorrento Virtual Tour

    Recorded or live

    Discovering Sorrento with Giorgia