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Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region

Build your Italian vocabulary for the home and the town: types of home, places you visit, household items and how to describe them, each shown with its English meaning.

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Home and town in Italian 🏘️

This module builds your Italian vocabulary for where you live: your home, the things in it, and the places around your town. Italian nouns have a gender, shown by the small word in front (il for masculine, la for feminine). Each Italian word here is shown with its English meaning, so you can learn to recognise it.

Home and town words 🔑

Start with four common words. Each Italian word is shown with its English meaning.

At home or in town? ⚖️

It helps to sort the words into things at home and things around town.

Match the word 🔗

  • appartamento
  • centro commerciale
  • duomo
  • congelatore
  • A flat
  • A shopping centre
  • A cathedral
  • A freezer

Which is the cathedral? 🎯

Which Italian word means a cathedral?

  • duomo
  • appartamento
  • congelatore
  • centro commerciale

Describing places 💡

Two useful words describe cost: costoso means expensive, and a buon mercato means inexpensive. And a person who buys something is a cliente, a customer.

Match more words 🔀

  • aspirapolvere
  • casa a schiera
  • abitante
  • cliente
  • A vacuum cleaner
  • A terraced house
  • An inhabitant
  • A customer

Places in town ✅

Which TWO of these Italian words are places in a town? Choose all that apply.

  • centro commerciale
  • duomo
  • congelatore
  • aspirapolvere

Describe where you live 🪜

An interactive activity.

Complete the sentences 🧩

The Italian for a flat is _____. The Italian for a cathedral is _____. The Italian for a shopping centre is _____. The Italian for a freezer is _____. The Italian word meaning expensive is _____.

appartamento duomo centro commerciale congelatore costoso aspirapolvere casa a schiera abitante cliente a buon mercato

Spot the household items 🖍️

An interactive activity.

Cheap or dear? 💶

Which Italian phrase means inexpensive?

  • a buon mercato
  • costoso
  • appartamento
  • duomo

Choose the word 🧭

An interactive activity.

Write about your home ✍️

An interactive activity.