School Activities

School activities in Italian 🏫

This topic is about the **activities** you do at school - lessons, sport, music, trips, homework and exams. In Italian, every noun comes with its **article** (il, lo, la, l'), which tells you its gender. Learn each word **with its article** - the article is part of the word.

Words for school activities 🗂️

Here are six to learn first, each with its article.

What does it mean? 🔤

What does la gita mean?

• A school trip
• Music
• Homework
• A library

Match each word to its English meaning 🔗

The four articles 📝

Italian has four ways to say "the" in the singular, and which one you use depends on the noun. **il** for most masculine nouns (il libro); **lo** for masculine nouns starting with s+consonant, z, gn or ps (lo sport, lo studente); **la** for feminine nouns (la musica); and **l'** before any noun starting with a vowel (l'esame). Get the article right and your Italian sounds natural.

More school words 📚

Four more, including a place and two objects you will need for the next check.

Which are activities? ✅

Select the THREE words that are school ACTIVITIES, not objects.

• lo sport
• la musica
• la gita
• il libro
• la penna

Choose the article 🔠

Choose the correct article: _____ sport, _____ esame, _____ musica, _____ libro.

Where are you? 📍

You go to la biblioteca. What is it?

• The library
• The gym
• The music room
• The exam hall

Order the school day 🪜

An interactive activity.

Putting it together 🧩

Now you can talk about a whole school day. At **school** (la scuola) you sit in a **lesson** (la lezione), you might do **sport** (lo sport) or **music** (la musica), and there may be an **exam** (l'esame). There are also school **trips** (la gita) and the **library** (la biblioteca), and at home there are always the **homework** tasks (i compiti).

Match each article to its rule 🎯

Pick the word 🧭

An interactive activity.

Scrivi! ✍️

An interactive activity.