Music in Florence

Join Irene and Camilla in the beautiful Italian city of Florence.

There’s lots to see! Read also about how the girls spend their days and about their special hobby … playing the piano!

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Claudia Catitti Hi. My name is Claudia and I’m Irene, Camilla and Samuele’s mum. We live in Florence and we really love walking around this beautiful city.

I love telling stories to my children, to my friends' children and to all children.

Creating stories makes me feel like a child, too.

Grammar and structures Present simple/ Superlative continuous adjectives There is/are Verb + ing form Past simple (regular Positive and and irregular verbs) negative imperative Past continuous forms Present perfect Shall for suggestions simple Present and past Future with will and simple passive with going to common verbs Can, Have to (called, born) Two clause sentences with and, but, because, so

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Irene & Camilla

Hi everybody!

Our names are Irene and Camilla. We were born on the same day and we’re almost twelve years old. In this photo we’re sitting on our lovely sofa where we love chatting and watching films! That’s me, Irene, on the left, and Camilla on the right. (Can you tell who’s who? Not everybody can!)

We live in Florence.

Florence In Florence, there are beautiful buildings, churches and works of art. They’re famous all over the world and many artists from the 1400s and 1500s worked here, for example, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi and Raphael. Many famous poets and writers were also born here like Dante Alighieri and Boccaccio.

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Here are some important places in our city.

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The River Arno This river goes through Florence. On 4th November 1966 there was too much water in the river and it covered the streets of the city, entering buildings and houses.

Many works of art got wet and the water even came into our grandma’s house!

Brunelleschi’s Dome You can see this dome on the top of the cathedral in Florence.

Filippo Brunelleschi drew and built it between 1420 and 1436.

At that time, it was the biggest and highest dome in the world.

Here we are in front of Brunelleschi’s statue.

He’s looking at his dome!

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3 Ponte Vecchio ‘Old Bridge’

It’s called ‘Old Bridge’ because it’s the oldest bridge in Florence. There are lots of jewellery shops on the bridge now, but in the past, there were shops that sold meat. They were on the bridge because when the butchers (people who sell meat) were cutting the meat, they threw all the bits they didn’t want into the river below instead of onto the streets. In this way, the city streets didn’t get dirty.

Old Bridge The Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens The Pitti Palace was the home of a rich merchant (a person who buys and sells things) from Florence.

After he died, a rich and very important family called ‘Medici’ bought the palace and made the beautiful Boboli Gardens. These wonderful gardens with their statues and fountains were so beautiful that many kings in Europe wanted gardens like them too.

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The David Statue This is one of the most beautiful and famous statues in the world.

Michelangelo made this perfect statue when he was only 26 years old. It’s made out of one very big piece of marble.

Dante Alighieri Can you see the statue?

It’s the statue of Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce. Dante was a very important poet and he wrote the Divina Commedia.

He’s ‘the father’ of the Italian language and in the Commedia there are lots of words that we still use in Italian now.

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4 We start our day at seven

o’clock with a yummy breakfast: a cup of milk, some biscuits and bread with jam or chocolate.

A sweet breakfast!

Mum gives us fruit as well.

After breakfast, we go to school. We get our school bags ready the night before so we don’t forget anything. We get our clothes ready for the morning too because we don’t wear a uniform at school. We go to Scuola Media*. Instead, our brother Samuele goes to nursery school* and he has to wear a special jacket over his clothes called a grembiule.

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scuola media school for children from 11 to 14 years old nursery school for children from 3 to 5 years old

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5 The centre of Florence is very old and the

streets are not wide, they are really narrow, so it’s nice for walking or riding a bike. Our dad for example, rides his bike to work. We walk to school because we live near it.

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This is our school! It’s the Scuola Media ‘Niccolò Machiavelli’. It’s a very old school and there are lots of students. In every year there are six different classes with more than 20 students each.

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6 We’re in one of the two classes

that study music. We go to school from Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Then two afternoons a week, we stay at school to study piano and orchestra. These are our favourite lessons! Playing with the others is really cool!

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9 Do you know what

happened a few days ago? We had a concert and … the usual things: we were really afraid, we couldn’t eat and we hoped our clothes were tidy enough…

We always go to school two hours before the concert to practise.

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So we get to school but … there’s nobody there! Then the man who looks after the school sees us and says: ‘Hi! Mrs Giannetti said you have to go to the Santissima Annunziata church. They’ve moved the concert there because … ’ 17

10 We start to run. There’s no time to lose.

Piazza Santissima Annunziata is after the Ponte Vecchio. It’s 30 minutes on foot.

We know the way well because our dad works at the Antico Spedale degli Innocenti.

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The Spedale is another building

by Filippo Brunelleschi. In the past, it was a hospital for children without a family.

Today it’s a famous museum and it also has schools for children and teenagers.

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11 We run and arrive at the Pitti Palace: Ponte

Vecchio is near! There it is, but … Oh no, it’s full of tourists! We can’t move! Then … phew!

Anna arrives, our mother’s friend, and she can see we’re worried. We explain the problem and Anna says: ‘Don’t worry! Come with me.’

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We run back to the Pitti Palace and Anna pays for tickets for … the Vasari Corridor! What a great idea! This was a secret passageway built by the Medici family. It’s high above the Ponte Vecchio and goes from the Pitti Palace to Palazzo della Signoria in Piazza della Signoria.

Today the Vasari Corridor is a museum.

We arrive at Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria. Then … we run to the Cathedral and along Via de’ Servi. We can already see the famous entrance of the church, the Santissima Annunziata, where we have to play!

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Activity Pages 1 How much can you remember about Irene and Camilla? Correct the wrong information in the sentences.

1 Irene and Camilla are friends.

2 They’re almost ten years old.

3 The girls are English.

4 Irene and Camilla drink tea at breakfast time.

5 They go to school by bike.

6 They study the drums at school.

7 They live in a modern part of their city.

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2 Florence is famous for a lot of things.

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3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets. are 1 The buildings in Florence _____________ (be) famous all over the world.

2 The River Arno _____________ (go) through Florence.

3 Irene and Camilla _____________ (not wear) a uniform at school.

4 Their dad _____________ (ride) his bike to work every day.

5 The girls sometimes _____________ (have) lunch with their classmates.

6 Dante Alighieri _____________ (be) born in Florence a long time ago.

7 A few days ago, Irene and Camilla _____________ (do) a concert at a church.

8 Their family and friends _____________ (come) to watch them playing at the concert that day.

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1 In 1966, the water from the _____________ Arno covered the streets of the city.

2 The ‘Ponte Vecchio’ is the oldest _____________ in Florence.

3 There’s a _____________ of Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce.

4 The Medici family made the Boboli _____________.

5 Now the Vasari Corridor is a _____________.

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COMPARING CULTURES 5 Think of things in your city or town for Irene and Camilla to visit.

Draw pictures of some of them below and explain what they are.

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6 This is what Irene and Camilla do on Mondays.

What do you do? Compare and complete the diagram.

Irene and Camilla's Monday

Your Monday

breakfast 7.45 a.m. walk to school 8 a.m. to lessons at school 7 a.m.

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lunch at home 3 p.m. to homework / piano 2 p.m.

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7 Can you remember what Irene and Camilla have for breakfast and lunch? Unscramble the letters to find the answers. Then say what you eat for breakfast and lunch.

1 They eat these in the morning.

TICSUBSI _____________ 2 They put this on their bread.

HOCATCOLE _____________ 3 Their mum gives them this for breakfast too.

TRIFU _____________ 4 They have pasta with these for lunch.

METAOOST _____________ 8 Invite Irene and Camilla for lunch.

Write what you are going to eat together.

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