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From image to practice: activities and classroom applications
Teachers can leverage this picture in a range of active-learning exercises. Role plays where students perform ordering scenes help practice verbs, intonation, and cultural norms. Timed drills — “in 60 seconds, order an espresso and ask for the bill” — simulate café pace. Narrative tasks ask students to create short stories around characters in the image, practicing past tenses (ho ordinato, ho aspettato). Observational tasks — “list all actions you see and sort by transitive/intransitive verbs” — deepen grammatical awareness. Importantly, pairing the image with authentic audio (a real barista’s call of “Un caffè!”) bridges illustrated practice with lived input.
