Body parts 2Verb avere (to have)

Let’s start by playing a vocabulary game on learn-Italian.net. You should play the games in the Body topic called Body – hair colour and styles.

Here is the link.

https://www.learn-italian.net/italiantopics

Have fun!

Now click on the link below to watch a video. Can you recognize any of the words you just learned? Which ones?

Come siamo belli! (Forte! 2 unità 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8p85RYkmI

Now read the BP worksheet 1, then watch the video again as many times as you need and complete it.

Time for worksheet 2. Read the statements in ex. 3 and decide if each statement is true or false. Watch the video again if you need.

Glossary:Ha= he/she hasPiccolo= smallGrande= bigLungo=long

In this first worksheet you read and watch a story about some children talking about an old doll. You found out that:

1. La bambola ha gli occhi grandi.

2. La bambola non ha il naso lungo.

3. La bambola ha la bocca grande e il naso piccolo.

4. La bambola non ha i capelli rossi, ha i capelli neri.

The word ha is the first person singular of the verb avere (to have)

The verb Avere is an irregular verb, that is it does not follow the rules most verbs follow. As you already know, Italian verbs need to be conjugated, as they have a different form for each person. Here is the conjugation of the verb Avere:

Avere

Io ho

Tu hai

Lui/lei ha

Noi abbiamo

Voi avete

Loro hanno

To have

I have

You have

He/she has

We have

You have (plural)

They have

Io ho i capelli lunghi

I have long hair

Noi abbiamo i capelli corti

We have short hair

Voi avete la bocca piccola

You have (plural) a small mouth

What if you don’t have something?

In this case, you just add the word non right before the verb.

Io non ho i capelli lunghi, ho i capellicorti.

I don’t have long hair, I have short hair

For more examples and the pronunciation please watch the video at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LerkcC-2FdY&t=315s

And now let’s practise. Complete worksheet 3, 4 and 5

For more practice you can play some language games following this link:

http://www.baby-flash.com/wordpress/italiano/abbina-persone-al-verbo-avere/

http://www.edilingua.it/it-it/immagini/Game/index.html

Remember! When you are unsure of the pronunciation or the meaning of a word you can always search google translate or one of these online dictionaries:https://www.collinsdictionary.com/it/dizionario/inglese-italiano

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/it/dizionario/inglese-italiano/