- What can I buy with 1,000 lire? With 2,000? With 10,000?
Draw or cut out objects, foods, and so on, then write the amount next to each item or paste a photocopy of 1,000, 2,000, or 10,000 lire notes. - What can I buy at the newsstand, the dairy, the grocery store, the stationery shop?
Draw the storefront, write the shop's name, and list items or foods below using drawings, cut-out pictures, or words. - Hunt for flowering branches and wildflowers, then arrange them carefully and beautifully in a vase.
- In the kitchen: How do you light the gas? How do you make coffee, tea, sauce, pasta? How do you wash, clean, and dress a salad?
- How do you start and keep a postcard collection? Or collect phone cards, shells, dried flowers, bottle caps?
- How do you keep a diary of a stay or a trip?
Write the date, time, paste in postcards and photos, stickers, note the names of people you met, addresses and phone numbers of new friends. - How do you pack a bag for a trip?
Make a list using words or drawings of everything you need—underwear, pajamas, pants, sweaters, toiletries. - How do you wash small personal clothes?
Socks and underwear with soap or detergent. - How do you set the table for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Make decorations and place cards. - Get to know where you're staying.
Visit the church, monuments, shops, streets, and the surrounding nature—bring a camera! - Learn one or two new songs together—easy, beautiful ones for two voices.
If someone can't sing, give them a simple instrument (you could make one from tin cans and rocks, boxes and sticks) to play at just the right moment. - Organize a game of five-a-side football (or another game), inviting local children and young people, with prizes for the best and the most spirited players.
- With your sister or brother, a cousin or neighbor, or as a group, throw a party and invite people from the area.
Games, a barbecue, sandwiches made by the young people, singing, dancing.
- The Editorial Staff, 1998