Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe some different types of foods that can be used to make a range of meals in Italy, a worksheet to select and record observations about the appearance and taste of different Italian foods and a vocabulary word bank to identify and describe some special Italian foods.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to identify, taste and evaluate samples of some different Italian foods to explore life in Italy.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how cities and other locations in Italy are physically and politically the same or different from similar places in the United Kingdom. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.