Identity card

• Name: Italy• Size: 301.338 km²• Population:

59.131.287 inhabitants• Location: south Europe• Currency: Euro

Italy has a long and beautiful history that is worth studying, but that’s not possible in 15-20 minutes…. So we’re going to show you some gorgeous monuments!!!

Greece temple in Sicily

480 a.C.

Romanic

Coliseum Rome

Arena of VeronaVerona

Goths The gothic DomeMilan

Renascence <Santa Maria

del Fiore> and <il

campanile di Giotto>

Canal Grande and monuments in

Venice

Italy is also famous for its landscapes

The incredible thing is that also a small town like Busto Arsizio has

some important monuments that are

worth seeing !!!

Italian Diet

Ideal meals

Bread, pasta & rice(carbohydrates)

Fruits & vegetables.

Meat & dairy products

Sweets, oil & fats

The Italian diet is based on this pyramid, so it’s often advised for people who

want to lose weight or want to have a balanced diet

Why the pyramid?

• This is the ideal diet because if a person eats in this way, she/he will consume the correct portion of vitamins, carbohydrates, sugar, fats, and so on!

• Obviously this diet should be united with physical exercise!

Breakfast

In Italy we usually have breakfast with a cup of milk, tea, coffee or cappuccino (a typical Italian drink made of milk & coffee) and biscuits or croissant. We are not used to eat eggs, bacon or foods like that.

Usually we have breakfast at home, but a lot Italian people also have it in a

bar.

Lunch time

Lunch is the second most important meal in the Italian diet. Mostly in the past, people used to eat for lunch a plate of pasta or meat/fish with vegetables. Nowadays always more people for time and work reasons eat only a sandwich or a snack.

Usually Italian people have lunch at work or in the school canteen,

sometimes also in bar or in restaurants… Seldom we have lunch

at home!

Dinner

Dinner is the most important meal in the day… We usually eat pasta, meat/fish with

vegetables or pizza. (In base of what we ate for lunch)

Italian people usually have dinner at home with all the family in the

kitchen or in the dining room… For dinner we usually seat at the same table and we speak about what is

happened during the day.

Italian healthy food

• In Italy there are a lot of healthy food such as pasta, pizza, but all depends on the sauce!

• One of the most healthy and popular food is “mozzarella alla caprese”… a tipical dish made by italian mozzarella, fresh italian tomatoes and italian oliven oil (and if you want some fresh leaves of basil)!

Simple, but …Delicious!

Our eating habits

How we eat

• For eating we are used to using a fork, knife, spoon (and a little spoon or fork for the dessert).

Here there is our wide range of cutleries!!!

Where we eat

• In our home we usually eat in the kitchen or in the diving room. Here there are two examples!

Who do we eat with?

In Italy we love to eat while we are sitting with the family or friends all around the same table, but nowadays life has introduced some problems… We have always more appointments and things to do, so we often have to eat a sandwich, while we are walking, or something in a café or in the school canteen.

Food problems

… but nowadays with the globalization and the arrival of new kind of diet new problems, such as obesity, are increasing!

The Mediterranean diet that has always been used in Italy is a balanced diet, so the population doesn’t have big problems

...but there is another basic problem: anorexia! In Italy, even more people are influenced by fashion that promotes models undersize and even more girls and sometimes boys fall in this problem…

EASTEREASTER

EASTER

Easter is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year,

observed at some point between late March and

late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity),

following the cycle of the moon. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus

Easter’s meal: first plate & side dish

The Easter’s meal is a good occasion to have a lunch with the whole family. Like every Italian lunch every Italian family has a first and a second plate, the first plate usually is tortellini cooked in meat or vegetable soup. In some families people eat firstly red radicchio as side dish.

Easter’s meal: second plate

What do you think we usually eat as second plate at Easter?

a) Bull or cow.

b) Donkey or horse.

c) Duck or goose

d) Kid or lamb.

Easter’s meal: second plate

LAMB KID

We usually eat lamb or kid because they are symbols of Jesus Christ.

Easter’s meal: Colomba

After the second plate we usually have a special cake, named Colomba.

What do you think this cake represents?

a) Dove

b) Eagle

c) Monkeybird

d) Sparrow

EASTER’S MEAL: COLOMBAThat’s a dove!

Dove is the symbol of the Holy Spirit!

In fact on Easter morning in Florence is tradition to let fly a dove from the tower bell of the doom.

But there is also another popular sweet that is really particoular…

THE CHOCOLATE EGG

Nowadays is become popular in Italy to give a chocolate egg as a gift to relatives and friends. The peculiarity of this special egg is that inside of the chocolate egg there is a surprise and everybody, above all kids, looks forward to opening the egg to know which surprise is hidden inside it.

ITALIAN FOOD HABITS INQUIRY

TRADITIONAL DIET

Then lunch and dinner are quite similar; there is always pasta at least in one of them.

You have to know that in Italy we usually have two courses.

Pasta or rice (sometimes soup) Meat or fish with vegetables or cheese

Finally we eat fruit.As snack in the morning we drink coffee and in the afternoon we eat sweets or fruit.

A typical italian day starts with a breakfast, usually milk or

cappuccino with biscuits.

EATING HABITS

I think italian eating habits are quite healthy, in fact we

eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and our diet is various.

This means that we have a good proportion among

proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates.

On the other hand we could do better. We don’t exactly follow the meditterean diet because we eat few legumes and fibre; for this reason we should eat brown bread and brown pasta.

MEAL ATMOSPHERE

I’m going to describe one dinner at home. That’s the only meal my parents

and I eat always together.

The atmosphere is quiet and relaxing.

We usually speak about our day, what has gone good and what bad.

But we have the “bad” habit to eat with tv switched on, thus we watch it and

we freely comment what is going on.

FOOD AWARENESS

I’m not really interested in what I eat,

in fact I’m not used to controlling my food.

Maybe because I trust my mother;

she usually goes shopping and I know

she only buys garanteed or brand food.

FOOD CHOICE

Until now I haven’t had any health problems,

therefore I’m quite satisfied of the food I eat.

In fact I try to vary my diet even if I know

that I should eat more fruit and vegetables

because they are rich in vitamins.

Photo journal

Typical day

I’m so tired… yawn…. But I have to wake up

& go to school!

Before the beginning of my routine…. Let’s start my day with breakfast!

So… now I’m ready to go to school!

I’m at school and I’m attending the lessons… At 10.00 and at 12.00 I will have a break and

eat some snacks!

That’s lunch time…. I go to the school canteen to eat

something! (that could sound strange, but my

school canteen has a wide range of foods!)…. I only

have to choose!!!

My school day has just finished… I’m quite

tired…. I’m going back home and before

starting homework I’m going to have a quick

snack.

Now I’m going to train and later I

will do my homework…

My day has almost finished… it’s dinner time

and finally I’m sitting around the table with my family and we’re going to speak about our day and

relax…

Now I’m going to relax (watch TV, read a book, play, etc) and then I’m

going to bed, waiting for another beautiful day!!!

HEALTHY ACTIVITIES

Jogging

Cycling

Fitness

Soccer

Volleyball

And now we show you what young

italian people like to do…

Soccer

Pizza

Listening to music

Mobile

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Realised by:

•Alessia Graziani,•Andrea Papaleo,•Silvia De Marchi.