Economics prize and the ice-cream lesson | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: The Nobel Prize in Economics and the ice-cream lesson. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Il Nobel per l’economia e la lezione del gelato
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:36) More stories today
(01:40) Today's headline, slowly
(02:24) The prize announcement
(03:15) Prices and choices
(03:51) Changing prices
(04:32) Today's grammar point
(05:04) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Il Nobel per l’economia e la lezione del gelato
Lunedì, in Svezia, il Nobel per l’economia è andato a Robert Hall e Michael Woodford.
Hall lavora alla Stanford University e Woodford lavora alla Columbia University.
Il premio riconosce studi sui prezzi e sulle decisioni che influenzano l’economia.
Timo Boppart ha usato un menu di gelati per spiegare i prezzi che non cambiano subito.
Un’impresa può mantenere lo stesso prezzo per tutta una stagione.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (è andato)
- verb (lavorare)
- vocabulary (prezzi)
- vocabulary (subito)
- vocabulary (stagione)
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