Reimagining Tombola: A Cross-Cultural Experience for Italian Teaching

I have designed a mini-course of Italian as a second/foreign language that I will be holding online in December 2025, based on the Italian game called Tombola. The goal is to: promote Italian language practice by activating multiple competences and activities (Council of Europe, 2020); introduce students to a traditional Neapolitan game, Tombola; have them play — knowingly — the variant of Tombola created by tourism and the bourgeoisie, but in the way in which my family and I play it, that is to say without money, but rather by promoting interpersonal and intercultural exchange instead; talk about tradition, tourism, play, irony and other topics.