Worksheet 02 · A day in town
Catch opening times and last entry in Italian
Answer in brief
Write opening time, closing time, and last entry in separate fields. A museum can stop admitting visitors before it closes, so the final number you hear is not always the closing time.
The museum and its schedule are invented. This written task separates admission from closing; it is not a current visitor listing.
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Your task: Decide whether a late arrival still allows entry. You need paper or a notes file. Try the model before you read the explanation. The answer key applies only to this written model.
Give each time a job
A short visitor announcement can contain several times that sound equally important. If you write only a row of numbers, you may remember them correctly and still make the wrong decision. Prepare four fields: opens, closes, last entry, and closed day. Add a fifth field for the day you intend to visit. The day can cancel all the other information.
In this exercise, the museum is fictional. Treat its schedule as practice text, not as a listing. The useful skill is to attach a time to its label. Dalle nove means ‘from nine’. Alle diciotto means ‘at eighteen hundred’, or six in the evening. Fino alle introduces a limit. None of these forms alone tells you whether it refers to entry or to the building closing.
Original written model · Italian / English
The scene on paper
Il museo è aperto dalle nove alle diciotto, tutti i giorni tranne il lunedì.
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The museum is open from nine to six, every day except Monday.
L'ultimo ingresso è alle diciassette e trenta.
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Last entry is at five thirty.
La biglietteria chiude mezz'ora prima del museo.
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The ticket office closes half an hour before the museum.
Make your decision
- Fill the four schedule fields. Give times in 24-hour form.
- Decide whether the stated schedule permits entry on Tuesday at 17:20, Monday at 10:00, and Tuesday at 17:45.
- Explain why the ticket office sentence agrees with the last-entry sentence.
Open the answer key
- Opening 09:00; closing 18:00; last entry 17:30; closed Monday.
- Tuesday 17:20: yes under this schedule. Monday: no. Tuesday 17:45: no new admission, although the museum has not yet closed.
- Half an hour before 18:00 is 17:30. This checks the two statements against each other.
Separate the visit from admission
L'ultimo ingresso is the last admission. La chiusura is the closing. A visitor admitted at half past five has only half an hour before six in the model. Do not turn that short possible visit into a recommendation. You still need to decide whether it serves your purpose and whether the venue has other rules.
The phrase tranne il lunedì excludes Monday. A common error is to hear tutti i giorni and stop processing. Keep reading or listening until the whole schedule statement ends. A broad claim often comes first and its exception comes later. Draw a line through Monday rather than squeezing the exception into a margin that you may miss.
Use an arrival test
Test the schedule with two arrival cards: Tuesday at 17:20 and Monday at 10:00. For each card, answer two questions. Is the building normally open? Is admission still possible under the stated schedule? Those questions prevent you from using one remembered time as a general yes. Check the day before comparing the clock.
Now make a third card for Tuesday at 17:45. Explain why the answer differs from Tuesday at 17:20 even though both times are before six. This is the main distinction in the worksheet. If you miss it, review the noun before each time. Do not spend the next round practising Italian numbers alone; the problem is how you assigned them.
Now use a video you choose
Find a chosen visitor-information clip that actually mentions hours. Make a schedule only from those statements. In Jibber Jabber, our app, use word lookup in the captions when you meet an unfamiliar schedule label. Check a real venue's current official information separately before you travel.
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Questions and answers
Is diciotto always an evening time?
In a 24-hour schedule, 18:00 is six in the evening. Keep the schedule format consistent in your notes.
Can I arrive at exactly last entry?
The practice text gives a limit, not a real admission guarantee. Confirm the actual venue's policy.
What if a clip gives no last-entry time?
Write ‘not stated’. Do not calculate one from a different museum's rules.
Sources for this entry
The opening hours, Monday exception, and ticket-office limit were written for this exercise. The key compares those stated limits. No real museum schedule was consulted or claimed. Product lookup statements use the official publisher facts, not the model's hours.
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Jibber Jabber. “Catch opening times and last entry in Italian.” Italian Listening Workshop. Updated 9 November 2026. https://italiancomprehensibleinput.com/museum-opening-times/.