Programma di Lingua e Civiltà Inglese
Anno scolastico 2013/14 Classe III E A Docente: Prof.ssa Emma Pompei
Dal libro di testo in adozione M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, Layton “Performer FCE Tutor” Workbook con e-book ZANICHELLI
Unit 1“New epic heroes”
Reading: “Teens too can be heroes!”
Grammar: present simple and present continuous, dynamic and stative verbs, present perfect, been and gone
Vocabulary:adjectives ending in –ing and –ed, phrasal verbs (TAKE), suffixes
Unit 2 “Jobs”
Reading: “My first Part-Time Job”
Grammar: past simple, past continuous and past perfect, used to e would, be used to e get used to
Vocabulary: expression for the workplace, phrasal verbs riferiti al posto di lavoro, suffixes, easily confused words: the workplace, word formation.
Unit 3 “Free Time”
Reading: “Teen Hobbies”
Grammar: present perfect and past simple, present perfect continuous and expressing duration, for e since, articles
Vocabulary: word formation (compound words)
Unit 4 “Learning”
Reading: “Child prodigies”
Grammar: Future tenses, the future with time clauses
Vocabulary: word formation, expressions for learning and confused words
Unit 5 “Lifestyle”
Reading: “Can we be allergic to food?”
Grammar: Modals of obligation and necessity and modals of ability and possibility, countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers, confusing countable and uncountable nouns
Vocabulary: word formation (negative prefixes), expressions to do with health
Sono state eseguiti esercizi sul lessico e la grammatica con l’ausilio del libro di testo in possesso degli studenti:
Bonomi,Barili Pesenti , Furness “ Your New Grammar Matters” EUROPASS, Bonomi, Furness, Ciabarri, Seldon “English Pass” EUROPASS e fotocopie fornite dall’insegnante.
Dal libro di testo in adozione M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, Layton “Performer Culture and Literature From theOrigin to the Eighteenth Century” ZANICHELLI
THE BIRTH OF THE NATION
Meet the Celts
Roman Britain
The Anglo-Saxon,
“Beowulf”:a national epic.
“Beowulf and Grendel: the fight”: text analysis
The Norman Invasion
The Doomsday Book
DEVELOPING SOCIETY
A war of succession
King John and the Magna Carta
The medieval ballad: features. “Lord Randal” (fotocopia fornita dall’insegnante): text analysis
A modern ballad: “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” by Bob Dylan (fotocopia fornita dall’insegnante): text analysis
Comparison between the two ballads
The Birth of Parliament
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: the premise of “The Canterbury Tales”, the pilgrimage, Chaucer’s language. “The Wife of Bath” (text analysis), The Miller (text analysis), General Prologue: “When in April” (text analysis)
The Black Death: a great human tragedy
The Wars of the Roses
A CULTURAL AWAKENING
Meet the Tudors : Henry VII, Henry VIII,Mary I, Elizabeth I
The English Renaissance
The Sonnet
Comparing literatures The English and the Italian Sonnet: the structure.
An Elizabethan sonnet:“My Mistress’ Eyes” by W. Shakespeare, text analysis
King by divine right: the Stuart line
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: ENGLAND’ S GENIUS
William Shakespeare’s life
The structure of theatres
The audiences
The world of drama:
Opening scenes in Shakespeare’s plays:
“Romeo and Juliet”: the plot, the themes.
The prologue (text analysis)
“Macbeth”: the plot, the themes.
The three witches (text analysis)
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