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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO

a.s 2018/2019 Docente: Boretti Lisa Materia d'insegnamento: Lingua e cultura straniera inglese Classe: 4A scienze umane Testi in adozione: Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton, Compact Performer Culture and Literature, ed.

Zanichelli; Brook-Hart, Complete First for Schools Student’s Book, Cambridge University Press; Thomas, Complete First Workbook, Cambridge University Press; Andreolli, Linwood, Grammar Reference, ed. Petrini. Literature 1 The Renaissance History and Culture The Tudors James I Guys Fawkes and Bonfire Night An expanding world Literature and Genres The English Renaissance The sonnet Woman, lady, mistress The world of drama The structure of theatres Authors and Texts

William Shakespeare: England’s genius

My Mistress’ Eyes Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy Romeo and Juliet: the tragedy of not knowing (Two households; The ball, The balcony scene)

Macbeth: the tragedy of ambition (The three witches; Duncan’s murder; Macbeth’s last monologue) The Tempest: the comedy of forgiveness (The Tempest; Prospero and Caliban; Prospero renounces his magic powers) A Midsummer Night's Dream 2 The Puritan Age Charles I and the Civil War The Puritans

Authors and Texts

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Satan’s speech) 3 The Restoration and the Augustan Age History and Culture The scientific revolution (New scientific methods; The Royal society) The Restoration of the monarchy (Charles II) From the Glorious Revolution to Queen Anne The early Hanoverians (George I and George II) The birth of political parties A golden age Literature and genres Restoration poetry and prose The means for cultural debate The rise of the novel Authors and texts Daniel Defoe and the realistic novel; Robinson Crusoe (The journal, Man Friday)

Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel; Gulliver’s Travels (Gulliver and the Lilliputians)

Alexander Pope; The Rape of the Lock (Belinda’s Toilet) The Arts

William Hogarth’s satire and social criticism Cultural Issues Tourists, travellers and movers: About movers, Salman Rushdie

4 The Romantic Age History and Culture An age of revolutions Industrial society The American War of Independence The Napoleonic Wars Literature and genres A new sensibility Early Romantic poetry The Gothic novel Romantic poetry Authors and Texts William Blake and the victims of industrialisation (London, The Lamb, The Tyger) The Gothic novel; Mary Shelley and a new interest in science: Frankenstein (The creation of the monster) William Wordsworth and nature (Daffodils) Complete First

Unit 8 Dream of the stars Reading and Use of English: Four young actors; YouTube millionaire celebrities Vocabulary: verb collocations with ambition, career, experience and job; play, performance and acting; audience, (the) public and spectators; scene and stage

Grammar: future continuous and future perfect; at, in and on in phrases expressing location; reported speech Writing: an essay Unit 9 Secrets of the mind Reading and Use of English: Happiness or Harvard? Vocabulary: achieve, carry out and devote; stay, spend and pass; make, cause and have Grammar: modal verbs to express certainty and possibility Writing: a story Unit 10 On the money Reading and Use of English: Online shopping? No thanks! My greatest influence Vocabulary: arrive, get and reach; phrasal verbs: come up with, pull in, etc. Grammar: as and like, modals expressing ability Writing: a review Unit 11 Medical matters Reading and Use of English: What would you like to do? Vocabulary: idiomatic expressions: taken aback, etc.; health vocabulary: illness, infection, etc. Grammar: relative pronouns and relative clauses Writing: an essay Unit 12 Animal kingdom Reading and Use of English: My sister’s circus; Surviving an animal attack Vocabulary: avoid, prevent and protect; check, control, keep an eye on and supervise; negative prefixes. Grammar: third conditional and mixed conditionals; wish, if only and hope Writing: a letter or email Unit 13 House space Reading and Use of English: My new home in Venice, 1733; Living on a houseboat Vocabulary: space, place, room, area, location and square Grammar: causative have and get; expressing obligation and permission Writing: an article Unit 14 Fiesta! Reading and Use of English: The world’s highest festival?, My local festival Vocabulary: vocabulary for festivals: celebrate, commemorate, etc.; suffixes to form personal nouns. Grammar: the passive. Writing: an essay

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