Liceo Scientifico “Renato Caccioppoli” – Napoli

Programma di inglese svolto in IV I – anno scolastico 2014/2015

Dal libro di testo: Only Connect...New Directions, edizione blu vol. 1 di Marina Spiazzi e Marina Tavella, Zanichelli editore

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lavoridigruppo sui seguentidrammidi Shakespeare:
ROMEO AND JULIET: plot – first act – second act – third act – fourth act – fifth act – a comedy or a tragedy – themes – text analysis “The Balcony Scene”,da“O Romeo, Romeo” (appunti) a verso 40
HAMLET: plot – first act – second act – third act – fourth act – fifth act – text analysis “To Be or Not to Be”
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: plot – first act – second act – third act – fourth act – fifth act – analisi del testo “The Bond” (versi 31-70)

OTHELLO: plot– first act – second act – third act – fourth act – fifth act
THE TEMPEST: plot– first act – second act – third act – fourth act – fifth act

THE STUART DYNASTY AND OLIVER CROMWELL

THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT: The beginning of the Stuart dynasty – Tudor and Stuart society – Charles I’s reign – The civil war and the Commonwealth

THE WORLD PICTURE:The Puritan mind

THE LITERARY CONTEXT:Puritan literature

AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
John Milton: Life and works
Paradise Lost: A religious epic poem – The universe of Paradise Lost – Characters – Satan – Style – Text analysis “Satan’s speech” (lines 242-270)

THE AUGUSTAN AGE

THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT: The Restoration of the monarchy – The Glorious Revolution – The early Hanoverians

THE WORLD PICTURE: Scientific rigour and intellectual clarity – Reason and common sense – Enlightenment p. C12

THE LITERARY CONTEXT: Restoration literature – A survey of Augustan literature – Journalism – The rise of the novel

AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
Daniel Defoe: Life and works – Structure of the novels – Characterisation
Robinson Crusoe: Plot – The new middle-class hero – A spiritual autobiography – The island – The individual and society – The style – Text analysis: “The Island”(1-20)
Samuel Richardson: Life and works – The moralising aim – Characterisation – The epistolary novel – Narrative technique
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded: Plot – Characters – Style and popularity

THE ROMANTIC AGE

THE SOCIAL CONTEXT:Industrial and agricultural revolutions – Industrial society

THE WORLD PICTURE:Emotion vs. reason – The egotistical sublime

THE LITERARY CONTEXT:New trends in poetry – Reality and vision – two generation of Romantic poets – “A willing suspension of disbelief” – lettura e traduzionediDaffodils

AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
Mary Shelley: Life
Frankenstein: Plot – The origin of the model – The influence of science – Literary influences – Narrative structure – The double – Themes

GRAMMAR

Dal libro di testo: Grammar in Progress di Laura Bonci e Sarah M. Howell , Zanichelli editore
revisione dei tempi e delle strutture di base

Dal libro di testo: Advantage 2 di Steve Elsworth et al., Pearson/Longman editore

Unit 7: revisione delle regole grammaticali

Unit 8: dialogue – reported statements – reported questions – reported speech (other changes) – lettura e commentodi “The Eco-Schools Programme”

Unit 9:lettura e commento “Schoolboy hacker escapes jail” – past conditional – past conditional with modal verbs – reported commands – reported requests

Unit 10: dialogue – revision of 0, 1st and 2nd conditional sentences – 3rd conditional sentences – phrasal verbs – expressing regrets

Inoltre:ricostruzione della storia che si svolge nei dialoghi di ogni unità a partire dalla unità 1 – pronomi relativi

Napoli, 1giugno 2015

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