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PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE classe IV B Docente E.D’Agostino

LINGUA “CHANGE UP” dalla unit 5 alla unit 8:

Unit 5 Communication / Future continuous
Tense review:PresentSimple,Present Continuous(four uses compared) / Some multi-part verbs
Dealing with unknown words
Unit 6 What The Future Holds / Review:lLinkers
Review:the Passive
Future Perfect / Adjectives,nouns and verbs with the same root.
Using ‘colourful’words and expressions in a short story.
TOPIC C. A CHANGING WORLD
Unit 7 Poverty & Affluence / Construction with prepositions
Modals:probability,possibility
(could/may/might/ought to/should) / Vocabulary for report writing.
Collocations and synonyms with verbs and multi-part verbs.
Unit 8 Emerging Countries / Articles Constructions with impossibility Wish/if only/would adverbs Modals:certainty, rather / Vocabulary connected with the themes ‘economics’ and ‘politics’.Figures of speech.similes and metaphors.Adverbs with two forms and meanings.

SPEAK UP articles letti durante l’anno,a scelta dagli studenti.Due articoli con audio assegnati come letture estive.

LETTERATURA:testo Visions and Perspectives,From the Origins to the Romantic Age

PART 2 The Renaissance and the Puritan Age
Drama
W.Shakespeare,
Hamlet:To be or not to be(On Screen).
Macbeth: Macbeth Shall Sleep No More,text p.135,136.
Poetry:The Sonnet.
Elizabethan sonnets.
W.Shakespeare,
Sonnet XVIII,
Sonnet CXXX.
Sir Philip Sydney.
J.Donne,A Lecture Upon The Shadows of Love(fotocopia).
Extension :Today’s Persspective,Welcome to England and to the USA.
General Overview.
The Puritan Age:
The Historical Background.
The Literary Context.
J.Milton,ParadiseLost,text p.161,162. / Part 3 The Restoration and the AugustanAge
Historical background.
Literary context
Extension:Newspapers Now and Then.Clubs.
Prose:
Fiction,
D.Defoe,RobinsonCrusoe,text p.194.
Isla Robinson Crusoe(extension).
J.Swift,Gulliver’sTravels,text p.202,203.
S.Richardson,Pamela,or Virtue Rewarded,text p.206,207.
The Epistolary Novel.
H.Fielding,TomJones,text p.211.
L.Sterne,TristamShandy,text p.214,215.
General Overview. / Part 4
The Romantic Age
Historical Background.
Literary Context:
Romantic Poetry:
Thomas Gray,Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard(in general).
Neo-classical vs Romantic themes(p.242,n,4)
Gray and Foscolo.
W.Blake,The Lamb,pag.248.
The Tyger,p.250,251.
London,pag.252.
W.Wordsworth,Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
I Wandered Lonely a s a Cloud,pag.260
S.T.Coleridge,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,pag.264,265.
Romantic Prose:
Mary Shelley,Frankenstein.