ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA DI II GRADO “ G. Ugdulena”
Sez. Liceo delle scienze Umane “Mons.T. Panzeca” - Caccamo
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
CLASSE III SEZ. B Anno Scolastico 2018/2019
Docente: Guglielmo Maria Carmela
Libro di testo: C. Latham-Koenig, C. Oxenden, P. Seligson “English File Digital GOLD -A2/B1”
O.U.P. third edition. FILES 1 – 5.
GRAMMAR - Revisione dei tempi verbali e delle principali strutture morfosintattiche oggetto di studio nel biennio: Present Simple degli ausiliari to be, to have got, can e dei verbi comuni alle forme affermativa, interrogativa, negativa ed interrog./negativa con risposte brevi.
Possessive adjectives/ pronouns; demonstrative adjectives/ pronouns; prepositions of time/place.
Adverbs/ expressions of frequency; present continuous.
FILE 1 - Word order in Questions/ Prepositions of place; Present Simple/ Continuous.
FILE 2 - Past simple of be, regular/ irregular verbs; prepositions of time; past time expressions.
Past Continuous; Time sequences / connectors.
FILE 3 - To be going to ( Intentions – predictions); Verbs + prepositions
Present continuous ( future arrangements); Defining relative Clauses.
FILE 4 - Present Perfect + yet – just- already; Present Perfect or Past Simple;
Something, anything, nothing etc.; adjectives ending in /ed /ing/
FILE 5 - Comparative adjectives and adverbs; Superlative adjectives.
COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS - Talking about family, studies and free time activities; describing people: appearance/ personality; talking about temporary actions/ past events, experience and abilities; talking about recent events/experience / future plans/ arrangements/ intentions;
making predictions / comparisons; expressing preferences.
VOCABULARY - Appearance, Personality, Clothes, Holidays, Housework, Shopping.
PRONUNCIATION - Vowel sounds /e/ o / 3:/ ^/; the letters / h / t / d /;
Consonants sounds /ch / sh / gi-ge / th / final ing/ ed/ final es /s /.
ENGLISH CULTURE - Reading Comprehension, class debate and oral summary of the following texts:
“Who Knows You Better” pag. 6 ; “The Place is Perfect…” pag. 12; “ 900 New Words in Three Months” pag. 25; “What Do you really Do at the weekend?” pag. 33;
“Equality in The Home” pag. 193; “The Fisherman and The Banker” pag.199.
Libro di testo : N. Iandelli, R. Zizzo, J.Humphries, A. Smith “Smart Grammar” ediz. Eli Approfondimento dei seguenti contenuti linguistici:
Ch. 9 – 10 Il plurale dei sostantivi; plurali irregolari
Ch. 25 -26 – 27 - 28 Il Present Simple; gli avverbi/ le espressioni di frequenza/ gli interrogativi Ch. 29 Il verbo To have e le espressioni idiomatiche
Ch. 31 -32 - 33 Il Present Continuous/ Present Simple a confronto; i verbi di stato Ch. 40 - 41 Some – any – no - none/ How much/many
Ch. 50 - 50.2 Pronomi relativi Who – Who(m) – Which - That; Frase relativa determinativa Ch. 53 – 54 - 55 Il Past Simple di To be, dei verbi regolari ed irregolari
Ch. 57 - 58 Il Past Continuous / Il Simple Past a confronto Ch. 59 – 60 - 62 Il Present Perfect Simple/ Past Simple a confronto Ch. 73 – 74.2 I Connettivi di tempo/ sequenza e di causa
Ch. 74.3 – 74.4 I Connettivi di conseguenza, concessione e contrasto Ch. 80 – 81 Il Comparativo di maggioranza, uguaglianza e di minoranza Ch. 82 -83 Il Superlativo di maggioranza; Comparativi e Superlativi irregolari Ch. 85 - 86 Il Present Continuous con valore di futuro; Be going to.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Libro di testo: M. Spicci, T. A. Shaw, D. Montanari “Amazing Minds Compact” ediz. Pearson Mod. 1 FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Historical and Social Background
Celtic and Roman Britain: Celtic Britain – The Roman Invasion - End of the Roman occupation and beginning of Anglo-Saxon England.
Anglo – Saxon Britain: the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy – Christianity – Viking raids – Alfred the Great – the Venerable Bede – The Last invasion.
Norman England : William the Conqueror – Henry II and his Sons – King John and the Magna Carta – - the Birth of the English Language.
Literary Background
From the Anglo-Saxon Age to the Middle Ages – Anglo-Saxon Literature – Translations and Religious Drama – After the Norman Conquest – Minstrels, Knights and Pilgrims.
“Beowulf”: a Germanic Legend - the Plot – a perfect Hero – Main Themes and Style.
- “Beowulf’s Funeral” : reading comprehension/ analysis pag. 28 -29, lines 1 - 17 e 27 – 36.
Geoffrey Chaucer: a poet and a traveller – Chaucer’s Literary Production – “The Canterbury Tales”: a timeless masterpiece – the universal journey of mankind – Chaucer’s legacy – a portrait of English society – the pilgrimage – social subversion – main themes.
From “The Canterbury Tales”
- “The General Prologue”: reading/comprehension/ analysis pag. 37 -38, lines 1 -34.
Caccamo, 03/06/2019
