PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE

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PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE

Classe IV C Anno scolastico 2018/2019

Testi in adozione:

 Roy Norris, Straight to First, Student’s book + workbook, Macmillan Education

 Arturo Cattaneo, Donatella De Flaviis, Millenium,, C. Signorelli Scuola.

LINGUA

UNIT 1: Influence Grammar

 Present tenses

 Past tenses Vocabulary

 Influences

 The weather

Reading and Use of English

 Multiple matching

 Multiple-choice cloze UNIT 2: Success

Grammar

 Comparisons Vocabulary

 Word formation: Adjectives; Sport Reading and Use of English

 Gapped text

LITERAURE

THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE (449-1066) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

 Pre-Celtic and Celtic Britain

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 Celtic art

 Roman Britain

 The Anglo-Saxon invasion

 The Germanic and the Viking element

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE ANGLO-SAXON POETRY

 The epic

 Features of Anglo-Saxon poetry BEOWULF (p.61).

 Germanic legend in Old English poetry.

 The heroic ideal

 The story CULTURE The warlike ideal

 Anglo-Saxon society

 The Christian influence

THE MIDDLE AGES (1066-1485) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

 The Norman conquest.

 The clash between Crown and Church: Thomas Becket

 Magna Charta and Parliament

 The Wars of the Roses CULTURE

 The French influence

 A new literature in English Medieval poetry

Medieval Ballads

 Geordie (photocopy) GEOFFREY CHAUCER

 Life

 Works

 The father of English poetry The Canterbury Tales

 The structure of the tales

 Chaucer’s pilgrims

 A portrait of middle-class England From The Canterbury Tales:

 The Wife of Bath (comment)

COMPARING CULTURES

 Chaucer, Boccaccio and Dante

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RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

POETRY

 THE SONNET (general features). The Petrarchan and the English Sonnet WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: life and works.

Shakespeare’s sonnets

 The greatest English sonnet sequence

 The fair youth, the dark lady, the rival poet

 Main themes of the collection: love and time

 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (analysis)

 Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds (analysis) SHAHESPEARE’S PLAYS:

 The First Folio

 The dating of Shakespeare’s plays

 The dramatic works

 The years of apprenticeship

 The history plays and the love comedies

 The great tragedies and the dark comedies

 The romances

 Shakespeare’s universality THEMES

 The world as a stage Romeo and Juliet

 The play

 Only Your Name Is My Enemy. (Act II, Scene II, comment) Hamlet

 The play

 To Be, or Not to Be. (Act III, Sc.1, comment)

Caccamo, giugno 2019

Gli alunni L’insegnante

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