Liceo Statale Eleonora D’Arborea - Cagliari
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
3°B Scienze Umane DOCENTE: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Peltz A.S.2020/21 Libri di testo: - J. Bowie, Engage with your future, Pearson
- M. Spicci, T.A. Show, Amazing Minds - Compact, Pearson
CONTENUTI LINGUISTICI : Funzioni comunicative Livelli B1; Conoscenza di vocaboli (terminologia specialistica e generale per parlare di testi letterari e dei loro contenuti), strutture ed esponenti linguistici propedeutici allo studio della storia e letteratura inglese (Il passivo, i tempi verbali del passato e in particolare i narrative tenses e il periodo ipotetico).
Ripasso delle UNITA’ 10-11, trattate lo scorso anno.
UNIT 10. GET THE LOOK.
Functions: • Talking about unfinished actions • Talking about past actions • Talking about clothes and style • Talking about celebrities • Describing personal style • Asking for and giving opinions about clothes Being diplomatic Grammar: • Present perfect with for/since • Present perfect vs Past simple Vocabulary: • Clothes, fashion and style • Jewellery Clothes factory and workers’ exploitation
UNIT 11. FAMILY SNAPSHOTS
Functions: • Talking about families • Talking about past habits • Talking about relationships Making a phone call: answering a call, checking the other’s identity, introducing yourself, explaining your call, taking and passing on a message. Grammar: • used to • Verbs + gerund or infinitive • each other/one another • want/need/expect/force/get someone to do something;
make someone do something. Vocabulary: Extended families and Relationships:
UNIT 12. IT’S A SMALL WORLD
Functions: • Talking about cultural traditions Inviting: declining, persuading, accepting, giving details of time and place. Grammar: • Defining relative clauses: who, that/which, where • No relative pronoun (contact clauses) • Indefinite pronouns • so/such … that.
Vocabulary: •Cultural diversity and Celebrations UNIT 13. THE TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION
Functions: • Presenting a problem • Listening/Sympathising • Offering solutions • Apologising • Asking for an explanation • Offering an explanation • Asking for action • Making complaints; Talking about technology. Talking about recent actions; Grammar: • Present perfect continuous • Talking about recent actions; Present perfect continuous vs Present perfect simple. • have gone vs have been • Present perfect with ever and never
Present perfect with just/already/ yet. Vocabulary: • Mobile technology and Touchscreen actions
UNIT 15. MEDIA MATTERS
Functions: •Describing processes •Explaining the stages of a process •Asking for information •Showing understanding • Showing lack of understanding. Grammar: •The Passive •Causative have/get •have something done •Reflexive pronouns. Vocabulary: •Mass media; Broadcast media.
UNIT 16. SHOP TILL YOU DROP
Functions: • Expressing wishes. Grammar: •Zero and First conditionals: Revision •Second conditional •I wish/If only+ past simple.
Contenuti storico-letterari e culturali
Module 1
From the Origins to Norman conquest (500 - 1066.)
Historical and social background: 1) Celtic and Roman Britain - 2) Anglo-Saxon Britain - 3) Norman England.
Module 2
The History of English: The evolution of the English language.
Main Literary Genres Module 3 Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: a Poet and a Traveller; The Father of the English Literature (life and works).
The Canterbury Tales, a narrative poem ( setting in time and place, characters and plot). The pilgrimage as a spiritual journey. Medieval society.
Text analysis and interpretation of “The General Prologue” and of “The Wife of Bath”
The students present orally one of the thirty pilgrims chosen by them and give a description of his/her physical appearance, clothes, job, and personality.
Culture. Reading comprehensions: - Teen can be heros too (photocopy); Ana’s story (Immigration); Global English: The English speaking world; US National Parks;
Educazione civica: Ecology and sustainable development: Greta Thunberg’s speech (I quadrimestre);
