Liceo Statale Eleonora D’Arborea - Cagliari
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE 4B Scienze Umane
DOCENTE: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Peltz A.S.2020/21 Libro di testo: M. Spicci, T.A. Show, Amazing Minds - Compact, Pearson
Module 1. Poetry and Drama
William Shakespeare (life and works). Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Text analysis and interpretation of Sonnet 130: "My mistress eyes...".
Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to…” by Shakespeare. Comprehension and interpretation.
Comparing the two sonnets.
The Elizabethan theatre and the playhouses. Actors and playwrights.
Romeo and Juliet, (plot, characters, setting). Essential vocabulary to talk about plays.
Analysis and interpretation of the extract “What’s in a name?”
Module 2. Fiction
- The Novel - The rise of the Novel. The reading public: readers and writers. Novel versus romance. Main features of a novel: events , characters, narrative mode, style and language;
Reasons why the novel had a great success in the 18th century.
- The ingredients of a story. Vocabulary expansion: essential words to talk about novels (plot, setting, narrator etc.)
- D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe , (plot and interpretation), a realistic novel. Comprehension and analysis of the passage “Robinson’s first day on the island”; Reasons why it is considered a Fictional Biography
- J. Swift: the utopian /satirical novel. Gulliver's Travels (plot and interpretation) - Gulliver's misplacement -Swift as a misanthropist and a satirist. Swift's satire of his contemporary society.
Travelling to fantastic lands: through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver. A Hymn to Relativism.
- Reading comprehension and analysis of "The Academy of Lagado";
- Reading about what a satire is.
Module 3. Fiction
-The Gothic Novel. Origin of the term and main features (Settings, characters and events).
-Mary Shelley (life and influences), Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), (plot, themes and interpretations). The theme of the double and the overreacher. The Structure,; A
Romantic Prometheus and The Monster as a 'pure' and 'primitive' man; Monstrosity and social prejudice; The novel of purpose: a warning against the dangers of science.
-Text analysis and interpretation of the extract “ A Spark of being in the lifeless thing”
Module 4. Fiction
-The Novel of Manners. Jane Austen (life and works), Pride and Prejudice, (setting, characters and plot).
-Text analysis and interpretation of the passage “Darcy’s proposal”
- Comparing some movie sequences to the same scenes in the original novel in terms of accuracy, language used, settings, etc.
- Why are Darcy and Elizabeth proud? Why are they prejudiced?
GRAMMAR, CULTURE AND GENERAL ENGLISH - Relative pronouns: who, which, where, etc
- Speaking activity: - Useful language to give opinions - Comparing two pictures showing different types of school lessons: in presence and online. How do you think the students feel about the different lessons? Possible pros and cons of each of them.
- STORYTELLING. (extra material sent in Classroom):
- Reading comprehension: The Sussex Vampire by A. Conan Doyle;
- The mystery of the Cottingley fairies : reading comprehension;
- Grammar. Narrative tenses: Past Simple, Past cont., Past perfect Simple and Cont.
- Oral presentations. Historical and Social context: The Age of Revolutions. The Industrial Revolution and children’s exploitation in the factories.
- Global issues: Education. Gender disparities in education. “Shakespeare’s Sister” from A Room of One’s Own” by V. Woolf; Malala’s story (Prose: Non-fiction)
- Class debate: “Is marriage outdated?” (photocopy) - Class debate: “Are there too many rules?” (photocopy) Educazione civica:
- Global Issues: Education. Gender disparities in education. . “Shakespeare’s Sister”
from A Room of One’s Own” by V. Woolf; Malala’s story (Prose: Non-fiction) (I quadrimestre);
