Liceo Eleonora d’Arborea
Liceo linguistico, umanistico, economico-sociale
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO - LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
Classe: 3CL A.s. 2020/21 Docenti:
prof.ssa Sara Carlini prof. Stephen Keith McComas
LETTERATURA: dal libro Cornerstone
From the Origins to the end of the Middle Ages (500-1485)
THE ORIGINS
Historical and Social Background
- The first inhabitants of Britain - The Romans
- The Angle-Saxons - The Vikings The Literary Context
- The evolution of the English language - The unwritten word
Beowulf
Monsters, dragons and heroes – reality and legend The language
The story
THE MIDDLE AGES
Historical and Social Background - The last invaders: the Normans - The social order under the Normans
- The feudal system
- Richard the Lion-Heart and King John - The Hundred Years’ War
- The Wars of the Roses The Literary Context
- Medieval literature: the ballad - Geoffrey Chaucer
- The rise of the theatre - Morality plays
- The romance
- King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table The legend of Robin Hood
Geoffrey Chaucer
- The European influence - The Canterbury Tales - Characterisation - The three estates
- The beginnings of the modern English - “The Prioress”
Chaucer and Boccaccio: “The Wife of Bath”, Decameron
The English language:
- The most widely spoken language in the world - In Europe
- A short history of the English language
- Varieties of English: British and American English
GRAMMATICA: dal libro Venture into First
- Present simple vs Present continuous - Dynamic and stative verbs
- Comparative and superlative forms - Modifiers
- Present perfect with adverbs - Adjectives and word orders - Used to vs would
- Used to vs Past simple - Be/get used to
- So and such
- To take, to bring, to carry
Christmas Holidays
Talking about the influence of birth order A Plastic Ocean: talking about Plastic pollution
