Liceo Scientifico “ANTONIO LABRIOLA”

Liceo Scientifico Statale“ANTONIO LABRIOLA” A.S. 2014/2015
Classe 4 F Liceo Scientifico – Scienze Applicate
Prof.ssa DE RUVO ELISABETTA
Programma di Lingua e Cultura INGLESE
Dal libro di testo: Performer Culture and Literature 1
From the Origins to the Eighteenth Century
di Marina Spiazzi – Marina Tavella – Margaret Layton
Editrice Zanichelli
A CULTURAL AWAKENING (1485 – 1625)
History:
Meet the Tudors (1485 – 1603)
The Stuarts - King by Divine right (1603 – 1625)
The Arts:
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
Video Lab:
Elizabeth; Elizabeth, The Golden Age
Drama:
The origin of Drama; Mistery and Miracle plays; Morality plays and Interludes; The Playhouse
Society:
Elizabethan entertainment
Science:
An expanding world
Literature:
The English Renaissance
The Sonnet
Comparing Literatures:
The English and the Italian Sonnet
W. Shakespeare My Mistress’eyes (sonnet CXXX)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: ENGLAND’S GENIUS
Literature:
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): life and works
Shakespeare’s London
The structure of theatres
The Audiences
The world of Drama
Opening scenes in Shakespeare’s plays
Romeo and Juliet (1595): the plot, themes
The Prologue: Two households both alike in dignity
The Ball
The Balcony scene
With a kiss I die
Hamlet (1603): the plot, themes
To Be or not to Be
A TIME OF UPHEAVAL :
History:
Charles I’s reign (1625 – 1641)
The Civil War and the Commonwealth (1642 – 1660)
Oliver Cromwell and the Ironsides
The Restoration of the Monarchy (1660 – 1685)
Society:
The Puritans – The Puritan mind
Cultural Issues:
The development of Human Rights: from Magna Charta (1215) to
The Universal declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Science:
The Scientific Revolution: The Royal Society
Newton’s view of the Universe
The Arts:
Sir Christopher Wren
SHAPING THE ENGLISH CHARACTER:
History:
The birth of political parties: The Tories and the Whigs
Society:
A golden age: Reason and Common sense
Literature: The Augustan Age (1714 – 1760)
The means for cultural debate
Comparing Literatures:
Two newspapers: “The Spectator” and “Il Caffè”
The Rise of the Novel
Daniel Defoe and the Realistic Novel (1660 – 1731)
Robinson Crusoe 1719: the story; the new middle-class hero
The Journal
Man Friday
Jonathan Swift and the Satirical Novel (1667-1745)
Gulliver’s Travels 1721 – 1725: the story; the sources
Gulliver and the Lilliputians
Dal libro di testo: Performer Culture and Literature 2
The Nineteenth Century in Britain and America
di Marina Spiazzi – Marina Tavella – Margaret Layton
Editrice Zanichelli
AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS:
History:
An age of revolutions: Historical and social background
The Industrial society: Heroes of invention
Cultural issues: The long-term impact of the Industrial Revolution
W. Blake. Introduction to Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Dal libro di testo:
Performer FCE tutor
di Marina Spiazzi – Marina Tavella – Margaret Layton Casa Editrice Zanichelli
Unit 4: LEARNING
Future Continuous and Future Perfect
Writing: an opinion Essay
Unit 5: LIFESTYLES
Modals of obligation and necessity; ability and possibility
Writing: a Report
Unit6: TRAVELLING
Zero, first and second conditionals; comparatives and superlatives
Writing: a Story
L’insegnante
Elisabetta De Ruvo
Roma, 03/06/2015