4D - Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein

Liceo Scientifico Statale Albert Einstein
Palermo
Anno scolastico 2015/2016
Sez. D
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Classe IV
Programma di Inglese
Dal testo Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,
Margaret Layton - Performer Culture &
Literature 1+2
THE PURITAN AGE
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The Civil War and the Commonwealth
The Puritan mind
John Milton, Paradise Lost, “Satan’s Speech”,
reading, translation
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THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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New scientific methods
The Royal society
Newton’s view of the universe
The Restoration of the Monarchy
The Glorious Revolution
The birth of political parties
The Tories and Whigs
THE GOLDEN AGE
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Key points
Reason and common sense
A new view of nature
The means for cultural debate
Journalism
Two newspaper: “The spectator” and “Il Caffè”
The rise of the novel
 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, a bourgeois
hero
o Man Friday
o The desert island
The satirical novel
 Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
o Passage “Lilliput”
The Gothic Novel
Mary Shelley and a new interest in science
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, passage “The
Monster”, themes of the novel, literary technique.
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
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THE RESTORATION
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William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper, Songs of
Innocence
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper, Songs of
Experience
Edmund Burke, The concept of sublime, reading
activity.
PPT materiali del libro di testo: William Blake,
artist and engraver.
Romanticism in England
PPT materiali del libro di testo: Romantic painting,
Turner and Constable
Dal testo Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,
Margaret Layton - Performer FCE Tutor
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The new Hero, reading, speaking activity
Present simple vs. present continuous
Adjectives ending –ing, -ed
Suffixes , word formation
Phrasal verbs: take
The Harry Potter Phenomenon, reading
Present perfect: been vs gone
Writing activity: email, short essay
Attività CLIL
Thermodynamics: A brief History
Thermodynamics: How a Freezer works
Thermodynamics: questionnaire.
Palermo, 08/06/2016
AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
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Key points
Industrial society
Heroes of invention
PPT materiali del libro di testo: The places of the
Industrial Revolution.
Prof.ssa M.P.Mastruzzo