Ethan Frome - G. G. Trissino

ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “G.G. TRISSINO”- VALDAGNO (VI)
Anno Scolastico 2015-16
CONTENUTI DISCIPLINARI
Docente: Coscia Debora
Materia insegnata: Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
Classe/Sede: 3 AA – Liceo Artistico
Testi adottati:
 The Prose and the Passion Only Connect New Directions - Terza edizione - From the
Origins to the Twentieth Century, Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Zanichelli, 2011.
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Headway Intermediate, Liz e John Soars, Oxford University Press.
Argomenti svolti
LITERATURE:
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From Early Britain to the Middle Ages (700 BCE -1485)
1. Early Britain: a history of invasions.
2. The Norman Conquest.
3. Anglo-Saxon Literature.
Beowulf.
4. Literature in the late Middle Ages.
Medieval Poetry – The Ballad.
Lord Randal.
The Ballad of Geordie.
5. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. (“April’s Sweet Showers”, “The merchant”,
“The Wife of Bath”).
6. Medieval Drama.
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The English Renaissance
1. From Tudors to Stuarts.
2. Literature during the Renaissance.
3. Renaissance Poetry: The Sonnet.
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Sonnet 116.
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Sonnet 130.
4. Renaissance Drama.
5. The Elizabethan Theatre.
6. William Shakespeare’s life and works.
Le unità del libro di testo sono state integrate con materiale fotocopiato.
La classe ha svolto un progetto dal titolo “Skakespeare’s Plays in Veneto”. Gli studenti sono stati
suddivisi in gruppi e hanno realizzato un lavoro in PowerPoint sulle seguenti opere teatrali del
Bardo:
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The Merchant of Venice;
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Romeo and Juliet;
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Otello;
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The two Gentlemen of Verona;
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Hamlet;
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Macbeth.
LANGUAGE: (Grammar Focus)
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Unit 1: A world of Difference.
Tenses - Auxiliary verbs.
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Unit 2: The Working Week.
Present Tenses: Simple Present vs Present Continuous; State and Action verbs; Adverbs of
Frequency.
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Unit 3: Good Times, Bad Times.
Past Tenses: Simple Past; Past Continuous; Present Perfect.
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