Life and Works - Liceo Classico e Scientifico Euclide

Programma di Lingua e Civiltà Inglese
A.S. 2010/2011
Classe 1^D Scientifico
Docente: Prof.ssa Patrizia Altana Manca
Dal testo in adozione: P. Radley- D. Simonetti “New Horizons” vol.1
Unit 1-Where’s Clare? / Have you got a stereo?
Functions
•
Talking about the house
•
Talking about possessions
•
Talking about dates
Grammar
•
Verb be: Present simple (all forms)
•
Verb have got: Present simple (I, you)
•
Some, any
•
Interrogative pronouns: When?
Vocabulary
•
Rooms and furniture
•
Personal possessions
•
Dates, months, ordinal numbers, festivals
Unit 2-He’s got a Saturday job
Functions
•
Talking about family
•
Describing people (physical appearance)
Grammar
•
Verb have got: Present simple (all forms)
•
Possessive case (& plural nouns)
•
Possessive adjectives (plural)
•
Adjective order
•
Qualifies: a bit, (not) very, quite, really)
Vocabulary
•
The family
•
Physical description: looks, height, build, hair, eyes
Unit 3-I really like R&B/ Rob doesn’t like them
Functions
•
Talking about likes and dislikes
•
Agreeing and disagreeing
Grammar
•
Present Simple: like + -ing; play; do and go + -ing
•
Which? What?
•
Connectors: and, but, or
•
Object pronouns
•
So do I.; Neither do I.; Oh, I do.; Oh, I don’t.
Vocabulary
•
Types of music
•
Sports and free-time activities
Skills
•
Listening: Teenagers discussing tribute bands
•
Reading: Fantastic Fakes!
•
Speaking: Talking about music and tribute bands
•
Writing: A description of your favourite band
Unit 4-What time do you get up?/ I’m usually exhausted!
Functions
•
Talking about daily activities and telling the time
•
Talking about lifestyle
Grammar
•
Present Simple (all forms)
•
Expressions with have (have lunch)
•
The time
•
Both
•
Preposition of time: at, in, on
•
Adverbs and expressions of frequency
Vocabulary
•
Daily activities
•
Days of week
•
Jobs in the house
•
Part-time jobs
Skills
•
Listening: A teenager talking about her part-time job
•
Speaking: Discussing the advantages/ disadvantages of part-time jobs
Unit 5-I’m having a great time!/ Rob isn’t speaking to me!/ Are you joking?/ Are you jealous?
Functions
•
Talking about present activities (on the phone)
•
Talking about temporary actions
•
Talking about the present
Grammar
•
Present continuous (all forms)
•
Present continuous v Present Simple
•
Time expressions (at the moment, these days, this week/month/year…)
Vocabulary
•
Everyday activities
•
Personal life
•
School
Skills
•
Listening: An Italian school-exchange student comparing
•
Reading: a different way of studying
Unit 6-How much sugar do you use every week?/ Oh no! There isn’t a dessert!
Functions
•
Talking about food and quantity
•
Talking about diet
Grammar
•
Countable and uncountable nouns
•
How much?/How many?
•
There is, there are
•
Some, any, a few, a little, few, little (too) much, many, a lot of/lots of, not enough
Vocabulary
•
Food, drink and diet
•
Personal life
•
School
Skills
•
Listening: Teenagers talking about problems with food
•
Reading: Dear diary, ….
•
Speaking: Talking about bullying
•
Writing: A letter to a radio programme about a problem
Unit 7-What would you like?/ What about going shopping?
Functions
•
Making requests and offers
•
Making, accepting and refusing suggestions
•
Talking about ability
Grammar
•
Would you like (to), want (to), would like v like
•
Let’s …, Shall we … ?
•
What about/ How about + -ing
•
Would prefer to, would rather
•
Can: ability
•
Well, (not) very well
Vocabulary
•
Meals in Britain
•
Abilities
•
British/American English
Skills
•
Listening: Two British teenagers talking about American culture in the UK
•
Speaking: Talking about the influence of American culture
Programma di Lingua e Civiltà Inglese
A.S. 2010/2011
Classe 2^D Liceo Scientifico Euclide
Docente: Prof.ssa Patrizia Altana Manca
Dal testo in adozione: P. Radley- D. Simonetti “New Horizonts” vol.1
Unit 12-London’s more expensive than Delhi / Can I try it on, please?
Functions
•
Making comparisons and expressing preferences
•
Shopping for clothes
•
Describing clothes
Grammar
•
Comparative adjectives
•
Superlative adjectives
•
Is/are wearing…
Vocabulary
•
The city and the country
•
Clothes
•
Fashion
Unit 13-What are you doing to do?
Functions
•
Talking about future intentions
•
Making and talking about arrangements
Grammar
•
Be going to (1) : future intentions
•
Present continuous : future arrangements
•
Future time expressions (tomorrow, in two days’time…)
•
Be going to v Present continuous v Present simple
Vocabulary
•
Life choices and ambitions
Skills
•
Reading : It’s good to be a student!
Unit 14-What’s Rob like? / What’s the weather like in London?
Functions
•
Describing personality
•
Talking about the weather
•
Making sure predictions
Grammar
•
Be going to (2) : predictions based on present evidence
•
What’s she like? v What does she like?
•
Qualifiers : not enough, a little bit, fairly, pretty, too
Vocabulary
•
Personality adjectives
•
The weather
•
Compass points
Unit 15-I’ve never been to a film festival ! / I’ve heard It’s really good
Functions
•
Talking about experiences
•
Comparing experiences
Grammar
•
Present perfect (1) : ever/never, been/gone, recently
•
Present perfect v Past simple
•
Agreeing and Disagreeing
Vocabulary
• Regular and irregular past participles
Skills
• Reading : Amazing Coincidences
Unit 16-Shall I put this rug here? / We’ve just got back
Functions
• Making offers of help and accepting/refusing offers
• Talking about recent events
Grammar
• Present perfect (2) : Just, already, yet
• I’ll … , and shall I/we…? Offers
• Will (1) spontaneous decisions
Vocabulary
• Rooms and furniture (2)
• Party preparations
• Tidying up
Dal testo in adozione: P. Radley- D. Simonetti “New Horizonts” vol.2
Unit 1-How will life change in the future? / I may come to Cardiff at the weekend
Functions
• Talking about the future
•
Talking about the future possibility
• Making promises
Grammar
• Will (2) : Predictions and future fact
• May, might : future possibility
• Will (3) : promises
Vocabulary
• Ecology
Skills
• Reading : C.A.T. – solutions for a dying planets
Unit 2-I must come here more often! / Do you have to take your shoes off?
Functions
• Talking about obligation
• Talking about rules and laws
• Past and future obligation
Grammar
• Must, mustn’t
• Have to, don’t have to
• Past and future of must and have to
Vocabulary
• Classroom behavior
• Rules of the road
Skills
• Reading : The end of fair play?
Unit 3-Will you phone me if you come?
Functions
• Talking about conditions
• Giving information
• Talking about purpose
Grammar
• First conditional (if I go …)
• When, as soon as, unless
• Defining relative clauses : who, which, that, whose
• Infinitive of purpose : it’s for + -ing
Vocabulary
• Computer
• Film genres
Skills
• Reading : what if it really happens?
Unit 5-It was raining when I left Washington / Were you able to get any brochures?
Functions
• Past actions in progress
• Talking about past ability
• Interrupted past actions
Grammar
• Past continuous (all forms)
• Could, was/were able to, managed to
• Past simple and past continuous: when, while, as
Vocabulary
• Air travel
• Mythical creatures
Skills
• Reading : Looking for a better life
Unit 6-I’ve had a credit card since I was 16
Functions
• Talking about duration
• Talking about multiple items
• At the post office
Grammar
• Past perfect (3) : for, since
• Present perfect v past simple
• Each, every, all
Vocabulary
• Money and savings
• The post office
Unit 7-How long have you been running the dogs’ home? / Are you calm and understanding?
Functions
• Talking about unfinished actions
• Talking about skills
• Going for a job interview
Grammar
• Present perfect continuous : for, since
• Present perfect continuous v present perfect simple
• Adjectives + prepositions: good at, keen on…
Vocabulary
• Jobs : prerequisites, skills, personal qualities
Unit 8-I’m getting tired of her / How are computer games?
Functions
• Make, do and get
• Describing process
• Talking about natural disasters
Grammar
• Make, do, get
• Present simple passive
Vocabulary
• Expressions with make, do and get
• Natural disasters
• Killer wave
Skills
• Looking for a better life
Alunni
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
Docente
______________________________
Programma di lingua e civiltà inglese
A.S. 2010/2011 classe III A scientifico
Docente: prof.ssa Patrizia Altana Manca
Dal libro in adozione: M. Spiazzi – M. Tavella - Edizione Zanichelli - Only connect…New Directions
vol.1: from the origins to the Eighteenth Century
The Origins
introduction
Saxon, Viking and roman place names
Key points
The historical and Social Context
1.1 Celtic Britain
1.2 The Romans
1.3 The Anglo-Saxons
1.4 The conversion to Christianity
1.5 The Vikings and the end of Anglo-Saxon England
The Literary Context
1.8 The epic poem and the elegy
Authors and texts
1.9 Beowulf: a primary epic
- plot
- Beowulf’s origin
- the mysteries of Beowulf
- Why Beowulf is an epic
- the language of epic style
The Middle Ages
Introduction
The Norman Conquest
Key Points
The Historical and Social Context
2.1 The Norman conquest and feudalism
2.2 Henry II, reforms and Becket
2.3 Kings, Magna Carta and Parliament
The Literary Context
2.8 the medieval ballad
Authors and texts
2.10 Popular ballads
t5 Lord Randal
A Modern Perspective
The ballad and social criticism
- Like a rolling stone by Bob Dylan
- The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen
- No bravery by James Blunt
2.11 Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
t8 The Prioress
t10 The Wife of Bath
The Renaissance
introduction
Key Points
The Historical and Social Context
3.1 The Tudor dynasty
3.2 The Reformation
Dossier
The myth of Elizabeth I
The Literary Context
3.8 The sonnet
Authors and texts
3.11 The Elizabethan sonneteers
t 12 Sir Philip Sidney : Loving in truth
t 13 Edmund Spenser: coming to kiss her lips
t 14 William Shakespeare : shall I compare thee
Gli alunni
L’insegnante
Programma di Inglese
Classe:
4^A
Docente:
Proff.sa Patrizia Altana Manca
Anno Scolastico: 2010 – 2011
Testo adottato: New literary links – From the origins to the romantic age.
Autori: Graeme Thomson, Silvia Maglioni
Editore: Black Cat
Argomenti:
-) From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age:
• The English Renaissance
• Roots of the Renaissance
• The centrality of man
• Italian influences of the english renaissance
-) From Tudors to Stuarts:
• The Tudors
• The Reformation
• The age of religious persecution
• The reign of Elizabeth I
• The myth of Elizabeth I
• The battle for naval supremacy
-) Literature during the Renaissance:
• The influences of Plato
• Renaissance Prose
-) Thomas More:
• Life and works
• Utopia
• From Utopia to Dystopia
-) Renaissance Drama:
• The uman condition
• Elizabethan theatre
-) Christopher Marlowe:
• Life and works
• Doctor Faustus
-) William Shakespeare:
• Life and works
• Shakespeare's plays
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
-) The Restoration and the Augustan age:
• The Augustan age
• The Age of Enlightenment
• Augustan Literature
• The rise of the novel
• Formal variety
-) Jonathan Swift:
• Life and Works
• Gulliver's Travels
-) Daniel Defoe:
• Life and Works
• Robinson Crusoe
-) Samuel Richardson
• Life and Works
• Clarissa
-) Henry Fielding:
• Life and Works
• Tom Jones
-) Laurence Sterne
• Life and Works
• Tristram Shandy
• The Experimental novel
Durante l'anno, la classe ha assistito alla proiezione del film Hamlet di Franco Zeffirelli con Mel
Gibson, Glenn Close and Alan Bates, che hapermesso alla classe di cogliere in chiave
cinematografica l'opera teatra le di W. Shakespeare.
Gli Alunni
La Docente
Cagliari, 07/06/2011
Liceo Classico-Scientifico “Euclide”
Programma di lingua e Civiltà Inglese
A.S.:2010/2011
Classe: 5° A Scientifico
Docente: Prof.ssa Patrizia Altana Manca
Dal testo in adozione: G. Thomson – S. Maglioni “New Literary Landscapes” ed. “Black Cat”
– fotocopie di brani, poesie e integrazioni critiche tratte da G .Thomson – S. Maglioni
“New literary links (From the origins to the Romantic age + From the Victorian age to
Contemporary Times)” ed. “Black Cat”
The Romantic Age
The Age of Revolutions
• The American War of Indipendence
• The Industrial Revolution: The shift to the city
• The French Revolution: From emacinpation to terror
The Literary Ground
Literature in the Romantic Age
• Landmark: Isn’t it “Romantic”?
•
Precursors of Romanticism: Thomas Gray.
• Romantic Poetry
• Poetic visions – Characteristics of Romanticism
•
Landmark: The Sublime – “E.Burkes’s essay”, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin
of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
•
The first generation of Romantic poets: Blake, Coleridge and wordsworth
•
The second generation of Romantic poets: J.Keats
• The Novel in the Romantic Age: Gothic subversion Poetry
Thomas Gray: Life and works
Focus on the texts: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
• Gray and the Sublime
•
Stylistic Features: Between Classicism and Romanticism
•
Thematic links: Graveyard Poetry; Gray and Foscolo;
•
Edgard Lee Masters: “The Anthology of Spoon River”: Genesis; Structure; Features;
Themes
• “The Hill”
•
Fabrizio De Andrè: “Non al denaro, non all’amore, nè al cielo”: “La collina”;
Translation and Critics by Fernanda Pivano; Multimedial Work listening to De Andrè
Songs; Tribute taken from the TV Show “Che tempo che fa” directly from the Spoon
River Cemetery performed by Jovanotti.
•
Totò (Antonio De Curtis) “A livella”; Vision and Analisys of a Cartoon taken from
YouTube Web Channel
W.Wordsworth : Life and works
• Lyrical ballads
• The Preface to Lyrical ballads: a poetic manifesto
•
Focus on the text: “I wondered lonely as cloud” ;
•
Thematic links: Childhood; Nature as a source of joy; Imagination; Emotion
recollected in tranquillity; The poetry of the everyday
•
Art link: J.Constable: Nature in its element
S.T. Coleridge : life and works
• Coleridge’s primary and secondary imagination
• Focus on the text: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• Stylistic Features
• Interpretations
•
Part I and Part II Part VII (from Witness to the times Vol.2)
•
Thematic links: Interfering with Nature (against Nature); The weight of guilt
•
Art link: G. Dore’s engravings the Rime of The Ancient Ballad – Turner: Turbulent
Landscapes
J.Keats : life and work
•
Keat’s aesthetics
•
Focus on the text: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; “Ode to a Nightingale”
•
Thematic links: Language and Sensations – The truth of Beauty – The Price of
Eternity an Ambivalence towards art – Art for art’s sake; Keats: a precursor of
English Aestethicism and Decadentism
• Art link: Pre-Raffaellit Brotherwood
Romantic Prose
•
Gothic fiction: A literary phenomenon
Mary Shelley: Life and works
•
Focus on the text: Frankestein or the Modern Prometheus
• The Plot – Interpretations
•
Thematic links: Gothic – Interfering with Nature
The Victorian Age
The Historical Ground
• The Age of Empire
• Economy and Society
•
The pressure for reforms
• The cost of living
• Poverty and the poor laws
• The expansion of Britain’s Empire
• The Victorian compromise
• A time of change
• Darwin and the theory of evolution
The Literary Ground
• Victorian literature
• The Victorian Novel – A mirror of life
C. Dickens: Life and works
•
Focus on the text: “Hard times”: extracts “A man of realities”; “Coketown”
•
Plot – Interpretations
•
Thematic Links: Social criticism ; Childhood ; The town as a centre of alienation; The
classes conflict
H. Melville: Life and works
•
Focus on the text: “Moby Dick”
•
Plot – Interpretations – Themes – The most important characters – Stylistic features
–Influences – Influences of Coleridge’s “The rime of the Ancient Mariner” in Moby
Dick
•
Thematic Links: The Journey as an Inner Quest; Guilt and Espiation; Interferring with
Nature (against Nature)
R.L. Stevenson: Life and Works
•
Focus on the text: “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
• Different perspectives
• The Double life
•
The suppression of instinct
• Thematic Links: Uncontrollable forces – The Double
Oscar Wilde: life and works
•
Focus on the text : “The picture of Dorian Gray”
•
The Preface: a manifesto of the Aesthetic movement
• The Plot: The Exchange of Art and life ; A Faustian wish – Truth and Beauty
• Thematic links : The Truth of Beauty – Uncontrollable forces against nature – The
Double – Wilde and D’Annunzio
The age of Modernism
A time of war
• The last days of Victorian optimism
• The suffragettes
•
Cultural transformation in the early 20th century
Modern Literature
• Modernism in Europe
• Modernism and the convergence of the arts
Modernism and the novel
• A break with the past
• The influence of mass culture
• Freud’s theory of the unconscious
• The influence of Bergson – the river of Time
• Bergson and la Durèe
• William James and the idea of consciousness
• The flow of consciousness
•
Expressing the interior world – New techniques of writing: Direct interior
monologue; indirect interior monologue
•
Woolf and Joyce: diverging streams
•
Virginia Woolf: “To the Lighthouse”: Stylistic features – Symbolism
James Joyce: Life and works
• The role of the modernist writer
• Epiphanies
•
Focus on the text: “ Ulysses “; Molly’s monologue
• The Odyssey vs Ulysses
• The modern anti-hero
• An Odyssey in the consciousness
• The mechanics of consciousness
• An encyclopaedic novel
•
Thematic links: The city as the centre of spiritual paralysis of character and
disintegration and chaos (Freud’s Theory of the unconscious) ; Myth and Exile as a
way of escaping reality; the human lack of communication
The contemporary literature
D.H. Lawrence: Life and Works
• Focus on the text: “Sons and lovers”
•
Plot – Interpretations
•
Themes: England and Classes – The Family context – View of sex – The Oedipus
Complex
G. Orwell: Life and Works
•
Focus on the text: “1984”; “Animal Farm”
•
Plot – Interpretations
•
Themes: Totalitarian state in the future – A Society of Dictatorship Control – Antiutopia – Fable/Allegory
Post Modernism in America – The Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac: Life and Works
• Focus on the text: “On the road”
•
Plot – Interpretations
• Stylistic structure
•
Themes: The Natural Man – Friendship – Contrast between Man and Human
prejudices
Alunni:
Cagliari, 9 Giugno 2011
Docente: