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INDICE GENERALE
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Part I
The basics of teaching subjects
Book I
Text Linguistics and Grammatical Problems
Chapter 1: English Sentences and Parts of Speech
Chapter 2: Text Linguistics
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The Seven Standards of Textuality......................................................................................
Cohesion.........................................................................................................................................
Coherence......................................................................................................................................
Intentionality and Acceptability..........................................................................................
Informativity................................................................................................................................
Situationality................................................................................................................................
Intertextuality..............................................................................................................................
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Elementi di Glottodidattica
Examples of Literary Text
— Questions About Passages
— Exercises
A Short Summary of the Most Common Approaches to Teaching English as a
Second Language
New Englishes
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1.English Sentences....................................................................................................................... Pag.
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Chapter 3: Grammatical Problems
1. Adjectives and Adverbs............................................................................................................ Pag. 39
2. Agreement of Subject and Predicate Verb....................................................................... »
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3. Idiomatic Use of Conjunctions and Prepositions.......................................................... »
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Grammatica di base della lingua inglese
L’importanza delle competenze linguistiche
Book II
English History and Literature
Section A
From the Origins to the Age of Enlightenment
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Historical Context: Ancient Times of Britain
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The Celtic Tribes.........................................................................................................................
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Historical Context: The Growth of Feudalism in the Middle Ages
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Historical Context: The Decline of Feudalism in the Middle Ages
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1. Geoffrey Chaucer........................................................................................................................
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Chapter 4
Historical Context: The Rise of the Middle class
Literary Context: The Barren Age.................................................................................. Chapter 5
Historical Context: The Reformation in England
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Historical Context: The Elizabethan Age
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1.Edmund Spenser........................................................................................................................
1.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 1.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 2. Philip Sidney.................................................................................................................................
2.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 2.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 3. Thomas Kyd..................................................................................................................................
3.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 3.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 4. Christopher Marlowe................................................................................................................
4.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 4.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 5. William Shakespeare................................................................................................................
5.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 5.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 6. Ben Jonson.....................................................................................................................................
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Historical Context: The English Revolution
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Historical Context: The Restoration
Literary Context: The Age of Dryden........................................................................... 1. Poetry..............................................................................................................................................
2. Prose................................................................................................................................................
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Historical Context: Whig England
Literary Context: The Augustan Age............................................................................. 1. Poetry..............................................................................................................................................
2. Prose................................................................................................................................................
2.1 The Rise of Journalism................................................................................................ 2.2 The Rise of the English Novel.................................................................................. 2.3 Criticism and Biography............................................................................................ 3. Drama..............................................................................................................................................
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1. Alexander Pope........................................................................................................................... Pag. 119
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2. Daniel Defoe................................................................................................................................. » 121
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4. Samuel Richardson.................................................................................................................... » 127
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Section A - Glossary
Section B
From the Early Romanticism to the Modern Times
Chapter 1
Historical Context: The American Revolution
1. The Reign of George III............................................................................................................
2. The Ascent of William Pitt the Younger............................................................................
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1.1 A General Survey........................................................................................................... 1.2 Two Generations of Great Poets............................................................................. 1.3Minor Poets..................................................................................................................... 2. Prose................................................................................................................................................
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1. William Wordsworth................................................................................................................
1.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 1.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.........................................................................................................
2.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 2.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 3. George Gordon Byron...............................................................................................................
3.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 3.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 4. Percy Bysshe Shelley.................................................................................................................
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Historical Context: The Industrial Revolution
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Chapter 3
Historical Context: The Victorian Age
1. The Reign of Queen Victoria.................................................................................................. Pag. 181
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3. The Second Half of the Century............................................................................................ » 182
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1.1 A Link Between Romantics and Modernists..................................................... 1.2 The Pre-Raphaelites.................................................................................................... 2. Prose................................................................................................................................................
2.1 The Oxford Movement................................................................................................ 2.2 The Aestheticism........................................................................................................... 2.3 Fiction................................................................................................................................ 536
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1.Alfred Tennyson..........................................................................................................................
1.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 1.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 2.Robert Browning........................................................................................................................
2.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 2.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 3.Elizabeth Barrett Browning...................................................................................................
3.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 3.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 4.Dante Gabriel Rossetti..............................................................................................................
4.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 4.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 5.William Morris............................................................................................................................
5.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 5.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 6.Charles Dickens...........................................................................................................................
6.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 6.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 7.William Makepeace Thackeray.............................................................................................
7.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 7.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 8.The Brontës (Charlotte, Emily, Anne).................................................................................
8.1 Life....................................................................................................................................... 8.2 Works................................................................................................................................. 9.George Eliot..................................................................................................................................
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Chapter 4
Historical Context: Before, During and After First World War
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The First World War.................................................................................................................
The Irish Question.....................................................................................................................
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Literary Context: The First Half of the 20th Century............................. 1. Poetry..............................................................................................................................................
1.1 Georgian Poetry............................................................................................................. 1.2 War Poetry....................................................................................................................... 1.3 The Imagism................................................................................................................... 1.4 Left-Wing Realistic Poets........................................................................................... 2. Prose................................................................................................................................................
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1.Thomas Carlyle............................................................................................................................ Pag. 210
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3.Benjamin Disraeli....................................................................................................................... » 211
4.Edward Fitzgerald...................................................................................................................... » 211
5.Elizabeth Gaskell........................................................................................................................ » 211
6.Charles Reade.............................................................................................................................. » 212
7.Anthony Trollope....................................................................................................................... » 212
8.Arthur Hugh Clough.................................................................................................................. » 213
9.Charles Kingsley......................................................................................................................... » 213
10.John Ruskin................................................................................................................................... » 213
11.Matthew Arnold.......................................................................................................................... » 214
12.Coventry Patmore...................................................................................................................... » 214
13.Wilkie Colins................................................................................................................................. » 215
14.George Meredith......................................................................................................................... » 215
15.Christina Georgina Rossetti................................................................................................... » 216
16.Lewis Carroll................................................................................................................................ » 216
17.James Thomson........................................................................................................................... » 217
18.Algernon Charles Swinburne................................................................................................ » 217
19.Walter Pater.................................................................................................................................. » 217
20.Thomas Hardy............................................................................................................................. » 218
21.Gerard Manley Hopkins........................................................................................................... » 218
22.Robert Louis Stevenson........................................................................................................... » 219
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1. Thomas Stearns Eliot................................................................................................................ Pag. 229
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2. Joseph Conrad.............................................................................................................................. » 233
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3. James Joyce.................................................................................................................................... » 236
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4. Virginia Woolf.............................................................................................................................. » 239
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5. David Herbert Lawrence......................................................................................................... » 241
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1.Henry James.................................................................................................................................
2.George Bernard Shaw...............................................................................................................
3.William Butler Yeats..................................................................................................................
4.Rudyard Kipling..........................................................................................................................
5.Ford Madox Ford........................................................................................................................
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7.Edward Morgan Forster..........................................................................................................
8.Aldous Leonard Huxley...........................................................................................................
9.Evelyn Arthur Waugh...............................................................................................................
10.George Orwell..............................................................................................................................
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Historical Context: From the Second World War to the End of
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Literary Context: The Second Half of the 20th Century - Anger,
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1.William Golding..........................................................................................................................
2.Lawrence Durrell........................................................................................................................
3.Angus Wilson...............................................................................................................................
4.Anthony Burgess........................................................................................................................
5.Muriel Spark.................................................................................................................................
6.Doris Lessing................................................................................................................................
7.Iris Murdoch.................................................................................................................................
8.Philip Larkin.................................................................................................................................
9.John Braine....................................................................................................................................
10.Kingsley Amis...............................................................................................................................
11.John Barrington Wain...............................................................................................................
12.Alan Sillitoe...................................................................................................................................
13.Thom Gunn...................................................................................................................................
14.Ted Hughes....................................................................................................................................
15.Harold Pinter................................................................................................................................
16.Tom Stoppard...............................................................................................................................
17.Ian McEwan..................................................................................................................................
18.Joanne Kathleen Rowling........................................................................................................
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Book III
Civilization
Chapter 1: Physical and Human Geography of the United Kingdom
1.The United Kingdom.................................................................................................................
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1. Samuel Beckett............................................................................................................................
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3.Climate............................................................................................................................................ » 279
4.Drainage......................................................................................................................................... » 279
5.Vegetation and Animal Life.................................................................................................... » 279
6.Resources....................................................................................................................................... » 280
7.The Arts.......................................................................................................................................... » 280
8.People.............................................................................................................................................. » 281
9.Languages...................................................................................................................................... » 281
10.Education....................................................................................................................................... » 282
11.Health.............................................................................................................................................. » 282
12.Religion........................................................................................................................................... » 282
13.Demography................................................................................................................................. » 283
14.Forestry and Fishing................................................................................................................. » 284
15.Transportation............................................................................................................................ » 284
16.Economy......................................................................................................................................... » 284
17.Trade................................................................................................................................................ » 285
18.Mining............................................................................................................................................. » 286
19.Agriculture.................................................................................................................................... » 286
20.Energy............................................................................................................................................. » 286
21.Taxation.......................................................................................................................................... » 287
22.Poverty............................................................................................................................................ » 287
23.Government.................................................................................................................................. » 287
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English Language Questions and Reading Comprehension
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Tests
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History, Literature and Civilization Questions
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Test 4.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 5.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 6.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 7.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 8.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 9.......................................................................................................................................................
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Test 10....................................................................................................................................................
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Part III
competenze linguistiche
Capitolo 1: Comprensione di brani
1. Tipologia di domande...............................................................................................................
2. Brani seguiti da domande con formulazione ampia...................................................
3. Brani seguiti da domande con formulazione stretta...................................................
Capitolo 2: Test di comprensione brani.................................................................
Capitolo 3: Test assegnati ai precedenti TFA....................................................
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Part IV
Official Tests for the Preliminary Round
of the Active Internship
Test 1: Academic Year 2011-2012.......................................................................................... Pag. 490
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Test 2: Academic Year 2014-2015..........................................................................................
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