Istituto Superiore di Stato "Niccolò Machiavelli" The dynasty of

Istituto Superiore di Stato "Niccolò Machiavelli"
Materia: INGLESE
Docente: Prof.ssa Mirella MASINI
Programma
a.s. 2015-2016
Classe IV F
Dal libro di testo Performer, Culture and Literature , vol. 1 e 2,di Spiazzi e
Tavella, Zanichelli, sono stati trattati i seguenti argomenti di storia e
letteratura inglese:
Modulo 1°: The Puritan Age- The Restoration- The Augustan Age
(vol.1)
-The Puritan Age (Specification 5)
-The rise of Puritanism. Charles I. The Civil War. O. Cromwell and the
Commonwealth.
-The Restoration
-The Restoration of the monarchy. Charles II. The Royal Society.The
bubonic Plague and the Great Fire. The Glorious Revolution. The Reign of
Queen Anne and the Act of Union.
-The Augustan Age ( Specification 6)
-The historical, social and literary context
The dynasty of Hanover. The birth of political parties. The Whigs and the
Tories. The first Prime Ministers: Walpole and Pitt. English society in the
18th century. The enclosure system. The coffee-houses. A Golden Age :
Reason and Common Sense. Classicism and Rationalism.
The means for cultural debate - the Rise of Journalism:
the Tatler and the Spectator.
 The Rise of the Novel: main features. The reading public.
 The Realistic Novel: D. Defoe. Life, works, literary features
From “Robinson Crusoe”: “I was born of a good family”(photocopy)
“Man Friday” pp.169-170
Vision of the film “Cast Away”
 The Satirical Novel: S. Richardson. Life, works, literary features
From “Gulliver's Travels”: “Gulliver and the Lilliputians” pp.174-175
Modulo 2: the Early Romantic Age and The Romantic Age (vol.2)
Sottomodulo 2.1 The Early Romantic Age(Specification 7)
-The historical, social and literary context
An Age of Revolutions: Industrial and Agricultural revolutions. The
American War of Independence. E. Burke and the Sublime: a new
sensibility.
The Gothic Novel: M. Shelley: Life, works, literary features
From “Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus”:
“the Creation of the Monster” pp.205-206.
Vision of the film: “Frankenstein Junior”
Pre-romantic poetry: main features
W. Blake: Life, works, literary features
From Songs of Innocence: “The Chimney Sweeper” p.189
From Songs of Experience: “London” p. 188
Sottomodulo 2.2 The Romantic Age (Specification 8)
 The historical, social and literary context
English Romanticism: main features. Emotion vs Reason.
The language of the sense impressions.The Romantic Imagination.The
emphasis on the individual.
W. Wordsworth: Life, works, literary features
From “Poems in two Volumes”: “Daffodils” p. 218
“My heart leaps up” p. 219
S. T. Coleridge: Life, works, literary features
From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”:
“ The Killing of the Albatross” pp. 222-225 (Part 1:lines 1-82)
J. Keats: Life, works, literary features
A Sonnet: “Bright Star” p.235
The Napoleonic wars – Luddite riots- 'Peterloo Massacre'
Jane Austen and the theme of love: Life, works, literary features
From “Pride and Prejudice”: “Darcy proposes to Elizabeth” pp.243-245
La docente di conversazione ha infine utilizzato il libro di testo ” Performer
FCE Tutor”, essenziale per apprendere nuovo lessico e nuove funzioni
comunicative nonché per migliorare le abilità del 'listening' e dello
'speaking' (analisi di strutture morfosintattiche per il livello B2).
Anche con l'ausilio dell'insegnante di conversazione sono stati spiegati i
seguenti argomenti grammaticali relativi alle Unità (3-4-5-6) trattate nel
Performer:
-Present Perfect vs Past Simple
-Present perfect continuous with 'for' or 'since'
-Phrasal verbs: make and do
-Articles
-Question words
-Ways of expressing the future with time expressions: future simple, future
continuous, future perfect, 'going to' future, present continuous, present simple.
-Modals of obligation and necessity (have to/ must/need etc)
-Modals of ability and possibility (to be able, can/could, may/might etc)
-Negative prefixes(un- /in-/im-/dis- etc)
-Countable and uncountable nouns
-Quantifiers (a few, a little, a lot of, much and many etc)
- zero, first, second conditionals
-Comparatives and superlatives
In classe e nel laboratorio linguistico gli studenti hanno visto alcuni filmati
di civiltà ed attualità in lingua originale.
Hanno inoltre visto il film “The French Lieutenant's Woman” tratto dal
romanzo di J. Fowles ed il film “Far from Heaven” sul razzismo in America
negli anni '50.
Sono stati letti alcuni articoli di attualità tratti da giornali inglesi.
Infine la classe si è recata al teatro Orione per assistere all'opera teatrale in
lingua inglese “Pride and Prejudice” ispirata al celebre romanzo di Jane Austen.
L’insegnante
Roma, 1 giugno 2016
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