LICEO SCIENTIFICO `RENATO CACCIOPPOLI`

III B
DOCENTE: DANIELA SIMEONI
MATERIA: INGLESE
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO NELLA CLASSE III SEZ. B
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015-2016
LETTERATURA
THE BIRTH OF THE NATION :
The Anglo-Saxon Age
DEVELOPING SOCIETY
The Middle Ages
A CULTURAL AWAKENING
The Renaissance
Meet the Celts. Roman Britain. The Anglo- Saxons.
The epic poem. Beowulf: a national epic.
The Norman invasion.
A war of succession. King
John and the Magna Carta. Medieval outlaws. The
Medieval ballad: Bonny Barbara Allen
Main features. The birth of Parliament. The three
Orders of medieval society. Geoffrey Chaucer’s
Portrait of English society: The Canterbury Tales.
The war of the Roses
Meet the Tudors. Elizabethan entertainment
The English Renaissance
The English and the Italian Sonnet
“I find no peace”
“My Mistress’ eyes”
King by divine right
The Gunpowder plot
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
England’s genius
Life and works
Shakespeare’s London
The structure of theatres- the audiences
Literary techniques: dialogue, monologue,
Soliloquy,aside, stage directions
Comedy and Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet: “Two Households”
Macbeth: “Duncan’s murder”
Othello: “Iago’s jealousy”
Testo usato: PERFORMER CULTURE & LITERATURE 1. Spiazzi-Tavella Layton.
Ed Zanichelli.
LANGUAGE
UNIT 1: ‘Who do you think you are’: vocabulary: personality and character; grammar: present
simple, present continuous, stative verbs. Writing: descriptive article.
UNIT 2 : ‘Days to remember”: vocabulary: life experiences; grammar: past simple, past
continuous; used to/would. Reading: Becoming an adult is never easy
UNIT 3 : “Facts or fiction? “ vocabulary: stories; reading: Freeze time; grammar: present perfect
simple and continuous, connecting words; writing a story
UNIT 4 : “The world’s your oyster” vocabulary: transport; reading: The big apple; grammar: the
future, British and American English
Dal libro di testo : COSMIC B1+. Fiona Beddal Ed Pearson Longman.
GRAMMAR
Pronomi relativi, Il future, duration form, verbi modali, periodo ipotetico di 1, 2, e 3 tipo
Dal libro di testo: The complete English grammar ed Oxford
Napoli, 31-05-2016
LA DOCENTE
Daniela Simeoni
GLI ALLIEVI