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INGLESE Doc. GIOVANNA FOSCHINI
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO NELLA CLASSE IV SEZ: A
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2013-2014
LETTERATURA
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE :
History: the Tudors and the Stuarts; the Reformation.
Tudor and Stuart society. Culture in the Renaissance.
Prose. Drama : the world of theatre. Drama as a
Literary genre; the features of a dramatic text.
William Shakespeare the dramatist. Romeo and Juliet:
The Prologue; ‘Too like the lightning’.
Macbeth: The Three Witches; ‘ Duncan’s murder’.
THE PURITAN AGE :
Literature. Metaphysical poetry :John Donne
John Milton : Paradise Lost.
THE AUGUSTAN AGE :
(the 18th century)
History: the Restoration; the Glorious Revolution;
Queen Ann; the House of Hanover; Parliamentary
Politics; Rule Britannia.
Society and Letters: The Merry Monarch; the Great
Fire of London; Industrialization: from water
Power to steam power; Science and the Royal
Society; the Reasonable Man; the New Reading
Public and the origins of Journalism; the Rise of
Novel; the Role of the Writer; Drama, Poetry.
DANIEL DEFOE:
‘Robinson Crusoe’: ‘A middle –class Adventurer.
JONATHAN SWIFT:
‘Gulliver’s Travels’: ‘Mad Scientists’.
Dal libro di testo: CONTINUITIES 1 D. Heaney, D. Montanari, R.A.Rizzo ed. LANG
GRAMMAR
UNIT 5 : OUR CHANGING WORLD : Future forms; may, might, could; grammar: suffixes e
prefixes.
UNIT 6 : WHAT MATTERS TO ME: Information questions; -ed e –ing adjectives; compound
adjectives
UNIT 7 : PASSIONS AND FASHIONS : Present perfect tenses.
Dal libro di testo: HEADWAY DIGITAL Intermediate, Liz and Joan Soars. Ed. Oxford.
Dal libro di grammatica sono state studiate le relative clauses, le if sentences, la forma passiva e il
discorso indiretto.
NAPOLI 26-05-2014
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GIOVANNA FOSCHINI
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