INGLESE IV A
DOCENTE: GIOVANNA FOSCHINI
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO NELLA CLASSE IV SEZ: A
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2014-2015
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:
“ A Valediction :Forbidding Mourning”. John
Milton: “Satan’s Speech”.
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’.
THE ROMANTIC AGE
History: A time of ferment; the Hanoverian kings;
The American War of Independence; Effects of
The French Revolution; the Napoleonic Wars; The
Industrial Revolution; Reform and Repression; the
Reform Bill.
Society: The meaning of Romanticism; The
Romantic movement in Europe; Pre-Romanticism
In England: a new sensibility; Gothic; The English
Romantics; A new response to Nature; Te Sublime;
Reactions to political revolutions; Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin and the women’s right;
Alternative worlds; Italy trough Romantic English
Eyes; The artist and the power of imagination; new
Developments in poetry; Romantic writers versus
Augustan writers.
Genre File: Romantic Poetry; Gothic Fiction.
MARY SHELLEY
“ Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus”: The
Creature comes to life”.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
“ Daffodils”.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Life and achievements.
Testi usati: CONTINUITIES 1 e 2 D. Heaney, D. Montanari, R.A.Rizzo ed. LANG
GRAMMAR
UNIT 4 : “ Eco-teens go green “: vocabulary: the environment; Word formation: nouns with –ion, ment, -ance; verbs and prases with prepositions; grammar: conditionals.
UNIT 5 : “ Aim for the stars” : vocabulary: achievements; Word formation: adjective suffixes;
some phrasal verbs; grammar: Present perfect simple and continuous; past simple.
Testo usato : COSMIC B 1 Roderick-finnie. Ed Pearson Longman.
Dal libro di grammatica sono state studiate le if sentences, la forma passiva e il discorso indiretto.
Testo usato: Activating Grammar Gallagher Galuzzi. Ed Pearson Longman
NAPOLI 26-05-2015
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