LICEO SCIENTIFICO ‘RENATO CACCIOPPOLI’
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO NELLA CLASSE IV SEZ: A
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2011-2012
MATERIA INGLESE
DOCENTE: GIOVANNA FOSCHINI
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 Shakespearian sonnet: ‘Shall I compare thee to a
Summer’s day?’
THE PURITAN AGE :
Literature. Metaphysical poetry :John Donne
John Milton : Paradise Lost.
THE AUGUSTAN AGE :
(the 18th century)
History; Culture and society; Literature :Journalism
and Novel.
Dal libro di testo: CONTINUITIES 1 D. Heaney, D. Montanari, R.A.Rizzo ed. LANG
GRAMMAR
UNIT 1 : EXPRESS YOURSELF: perfect tenses; vocabulary: describing a person; adjectives in –
ed and in –ing; adjective suffixes; writing a biography.
UNIT 2 : TELL THE TRUTH: modals and modal perfects; vocabulary: TV programmes; verbs
and prepositions; compound adjectives; writing an opinion essay.
UNIT 3 : SURVIVING SCHOOL: reported speech; vocabulary: the ideal school; more adjective
suffixes; compound nouns; writing a for and against essay.
UNIT 4 : IDENTITY CRISIS :defining and non-defining relative clauses; vocabulary: feelings;
some phrasal verbs; too/enough.
Dal libro di testo: CHALLENGES (Intermediate). A. Williams, J: Lawrence. Ed. LE MONNIER,
BURLINGTON BOOKS
LA DOCENTE
GIOVANNA FOSCHINI
