LICEO SCIENTIFICO “CARLO CATTANEO” TORINO Anno scolastico 2015-2016 classe 4^E
Programma di lingua e letteratura inglese
Insegnante: Tosoratti Fulvia
Classe 4^E
LINGUA
a)
dal volume “Complete FIRST for School”; Cambridge University Press
b)
tutti gli esercizi e le attività delle unità 9-14 del libro (eccetto le speaking activities)
dal volume “First Practice Tests Plus 2”, ed. Pearson:
tutti gli esercizi dei test 1-5
LETTERATURA
c)
dal volume “Only Connect...New Directions” (ed blu) vol. 1
Modern Ballads, the ballad through centuries; Tudor Dynasty, Tudor society,
chain of being (main info); the sonnet, development of drama, the world of theatre, drama as a literary genre, features of a dramatic text.
Authors and texts: Shakespeare as a sonneteer: life and works, sonnets; detailed text analysis and commentary of the sonnets: “Shall I compare...” and
“My mistress’ eyes”.
Shakespeare the dramatist: the plays and the themes; Romeo and Juliet:
plot, characters and themes, text analysis and commentary of “the Balcony scene”; Hamlet: plot, characters and themes, text analysis and commentary of
“Hamlet meets the ghost” and of “To be or not to be”.
The beginning of the Stuart dynasty: James I. Macbeth: plot, characters and
themes, text analysis and commentary of “The three witches”, “Duncan’s murder” and “A tale told by an idiot “(lines 13-23).
Charles I’s reign, Civil war and Commonwealth: main info; the Puritan mind;
Journalism, the Rise of the Novel.
Authors and texts: Daniel Defoe (main info); “Robinson Crusoe”: plot, themes,
innovations; text analysis and commentary of “The island”.
Jonathan Swift (main info): “Gulliver’s Travels”: plot, themes, innovations.
Torino, 8 giugno 2016
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