LICEO SCIENTIFICO DELFICO
PROGRAMMA INGLESE
CLASSE IV B anno sc. 2015-2016
Prof.ssa Faina Cristina
Il libro di testo adottato nell'anno scolastico 2015/ 2016 è PERFORMER Culture & Literature 1
PERFORMER Culture & Literature 2 Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavelli, Margaret Layton,
Editore Zanichelli
HISTORY:
The Civil war: The Royalists-cavaliers and the Parliamentarians-Roundheads. Oliver Cromwell.
The scientific revolution: new scientific methods. The Restoration of the monarchy. The birth of the
political parties: The Tories and the Whigs. The Golden Age: the 18th century. An age of
revolutions. The industrial society. The consequences of the industrial revolution.
LITERATURE:
William Shakespeare
The actor and the playwright, The language genius, The poet, the comedian, the historian. The
tragic Playwright.
The structure of Elizabethan playhouses. The differences between modern theatres and Elizabethan
theatres.
Romeo and Juliet: the plot, themes. Comprehension and analysis: Two Households, Prologue. The
Ball, Act I, Scene V. With a kiss I die, Act V, Scene III.
Macbeth: the plot, themes. . Comprehension and analysis: The threee witches , Act I, Scene I.
Duncan’s murder, Act II, Scene II. Macbeth’s last monologue, Act V, Scene V.
Hamlet: The plot, themes. Comprehension and analysis: To be or not to be, Act III, Scene I.
John Milton
Paradise Lost: a religious epic poem, the story. The universe of Paradise Lost. Satana as an epic
hero. Comprehension and analysis: Satan’s speech, Book I, lines 242-270. Satan in Milton and
Dante.
William Hogarth
Analysis of the painting: Gin Lane. Satire and social criticism.
Joseph Addison
The Spectator. Reading: The Spectator, N°1, March I, 1711. Comparing two newspapers: Il Caffe’
and The Spectator.
Daniel Defoe
The rise of the novel. The 18th century novel: features. The realistic novel. Defoe’s life. Robinson
Crusoe: The story. The new middle-class hero. A spiritual autobiography. The island and the
individual. Comprehension and analysis: The Journal,Chapter V; Man Friday, Chapter 14.
Jonathan Swift
Swift’s life. The satirical novel. Gulliver’s Travels: The story. The sources. The character of
Gulliver. Comprehension and analysis: Gulliver and the Lilliputians, Book I, Chapter2.
William Blake
Blake’s life. The artist, the poet, the prophet. Complementary opposites. Immagination and style.
Comprehension and analysis: The Lamb, Songs of Innocence; The Tyger, Songs of Experience.
Mary Shelley
The Gothic novel: features. Frankestein: the story. Reading Comprehension : The creation of a
monster.
GRAMMAR AND USE OF ENGLISH
Uso di strutture più complesse conformi al livello B1-B2 del Quadro Comune di riferimento
europeo.
Teramo, 06/06/2016
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