4M Inglese Prof Paola Tonini as 2015-16

4M Inglese Prof Paola Tonini
as 2015-16 - programma
Libri di testo:
Only connect new directions vol 1, Success upper intermediate
The Renaissance, historical and social background, the new Learning, the Humanism, the English dinasty:
the Tudors, new colonial expansion, the drama and the prose.
William Shakespeare
Il teatro di Shakespeare:
Hamlet
Lettura ed analisi completa del testo.
Macbeth
Lettura ed analisi completa del testo.
The tempest (extracts)
The Puritan age, the civil war, Cromwell and Charles I
John Milton 1608-1674
Aeropagitica: books are not dead things
Paradise Lost:the prologue and the invocation to the Muse, Satan’s speech,
The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution 1688.
The Reason Age,Science and Literature, The Journalism, the diary, the rise of the novel and of the middle
class, the new scientific discoveries.
The Neoclassicism and The Augustan Age,from the Empirical philosophy to the concept of Reason
Wit,irony and satire, elegance and logics.
the Royal Society, the laws of the universe.
Prose:
The journal and the diary.
Daniel Defoe 1660-1731
Robinson Crusoe texts: the island, evil vs good, man friday
Moll Flanders text
The explorer, the first example of capitalism, the religious issue, the master and the servant.
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Gulliver’s travels texts: Gulliver in the land of giants, the Laputians
The extravagant novel, the use of fantastic
Samuel Richardson 1689-1761
Pamela: one extract
The Epistolary novel, scandal and respectability, the difficulty of being virtuous.
Success: Units 7 8 9 10 11
Listenings: tutti gli ascolti relativi alle units.
Reading: Culture clash, mobile phones, Frank Abbagnale, places and people, No place like home., a clue.
Writing: for and against essays, summaries, description of a memorable place.
Revisione di argomenti grammaticali: Reported speech, passive, I wish, if only, if clauses, relative clauses
defining and non defining.
Progetti:
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Flipclass: see a movie and report about it: Amazing grace, Mr Robinson
Let’s see a video: the heroes of Enlightenment, bbc an 86 year old Robinson.
Let’s read an article: from The New YorkTimes : The nihilism of radical Islam, the explorers.
Let’s have a round table about a topic: Shakespeare’s tragedies.
L’insegnante
Roma,
Gli alunni