Liceo Scientifico “G. Brotzu” - Quartu Sant`Elena PROGRAMMA

Liceo Scientifico “G. Brotzu” - Quartu Sant’Elena
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO di LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 1^ C Liceo Scientifico
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
Dal libro di testo “Performer B1”1 sono stati trattati i seguenti argomenti:
Greetings and introductions
Talking about you and your family
Talking about nationality
Describing where you live
Talking about abilities
Writing an email about family
Build up to Performer
Simple Present (to be/ to have/ ordinary verbs);
Can/Can’t for ability; Can for permission
Possessive adjectives; Negatives/ Questions and
Short answers
This/That/These/Those; Wh -words; a/an or
any; There is/There are
Do/Does +base form;
Like +-ing form
Prepositions of place/time
Imperatives
Units 1-2-3-4-5-6
Describing a house
Planning a trip: accommodation
Daily routine
Meeting people
Hobbies and free time activities, sports
School: school clubs
Routines: talking about regular activities
An interview about a hobby
Free time: talking about likes and dislikes
Meeting up with friends
Email about your hobbies and interests
Food and drink
Quantities and containers
At a restaurant
Talking about activities happening now.
Saying what people are doing
Jobs for teen careers
A job interview
Talking about the past
Talking about dates of birth
Dates and ordinal numbers
Celebrations
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There is/ There are
Present simple: positive, negative, questions and
short answers; adverbs of frequency
Verbs of like and dislike+ ing;
Can for ability, permission and requests
Common verb phrases
Have breakfast/lunch/dinner
Countable and uncountable nouns
Some, any, no
How much, how many?
A lot of, much, many, a little, a few
Too much, too many,enough, not enough
Present continuous for activities happening now
Present simple vs. present continuous
Object pronouns
Past simple: be
Past simple: regular verbs
Past simple: irregular verbs
Past simple: can
Was/were born
L’insegnante
Carmela Cau
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 2C
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
Dal libro di testo “PERFORMER B1” MARINA SPIAZZI- MARINA TAVELLA sono stati
trattati i seguenti argomenti:
UNIT 6
Asking and giving personal information. Talking about past events.
Writing a composition. Making an interview.
Grammar: simple past (regular/irregular verbs).
UNIT 7
How to book a journey "The natural wonder of USA".
Grammar: simple past/past continuous
UNIT 8
Talking about profiles on social network
Text analysis:"A fashion Blogger". Shopping for clothes: role play. Text analysis on the passage
"Clothes"
Grammar: personality adjectives, comparative adjectives, superlative adjectives.
UNIT 9
Talking about the weather and the environment; talking about climate change.
Weather and climate in the USA and UK.
Grammar: be going to (future intentions); will: predictions and future facts.
UNIT 10
Talking about weekend arrangements; writing and talking about Entertainment; Music in UK and
USA.
Grammar: simple present vs present continuous (future); Will/ May/ Might.
UNIT11
Talking about relationships: "How to make friends"; " Two lives in the spotlight"
Poetry: Metaphors. W.H Auden ("Funeral Blues"). Text analysis
Grammar: simple past/ present perfect.
Gli alunni dovranno svolgere, oltre alle attività presenti nello “Student’s Book”, anche tutti gli
esercizi relativi alle singole Unità (6-7-8-9-10-11) dell’ “Workbook”
Quartu Sant’Elena, 10 giugno 2016
L’insegnante
Carmela Cau
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 2 SD
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
Dal libro di testo “PERFORMER B1” MARINA SPIAZZI- MARINA TAVELLA sono stati
trattati i seguenti argomenti:
UNIT 6
Asking and giving personal information. Talking about past events.
Writing a composition. Making an interview.
Grammar: simple past (regular/irregular verbs).
UNIT 7
How to book a journey "The natural wonder of USA".
Grammar: simple past/past continuous
UNIT 8
Talking about profiles on social network
Text analysis: "A fashion Blogger". Shopping for clothes: role- play. Text analysis on the passage
"Clothes"
Grammar: personality adjectives, comparative adjectives, superlative adjectives.
UNIT 9
Talking about the weather and the environment; talking about climate change.
Weather and climate in the USA and UK.
Grammar: be going to (future intentions); will: predictions and future facts.
UNIT 10
Talking about weekend arrangements; writing and talking about Entertainment; Music in UK and
USA.
Prose: understanding point of view. Summary of the novel" High Fidelity". "A night at the
club"(reading and oral report).
Grammar: simple present vs present continuous (future); Will/ May/ Might.
UNIT11
Talking about relationships: "How to make friends"; " Two lives in the spotlight"
Grammar: simple past/ present perfect.
Gli alunni dovranno svolgere, oltre alle attività presenti nello “Student’s Book”, anche tutti gli
esercizi relativi alle singole Unità (6-7-8-9-10-11) dello “Workbook”
Quartu Sant’Elena, 10 giugno 2016
L’insegnante
Carmela Cau
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 3a C Liceo Scientifico
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
CONTENUTI
Dal libro “Into English 2”
Unit 8
Describing quantity
Talking about the future: decisions, promises,
plans and intentions
present perfect/ present perfect
continuous
Units 9/ 10
Talking about unfinished situations
Talking about repetitio and continuation up to
now
Talking about music; habits
How to write a letter
From " Into English 2" Units 9/10 Revision:
determiners,
must/mustn't, don't have to.
Festivities: reading activities
History: The Origins
The Celts
Roman Britain
The Anglo- Saxons
The Viking attacks
The Norman Invasion
Too much, too many; not enough will
v.s be going to
Present perfect continuous
Present perfect simple vs. continuous
Talking about past habits
Talking about health
How to tell a story
How to write a composition
Phrasal verbs; Cohesive devices
Text taken from BBC news: “Austalia
frogs"could be wiped out by killer fungus (
Oral Report);
Migration to Europe: oral report. Summary
writing (Internet research)
Dal libro “Visions and Perpectives” 1
The Origins
Literature
The literary context: the evolution of the English
language
The epic poem
Beowulf: a national epic, monsters, dragons,
and heroes- reality and legend; the language, the
story.
The middle Ages
History
A war of succession
King John and the Magna Carta
The birth of Parliament
The Black death
The Wars of the Roses
Society: The three orders of medieval society
Literature
The Medieval Ballad
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales.
The Prioress (text analysis)
The rise of the theatre: miracle, mistery and
morality plays.
Chivalric romances
The legend of Robin Hood
The Renaissance
History
Literature
The Tudors
The English Renaissance
The years of revolution
The theatre
Henry VIII and the breach with Rome
The Sonnet
The English Reformation
Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 ( Text analysis)
Mary I, Elisabeth I, James I
Sonnet 18 ( Text analysis)
The Pilgrims Fathers
The world of drama
W. Shakespeare: life and works.
Science
Galileo Galilei
Shakespeare’s genius
Shakespeare’s career
Society
Love and marriage from the Renaissance to Shakespeare’s sonnets
Source and structure in Shakespeare’s plays
today.
Cultural issues: Illusion and Reality
Themes.
Literature and language: Living in Britain Romeo and Juliet: Plot and Themes; Macbeth:
during the renaissance
the plot, the protagonist, the other characters, the
three witches, themes and symbols;
Hamlet: plot, characters, themes.
L’insegnante
Quartu S. Elena, 10 Giugno 2016
Carmela Cau
Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore
Liceo Scientifico “G. Brotzu”
Quartu Sant’Elena CA)
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 4a C Liceo Scientifico
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
CONTENUTI
GENERAL ENGLISH
Dal libro “Into English” vol. 3
Back into English
Describing someone’s age
Past simple vs. past continuous
British vs. American English
Comparatives and superlatives
The environment
Ways of talking about the future
Homes
Question tags
Information technology
Present perfect simple with for and since
Medicine and health: Talking about old Present perfect continuous and present perfect
remedies.
simple
Used to
Present simple passive
Second conditional
Third conditional
Unit 10-11
Past simple vs present perfect simple
Defining relative clauses; To be used to; Say and tell
vocabulary and listening: medicine.
Story telling and writing
Connectors and phrasal verbs
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Dal libro di testo “Performer Culture and Literature” vol. 1-2
Elisabethan Age
The Golden Age
The theme of Love from Renaissance
to today
The British Monarchy
Elisabethan theatre
William Shakespeare
Life and works
The merchant of Venice: the plot.
Macbeth: plot, the protagonist, the other
characters,
themes and symbols; Text analysis
The poet, the comedian, the historian, the tragic
playwright
Sonnet 130 (text analysis).
Clil: geography
Great Britain, United Kingdom
Historical background
The Civil war
The Puritan Age
Cromwell
The Restoration and
the Augustan Age
Society
Reason and Common sense
Industrial society
Colonial aspiration
Economic individualism
The role of women in 18th century
Clil: geography
Travelling: travel experience
" Isla Robinson Crusoe”
Science
Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation
An Age of revolution
.
Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s reading public
Life and works
Robinson Crusoe: story, setting, characters,
narrator;
Extract from text one: text analysis
Cast away and Madagascar (watching and
listening activities)
The source of inspiration of Robinson Crusoe
The values in Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe’s realism
Defoe’s reading public
Life and works
Literature
The rise of the novel
The means of cultural debate: The
Coffee Houses.
The Arts
satire and social criticism
William Hogarth “Gin Lane”: text analysis
The satire in literature
Jonathan Swift
Life and works
Gulliver’s travels: the plot and themes.
Quartu Sant’Elena, 10 giugno 2016
L’insegnante
Carmela Cau
Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore
Liceo Scientifico “G. Brotzu”
Quartu Sant’Elena CA
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
LINGUA E CIVILTÀ INGLESE
Classe: 5a C Liceo Scientifico
Anno Scolastico: 2015/2016
Docente: Carmela Cau
Contenuti
THE XIX CENTURY
The Romantic Movement: main features
Romanticism vs Enlightment
Romantic Poetry
Thematic areas: Nature, Childhood
Literature of the Victorian age
Thematic areas: Children and society
Appearance and Reality
William Wordsworth: life, works and
main features.
"Daffodils": comment and analysis.
S.T. Coleridge: life, works and main
features: Imagination, nature and the task
of the poet.
“The rime of the ancient mariner”
structure, themes and features (Text one)
C. Dickens: .Life and works;
"Coketown"(extract)
.
The Victorian compromise
.
THE EARLY XX CENTURY
W.Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est (extract)
The Context: History: World war 1
The modernist novel: Stream of
consciousness: V. Woolf/ J. Joyce.
Thematic areas: War, Man and Nature
V. Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (Film Viewing )
Introduction to American Literature
The beginning of American identity;
The pioneers and the American frontier
The USA in the 20Th century
Hemingway: “Farewell to Arms” "There is
nothing worse than war"( Text analysis)
F.S.Fitzgerald: the writer of Jazz
Age: “The Great Gastby”
The American Dream
Film Viewing: "The Great Gatsby"
The Great Depression.
Frank McCourt and the experience of
poverty "Angela's Ashes" (Text analysis)
Fighting poverty and hunger
John Steinbeck: writing about the Great
Depression ( The Grapes of Wrath) Text
analysis
THE SECOND PART OF THE XX CENTURY
20th century literature: Modernism/ Post Modernism G. Orwell: life, the artist's development,
From 1930 to 1950's, World war 2
social themes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (The story): A
Tradition, New Trends and Post- Modernism
dystopian novel.
Quartu Sant’Elena, 10 giugno 2016
L'insegnante
Carmela Cau