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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2014/2015
CLASSE 2^
SEZ. B
PROF.
SIRA MANDALA’
MATERIA
LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
Udine, lì 11 GIUGNO 2015
Il Docente
Dal testo New English File Intermediate, ed. Oxford:
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UDA 1, settembre – novembre 2014
File 7
A
Can we make our own luck?
B
Murder Mysteries
C
Phrasal verbs
PRACTICAL ENGLISH
REVISE AND CHECK
READING/LISTENING: Luck, from www.newsenglishlessons.com
READING/SPEAKING: a Tale of Two Pebbles, A Lesson on Lateral
LISTENING: The Most Dangerouos Day, Speak Up Sept. 2014
GRAMMAR:
Thinking by Edward De Bono
o Wishes and regrets, practice from www.ego4u.com, www.englishpage.com
o Phrasal verbs from www.englishandfun.com/Phrasalverbs.pdf
File 6
A
Love in the supermarket (reported speech: statements, questions and commands)
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS: Reporting, Power Point presentation*
THE FILM: The Blues Brothers by Jonh Landis 1980. Reporting dialogues
practicing introductory verbs.
from the opening scenes;
UDA 2, dicembre 2014 – gennaio 2015
File 6
B
See the film, get on a plane (revision of the passive voice)
C
I need a hero (revision of relative clauses relative clauses, defining and non-defining)
PRACTICAL ENGLISH
WRITING
REVISE AND CHECK
GRAMMAR:
o double-object verbs; It is said that he is …He is said to be; causative form: to have something
done
o revision of identifying/non-identifying relative clauses
LISTENING:
o Academy Awards for White Men Only, from www.breakingnewsenglish.com
o On Being a Basterd, from SpeakUp-October 2009
INFORMATIVE READING: Headlines, Power Point presentation*
UDA 3, febbraio – aprile 2015
File 5
C
Slow down, you move too fast (revision of quantifiers and noun formation)
B
Same Planet, different worlds (articles: a/an, the, no article)
A
Job swaps (gerunds and infinitives)
LISTENING:
o From Slow Food to Slow Town, from Speak Up- September 2012
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o Working Harder Than Ever, from Speak Up- October 2004
GRAMMAR:
o Make/let/get/have someone (to) do something, practice from www.englisch-hilfen.de
o Have something done, practice from www.englisch-hilfen.de
o Verbs followed by infinitive/base form/-ing form, , practice from www.ego4u.com
INFORMATIVE READING: various articles and features from The Econmomist, The Guardian, Time and
Newsweek online
Gli studenti hanno svolto le attività previste dal Workbook relative alle unità analizzate. Ulteriori
approfondimenti, esercitazioni o integrazioni alle funzioni linguistiche analizzate e relativi esponenti
grammaticali e lessicali sono stati tratti dalla grammatica di riferimento in possesso degli studenti
Working with Grammar-Gold, ed. Longman o da siti didattici Internet.
GRAMMAR EXPONENTS
If-clause type 3
Constructions with wish
Phrasal verbs
Making adjectives and adverbs
Question tags
Indirect speech
Make/get/have/let someone do/to do something
Passive voice
Identifying / non-identifying relative clauses
Gerunds and infinitives
Articles: a/an, the, zero article
Quantifiers (revision)
LEXICAL AREAS
Television and electronic gadgets
Phrasal verbs
Compound nouns
Films and show business
What people do
Suffixes related to people’s jobs
Work
Verbs and adjectives+prepositions
Noun formation (revision)
COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS
Making speculations and hypotheses
Expressing wishes and regrets
Discussing a problem
Reporting and referring statements, questions and commands
Complaining
Asking someone to do something
Describing a film
Describing a person you admire
Defining
Dal testo Continuities - Volume 1, ed. LANG:
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UDA 1, settembre – novembre 2014
THE RENAISSANCE AND THE PURITAN SPIRIT
THE BIG PICTURE
Historical Background
Society and Letters
Genre File
Charles Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare - Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, from www.sparknotes.com – No Fear Shakespeare:
o The Prologue
o Queen Mab (Act I, scene IV)
o The language of love (Act I, scene V)
o The balcony scene*(Act II, scene II)
THE FILM: clips from Romeo + Juliet by Buz Luhrmann, 1996
THEMES, MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS: The forcefulness of love; Love
as a cause of violence; The Individual
vs society; The inevitability of fate; Light/dark imagery; Opposite points of view; Poison; Thumb
biting; Queen Mab.
THE DOCUMENT: Cecil Clough. the true story behind Romeo and Juliet (hints)
THE SONG: Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits
Drama workshop on Romeo and Juliet with actor and director Brian Ayres on December 2, 2014
William Shakespeare
Macbeth from www.sparknotes.com – No Fear Shakespeare*:
o Fair and Foul, from Act I - scene I
o All hail, Macbeth and Banquo!, from Act I – scene III
o Macbeth’s letter, from Act I – scene V
UDA 2, dicembre 2014 - febbraio 2015
William Shakespeare
Macbeth* from www.sparknotes.com - No Fear Shakespeare*
o The raven himself is hoarse, from Act 1 – scene V
o I Have Done the Deed, from Act II – scene II
o Until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall Come Against Him, from Act IV - scene I
o Sleep walking, from Act V – scene I
o Throw physic to the dogs, from Act V – scene III
o I Have Almost Forgot the Taste of Fears, from Act V – scene V
THE IMAGE: Füssli, Lady Macbeth seizes the daggers
THE FILM: clips from Macbeth by Roman Polanski, 1971
THEMES: Nature and the distortion of the natural order, Order/
disorder, Good/ evil, Appearance/
reality, Evil and ambition, Violence and tyranny, Madness, guilt and conscience, Destiny and free will,
Manliness and womanhood.
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IMAGERY: darkness, light, sleep, blood, disease, children feasting and hospitality, consciousness and
the subconscious.
Charles Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare - Excerpts from Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Power Point presentation*
navigators.com/hamlet/H11.html)
(scene
selection
from
http://www.shakespeare-
ACT I
scene 1 (Enter Barnardo and Francisco – two sentinels)
scene 2 (But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son)
scene 5 (Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I’ll go no further; ... an antic disposition on)
ACT 2
Scene 2 (More matter, with less art )
ACT 3
scene 1 (To be or not to be)
scene 1 (But yet do I believe the origin and commencement of this grief sprung from neglected love )
scene 2 (Good my lord, How does your honor for this many a day?)
THEMES: spotlight on the supernatural, appearance vs reality, revenge, delay, misogyny, melancholy
and madness, the Oedipus complex, Ophelia and Hamlet.
THE FILM: Hamlet, by F. Zeffirelli
THE IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Ophelia (flowers symbology)
THE SONG: Ofelia, by Francesco Guccini
Individual students’ research work on the Elisabethan theatre, S. Freud’s Some Character-types Met
With In Psycho-analytical Work (1916), On the Knocking on the Gate in Macbeth by T. De Quincey,Shakespeare in pop culture.
UDA 3, febbraio – marzo 2015
Christopher Marlowe, Life and Works, Power Point presentation*
Doctor Faustus, Power Point presentation* (Act I scene I and III, Act III, Act V scene IV-Finale)
THEMES: Human ambition; the sin of despair
ECHOES: The Faustian myth in the visual arts,
music, literature, pop culture, Power Point presentation*
A CHANGE IN SENSIBILITY - Metaphysical Poetry, Power Point presentation*
o Definition of metaphysical poem
o Exemplifications
o To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, ‘Had we but world enough, and time’
COMPARING LITERATURES:
“Di doman non c’è certezza”, by Lorenzo de’ Medici (hints)
John Donne
from Songs and Sonnets:‘This Flea Is You and I’
from Holy Sonnets: ‘Death, Be not Proud’
John Milton
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Paradise Lost, ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n’
THE PICTURE:
Satan’s Fall in the visual arts, Power Point presentation*
UDA 4, aprile – maggio 2015
Dal testo Continuities - Volume 1, ed. LANG:
LITERARY GENRES
Fiction, Power Point presentation*:
o Fiction and non-fiction
o Distinctive Features of novels and short stories (narrative technique, mode of narration, characters, setting, point of view, story and plot, conflict etc.)
o Start in Life, from Robinson Crusoe – from Chapter I (linear plot)
o LISTENING: Genesis and Catastophe by Roald Dahl (story and plot)
o Lost in the Crowd, from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger (characterization and setting)
o Mr Bounderby from Hard Times by C. Dickens, from book I ch. IV – book III ch. III (characterization)
o The Sentry Fredric Brown (point of view and setting)
o Interior monologue and narrative technique
o Bond Street from Mrs Dalloway by V. Woolf (narrative technique and mode of narration)
o Episode 18 - Penelope from Ulysses by J. Joyce (narrative technique and mode of narration)
THE RESTORATION AND THE AUGUSTAN AGE
Short introduction to society and culture.
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, Power Point presentation*:
o The two sides of the coin, from chapter 7
o He was a comely handsome fellow, from chapter 14
THEMES: The pursuit of realism, The mindful and reasonable man, The middle state, The self-made
man, Capitalism, Colonialism, The Spiritual Journey and the Puritan path.
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders, Power Point presentation*:
The Child’s Necklace, from chapters 38-39-45
THEMES:
“Give me no poverty lest I steal”- the urban jungle; morals and money.
Samuel Richardson
Pamela, Power Point presentation*, letter XXV “A sad, sad scene”
THEMES: Sexual morality, virtue rewarded
ECHOES: Shamela, by H. Fielding, a parody
(hints)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Power Point presentation*:
o Glimpses of wonderful lands (Lilliput, Blefuscu, Laputa, Brobdingnag)
o The land of the Houyhnhnms (hints)
o Chapter XII, “A crew of pyrates are driven by a storm…”
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THEMES:
Satire and misanthropy, The age of reason and science, English colonial expansion.
Laurence Sterne
Tristam Shandy (the book at a glance)
THE THEME:
The novel and the anti-novel, modern narrative forerunning.
*I testi contrassegnati da asterisco sono forniti dall’insegnante.
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