Inglese - Liceo Scientifico Guido Castelnuovo

LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE
“GUIDO CASTELNUOVO”
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
CLASSE 4^ I
Prof. ssa Antonella Zecchi
a.s. 2014-2015
Ripasso dei libri letti durante le vacanze estive: J. Conrad, The Secret Sharer; Sir A.
Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, Hoepli.
Facendo riferimento al libro di testo Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Only Connect…, New
Directions, From the Origins to the Eighteenth Century, volume 1 e The Nineteenth
Century, volume 2, terza edizione, Zanichelli, sono stati svolti i seguenti argomenti, autori
e i testi indicati:
THE PURITAN AGE
Charles I’s reign
The Civil war and the Commonwealth
The Puritan mind
From celebration to introspection
Metaphysical poetry
JOHN DONNE
“Go and catch a falling star”
“Batter my heart”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
THE RESTORATION
Historical and social background
THE AUGUSTAN AGE
The early Hanoverians
Reason and sense
Artifice and real life: a survey of Augustan literature
Journalism
The rise of the novel
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
“Robinson Crusoe and empirical science”
“The Island”
“Evil vs Good”
“Man Friday”
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver’s Travels
“Swift’s moral satire in Gulliver’s Travels”
“Gulliver in the land of giants”
“The Laputians”
“Language reforms and new teaching methods”
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Pamela
“The rich despise the poor”
LAURENCE STERNE
Tristram Shandy
“When they begot me”
“The very place”
Miscellanea di brani da: Book V, Chapter II, Book VI, Chapter XL, Book VI, Chapter
XXXVIII, Book VIII, Chapter XIII, Book IX, Chapter IV su fotocopia
THE EARLY ROMANTIC AGE
Britain and America
Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions
Industrial Society
Emotion vs. Reason
Sublime
E. Burke, “On the Sublime”
New trends in Poetry
The Gothic novel
WILLIAM BLAKE
“Reading Blake: Contraries”
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
“Infant Joy”
“Infant Sorrow”
“London”
“The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
“Walton and Frankenstein”
“The Creation of the Monster”
“The Education of the Creature”
THE ROMANTIC AGE
The Egotistical Sublime
Reality and vision
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
“A certain colouring of Imagination”
“Daffodils”
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
“My Heart leaps up”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the ancient Mariner
“The killing of the albatross”
“Death and life-in-death”
“The Water-snakes”
“A sadder and wiser man”
Facendo riferimento al libro di testo Guy Brook-Hart, Complete First Certificate, Cambridge
University Press, sono state svolte le seguenti unità didattiche:
UNIT 10: Secrets of the mind
READING: The secrets of happiness
WRITING: One of the happiest day of my life
A day I will never forget
Organising ideas
USE OF ENGLISH: Questions practising expressions + verb + -ing
Modal verbs and reported speech
SPEAKING: Talking about things which make you happy
Speculating using vocabulary
VOCABULARY: Make, cause, have; stay, spend, pass
GRAMMAR: Modal verbs to express certainty and possibility
UNIT 11: Spend, spend, spend!
READING: Help! My daughter’s used my credit cards!
WRITING: Report on college improvements, report on improvements to your
neighbourhood
Making suggestions and recommendations
USE OF ENGLISH: Bargain hunters
SPEAKING: Talking with foreign visitors about shopping
Talking about teenagers spending and pocket money
Who does the shopping?
Speculating
VOCABULARY: Types of shop
Phrasal verbs
Words connected with money
GRAMMAR: Modals expressing ability
As and like
Look, seem, appear
UNIT 12: Staying healthy
READING: Problem school changes diet
WRITING: Essay about modern lifestyles and health
Essay on health and fitness
USE OF ENGLISH: Is there a doctor on board?
Negative prefixes
SPEAKING: Talking about what it means to be healthy
Discussing health issues
VOCABULARY: Words connected with health
Parts of the body
Medical vocabulary
GRAMMAR: Relative pronouns and relative clauses
Lettura del racconto di R. Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder”.
Per le vacanze estive sono stati assegnati i seguenti testi in lingua inglese in versione
integrale: O. Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest e G. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Agli alunni con sospensione del giudizio o che presentano ancora incertezze grammaticali
si consiglia il testo: Debra Owell, Elaine Walzer, Steve Elsworth, Grammar Practice, for
Upper-Intermediate students, with key, third edition, Longman.
Firenze, 5 giugno 2015
Gli studenti
L’insegnante
Antonella Zecchi
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