PROGRAMMA LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE- CLASSE III B

The Origins and the Middle Ages

From Pre-Celtic to Roman Britain

The Angle-Saxons and the Vikings

The Norman Conquest and the Domesday Book

Anarchy and Henry Plantagenet

From Magna Carta to the Peasants’ Revolt

The Wars of the Roses

CLIL Art : Norman and Gothic cathedrals

The Portrait : Richard III

Literature and Genres:

The development of poetry

The pagan epic poem

The medieval ballad

The medieval narrative poem

Authors and Texts:

Beowulf : a national epic

From Beowulf :

The hero comes to Heorot

Beowulf’s death

Across Cultures : The Monster

Medieval ballad : Lord Randal

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

From The Canterbury Tales :

The Prologue

The Prioress

Topic 1

Magna Carta and the fight for human rights

Magna Carta as a source of liberty

J. Wycliffe

Towards B2 :

Reading : John Wycliffe and a linguistic revolution

Listening : The Black Death

The Renaissance

The early Tudors

Henry VII

Henry VIII

Edward VI

Mary I

Elizabeth I

CLIL Art: Portraying power

Renaissance and New Learning

The chain of being

Humanism in a changing world

English/Italian Renaissance

Literature and Genres

The sonnet

The development of drama

Poetry in the Elizabethan Age :

Sir P. Sidney : Come Sleep

E. Spenser : One day I wrote her name ...

W. Shakespeare : Shall I compare thee..

Drama in the Elizabethan Age :

C. Marlowe : life and works- Features and themes

From Doctor Faustus : Faustus’s Last Hour

From : Performer First Tutor

Reading :

Unit 1:

New Epic Heroes

Real vs Virtual

The Harry Potter Phenomenon

Teens too can be heroes

A Video Game Hero : Gordon Freeman

Unit 2

Jobs

Living with danger

Not always famous

My First Part-Time Job

Unit 3

Free Time

Unusual hobbies

Does ideal love still exist?

Teen Hobbies

Unit 4

Learning

Who will be the next Shakespeare?

How does our language shape the way we think?

Child Prodigies

Unit 5

Life styles

Are we becoming too Puritan about our lifestyles?

Attitudes to food in a changing world

Can we be allergic to food?

Fitness for free

Listening

Units : 1-2-3-4-5

Revisione grammaticale :

Present Simple and Present Continuous; Dynamic and Stative Verbs ; Present Perfect;

Present Perfect with adverbs of time; Been and Gone; Past Simple and Past

Continuous; Past Simple and Past Perfect; Used to and Would; Present Perfect and

Past Simple; Present Perfect Continuous; For and Since; Articles; Uses of articles;

Future Tenses; Future Continuous and Future Perfect; The Future with time clauses;

Time expressions with prepositions; Modals of obligation and necessity; Modals of

ability and possibility; Countable and uncountable nouns.

L’insegnante Gli studenti