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