Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. ROMITA” - CAMPOBASSO

Anno Scolastico 2020/2021

Programma di Lingua e Cultura Inglese

Svolto nella classe IV sezione C

Docente Maria SANTOIANNI

Dal testo: TIME MACHINES – Concise Plus ( Maglioni, Graeme Thomson)

The Renaissance: The Centrality of Man – Humanism.

Thomas More: Utopia The labours of life ( Utopia, Book Two). Talking about today’s Utopias: Martin Luther King’s speech “ I have a dream”; Song “ Imagine” by John Lennon.

The Elizabethan theatre

William Shakespeare and human passions Sonnets: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun Romeo and Juliet: The balcony scene Hamlet: To be or not to be The Tempest: The profit of language

From the Puritan to the Augustan Age

The Rise of Puritanism: The English Civil War; Oliver Cromwell.

Literature in the Puritan Age: Prose and Poetry.

The Restoration of the Monarchy: The two-party system.

The Glorious Revolution.

Restoration prose; British Empiricism; Restoration poetry and comedy.

The Augustan Age; The Enlightenment; The Hanoverian dynasty.

The spread of journalism in England and in Italy.

The circulation of news: from the coffee house to internet forums.

Literature in the Augustan Age: the rise of the novel. Daniel Defoe and the realistic novel Robinson Crusoe

Friday

Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel Gulliver's travels Samuel Richardson and the epistolary novel Clarissa

Dal testo: NEW SUCCESS – Intermediate students’ book (S. Mckinlay, B.Hastings)

+ workbook (L. White, R. Fricker) ED. Longman

Unit 6 Animal magic (Zero, first and second conditional)

Those crazy humans!

Too clever by half ?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping animals in zoos?

Writing: for-and-against essay.

Unit 7 Nobody’s perfect (Reported speech)

Life after school: You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Writing: reporting a conversation.

Speaking: talking about jobs. Describing a photo, comparing photos.

Unit 8 Getting away (The passive )

Youth Hostels

Break Free – the thrill of adventure

Travelling by plane

Writing: description of a place.

Unit 10 True Art ( Modal verbs for speculation)

Silibil ‘n’ Brains – the lie behind a life.

Writing: Film review

Alice in a hole.

Tematiche di Educazione Civica

Civil Rights: Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a dream”. Pacifist movement:

song “Imagine” by John Lennon.

Natural environment: protection of endangered species.

The circulation of news: the role of information.