Liceo Scientifico Statale “R. Caccioppoli”
NAPOLI
Programma di lingua e civiltà inglese
Classe III C a.s. 2014/2015
Prof.ssa L. Veneri
A) Dal libro di testo : Headway Digital Intermediate:
-UNIT 1 : revision of the main tenses , auxiliary verbs
-UNIT 2 : Present tenses, Passive, Adverbs of frequency
-UNIT 3 : Past tenses, Used to, Past tenses in the passive, Giving opinions
-UNIT 5 : Future forms , modal verbs
Phonetic symbols with transcriptions
B) Dal libro di testo : Grammar in Progress
UNIT 11 : THE SIMPLE PAST
UNIT 14: THE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS
THE PAST PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS
UNIT 23: QUESTION TAGS, I VERBI FAR FARE, FORMA PASSIVA
Phrasal verbs
C) Dal libro di testo With Rhymes and Reason volume primo :
From the Origins to the Middle Ages
The Origins
-The Historical Background (700 BC-AD 900)
The origins, The Iberians, The Celts, The Romans, The Anglo-Saxon invasion, Anglo-Saxon
civilisation, Christianity in Britain, The Vikings
-The Literary Context
The evolution of the English language, Old English, The unwritten word, Pagan versus Christian,
Epic, Beowulf, Elegy, Anglo-Saxon poetry
The Middle Ages(1066-1485)
-The Historical and literary context
The last invaders: the Normans, The social order under the Normans,
The feudal system, The Domesday Book, Reforms, Richard the Lion Heart,
King John, Henry III, Edward I and II, The Hundred Years’ War, John Wycliffe, The Wars of the
Roses
Geoffrey Chaucer :
-“The Canterbury Tales”
-“April’s Sweet Showers”
-“The Prioress”
-“The Wife of Bath”
The Renaissance
The Historical and the Literary Context
The years of revolution, Henry VIII, The breach with Rome, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, James
I, The Pilgrim Fathers
Towards the age of sensibility, The English Renaissance, The English and Italian Renaissance,
Theatre, The history of theatres, Public and private theatres, The University Wits, William
Shakespeare, The Jacobean theatre, The sonnet, poetry prose and drama .
Cristopher Marlowe:
“Doctor Faustus”
Sir Thomas More:
“Utopia”
The Elizabethan sonnet:
Sir Philip Sidney: “My true love hath my heart”
W: Shakespeare: Sonnet n. 130 and Sonnet n. 18
The Elizabethan theatre: W.Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet
 The merchant of Venice
La docente
Prof.ssa L. Veneri
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