Liceo statale Jacopone da Todi”
Programma di Inglese
Anno 2008\2009
Classe 3^BL
Testo di riferimento: “New opportunities” – intermediate students’ book – Longman
(Michael Harris, David Mower, Anna Sikorzyńska)
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MODULE 1 – ADVENTURE
WARM UP
Vocabulary: collocation; travel & leisure
Listening: monologues
SKILLS
GRAMMAR FOCUS
FOCUS
1- Explorers
Vocabulary: wordbuilding
Reading: non-fiction about Scott’s polar
expedition
Reading strategies: multiple choice questions
Speaking: about photos; information gap
SKILLS FOCUS
2- Travellers’ Tales
Grammar: Present Simple, Present
Continuous, Present Perfect
COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS
3- Extreme Sports
Vocabulary: extreme sports; cognates;
multi-part verbs (1)
Functions: preferences
Pronunciation: intonation of questions
Listening: TV programme; interviews
Listening strategies: preparation
Speaking: describing and talking about photos;
intreviewing partner
LANGUAGE PROBLEM SOLVING
CULTURE CORNER
Language Problem Solving 1
Grammar: state & activity verbs
Culture Corner 1
Canada
Reading: country factfile
Listeninig: a quiz; biographical data
Comparing Cultures: famous people;
explorers, travellers
4 – Communication Workshops
Vocabulary: opinions (adjectives &
collocations
Pronunciation: showing interest
Linking: informal linkers including
sentence adverbs, (actually, luckily)
Reading: adverts
Speaking: choosing a holiday
Speaking strategies: interection
Writing: a personal letter (1)
Listening: radio programme
LANGUAGE POWERBOOK
Vocabulary: travel and leisure
Grammar: Present Simple, Present
Continuous and Present Perfect
Function: expressing preferences
Writing: an informal letter
Language Problem Solving: state and
activity verbs
Skills Corner: Writing – a letter
MODULE 2 – STORIES
WARM UP
Vocabulary: stories
Speaking: describing photos
SKILLS FOCUS
GRAMMAR FOCUS
5- The Chase
Vocabulary: key words for text;
modifiers
Reading: short story by H. G. Wells
Reading strategies: paragraph gaps
Speaking: narrating
SKILLS FOCUS
6- A Memory
Grammar: Past Perfect
Reading: autobiography extract
COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS
7- Films
Vocabulary: film genres; film jargon
Functions: giving opinions about films
Vocabulary: multi-part verbs (2)
Listening: recorded phone message;
dialogues about films
Speaking: talking about a photo; talking about
films
LANGUAGE PROBLEM SOLVING
CULTURE CORNER
Language Problem Solving 2
Grammar: used to and would
8- Communication Workshops
Linking: sequence linkers, (after, by the
time, suddenly, just then, etc.)
Function: telling stories
Speaking: telling a film plot
Speaking strategies: dealing with
mistakes
Listening: a film plot
Listening strategies: listening for
important words
Writing: an adventure story
MODULE 3 – TRAVEL
WARM UP
Vocabulary: transport; travel words
Listening: monologues
SKILLS FOCUS
GRAMMAR FOCUS
9- Problems
Vocabulary: transport problems;
collocation
Speaking: discussing means of transport
Reading: travel literature extract by
Bill Bryson
Reading strategies: sentence gaps
SKILLS FOCUS
10- Fear of flying
Grammar: Present Perfect Simple and
Continuous
Vocabulary: air travel
Speaking: talking about a photo
COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS
11- On the move
Vocabulary: travel words; multi-part
verbs (3)
Function: travel situations
Pronunciation: stress affecting meaning
Speaking: talking about a photo; roleplays
Listening: airport announcements
Listening strategies: matching
information and dialogues
12- Communication Workshops
Linking: addition and contrast, (in
addition, plus, although, however, on the
other hand)
Function: tourist problems, completing
sentences
Speaking: tourist problems (roleplays)
Speaking strategies: preparing for
roleplays
LANGUAGE PROBLEM SOLVING
CULTURE CORNER
Language Problem Solving 3
Grammar: pronouns
Culture Corner 3
Getting around Britain
Reading: a leaflet
Listening: a radio programme
Comparing Cultures: visiting Britain
LITERATURE SPOTS
Reading and Listening: Frankenstein
Testo di riferimento: “Lit & Lab – From the Origins to the Augustian Age” – Zanichelli –
Marina Tavella, Marina Spiazzi
MODULE W – READING PATHS
1- The Tools of Poetry
Text 1- P.B. Shelley, “A Dirge”
Text 2- Keith Bosley, “Snake Glides”
Text 3- W.H. Davies, “Leisure”
Text 4- Walt Whitman, “We two Boys together Clinging”
Text 5- Emily Dickinson, “The Wind tapped like a Tired Man”
Text 6- Langston Hughes, “Dreams”
Text 7- Sylvia Plath, “Mirror”
Text 8- T.S. Eliot, “Preludes”
MODULE A – THE ORIGINS AND THE MIDDLE AGES
BREAKTHROUGH
The Making of the Nation
SETTING THE SCENE
The Plantagenetes
LITERARY
When in April the Sweet Showers fall”
TEXTS
Beowulf
Text 21- Anonymous, “The Fight with the Dragon”
WRITER’ PORTRAIT
Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
READING LAB
The Mistery of Stonehenge
L’ insegnante
I rappresentanti