PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA INGLESE
CLASSE 5L
A.S. 2012/13
Docenti: Prof.ssa Carla De Crecchio
Prof.ssa Wallis Frost
Libri di testo: Lit & Lab vol. 2 e 3, di M. Spiazzi e M. Tavella, Zanichelli.
Ready for FCE, di Roy Norris, Macmillan.
Dal libro di testo “Lit e Lab” vol. 2:
 The Romantic Age
- Emotion versus Reason: The age of revolutions; A new sensibility; A new concept of nature; The
importance of imagination and childhood; Emphasis on the individual; The cult of the exotic; The
changing face of Britain and America: The industrial revolution; Transport improvements; The
agrarian revolution; Towards the Napoleonic wars; From the Luddites to 1837; Social implications
of industrialism; The beginning of an American identity.
 The Gothic novel: general features.
- Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein”: the plot, the origin of the model, the influence of science, literary
influences, narrative structures, themes, the double.
 The novel of manners: features.
- J. Austen: the debt to the 18th century novel; the national marriage market; Austen's treatment of
love; Pride and Prejudice: the plot, characterization, the heroine and the hero, themes and style.
 Romantic poetry:
- W. Wordsworth: “Lyrical Ballads”: the Manifesto of English Romanticism; Man and nature;
Recollection in tranquillity; The poet's task and his style.
- S.T: Coleridge: The ideal in the real; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: content, atmosphere and
characters; The Rime and traditional ballads.
 The Victorian Age
- The Victorian compromise: The term Victorian; Victorian values; Patriotism, The age of
expansion and reforms: Queen Victoria' reign;The Great Exhibition; The urban habitat; The
British Empire; The American civil war.
- C. Dickens: Characters; A didactic aim; Narrative. Oliver Twist: the plot, the world of the
workhouse, London's life.
- Aetheticism and Decadence: features.
- O. Wilde: the artist and the dandy; A professor of aesthetic; Art for art's sake. The Picture of
Dorian Gray: the plot, narrative technique, allegorical meaning.
Dal libro di testo: Lit & Lab 3:
 The Modern Age
Anxiety and Rebellion: A deep cultural crisis; Freud's influence; Einstein's theory of relativity;
External time vs. internal time; The reign of Edward VII; The suffragettes; World War I.
- T:S: Eliot: The emblem of the alienation of modern man; The impersonality of the artist. The
Waste Land: the sections, the sterility of the present, the innovative stylistic devices.
- The modern novel: the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue.
- J. Joyce: the most radical innovator of the 20th century writing; Ordinary Dublin; A subjective
perspective of time; The impersonality of the artist. Dubliners: the four sections, narrative
technique, the use of epiphany, the theme of paralysis.
 G. Orwell: an independent minded personality; First hand experiences; An influential voice
of the 20th century; The artist's development; Social themes. Animal Farm: the historical
background to the book, the plot, the animals and the main theme. Nineteen Eighty-Four:
structure and plot, an anti-utopian novel.
Brani antologici:
 Mary Shelley: From “Frankenstein”:The Creation of the Monster; Frankenstein's Death.
 J. Austen: From “Pride and Prejudice”: Mr and Mrs Bennet; Darcy's Proposal.
 W. Wordsworth: A Certain Colouring of Imagination (from the Preface to the Lyrical
Ballads); Daffodils.
 S.T: Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner (some extracts).
 C. Dickens: from “Oliver Twist”: Oliver Twist's Ninth Birth.
 O. Wilde: From “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: Basil's Study; I Would Give my Soul.
 T.S. Eliot: part of the “Fire Sermon”.
 J. Joyce: from “Dubliners”: Eveline.
 G. Orwell: from Nineteen Eighty Four: Big Brother is Watching You.
Dal libro di testo “Ready for FCE”:
Question tags; Phrasal verbs: to give, to take, to get; Comparatives and superlatives; Describing
photos; Use of English; How to write a shor essay; Word formation; Reading comprehension
(multiple choice, gapped text, matching); Listening comprehension (multiple choice, matching,
sentence completion).
Films:
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver Twist
Le alunne
Le docenti