4A
Programma di inglese della 4 A
A.S. 2014/2015:
Testo: PERFORMER CULTURE E LITERATURE 2
From the Origins to the nineteenth Century
Autori: Marina Spiazzi
Marina Tavella
Margaret Layton
-A Time of Upheaval:
History.
The Restoration of the monarchy.
-Shaping th English Character:
History.
The birth of the political parties.
Society.
A golden age.
Literature.
The means for cultural debate
Comparing Literatures.
Teo newspapers:''The Spectator'' and ''Il Caffe' ”
Literature.
-Daniel Defoe and the rise of the realistic novel.
Robinson Crusoe
Text Analysis: -The Journal
-Man Friday
-Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel.
Gulliver's Travels.
Text Analysis:-Gulliver and the Lilliputians.
Cultural Issues.
Tourists,travellers and movers.
An Age of Revolutions:
History.
An age of Revolutions.
Society.
Industrial society.
Literature.
-William Blake and the victims of industrialisation.
Text Analysis:-London.
History.
The American War of Independence
Philosophy and the Arts.
The sublime:a new sensibility.
Literature.
-Mary Shelley and the new interest in science.
Frankenstein.
Text Analysis:-The creation of the monster.
The Romantic Spirit:
Literature.
-Emotion Vs Reason.
-William Wordsworth and nature.
Text Analysis:-Daffodils.
-John Keats and unchanging nature.
Text Analysis:-Bright Star.
-Jane Austen and the theme of love.
Text Analysis:-Pride and Prejudice.
Coming Age:
History.
The fist half of Queen Victoria's reign.
The Arts.
Victorian London.
Society.
The Victorian compromise.
Literature.
The Victorian novel.
4B
Programma di Lingua e Cultura Inglese Classe 4 B - Anno scolastico 2014-2015
Prof.ssa Marialuisa Pasquariello
LITERATURE
Libro di testo: M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, M. Layton – Performer – Culture and Literature, volumi 1 e
2, Zanichelli.
The 18th- century novel
The realistic novel
DANIEL DEFOE: life, main works, narrative technique, characterization, themes, style.
Robinson Crusoe: plot, features and themes
Extract: “Man Friday”, pp.169-170 – reading comprehension, translation, text analysis and
commentary.
The satirical novel
JONATHAN SWIFT : life, main works, narrative technique, characterization, themes, style.
Gulliver’s Travels: plot, features and themes.
Extract: “The Academy of Lagado” , text bank 36 – reading comprehension, translation, text
analysis and commentary.
An Age of Revolutions
Historical and social background
The industrial and agrarian revolutions – Industrial society
The American War of Independence
Culture and literature
Edmund Burke and the sublime in nature.
The Sublime: a new sensibility, pp. 199-200
The novel in the romantic age
The Gothic novel, p. 202
MARY SHELLEY: life, main works, narrative technique, characterization, themes, style.
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: plot and themes.
Extract: “The Creation of the Monster”, pp. 205-206 – reading comprehension, translation,
analysis and commentary.
The Romantic Spirit
The origin of the term ‘romantic’.
The main features of Romanticism: nature, emotion, imagination, freedom, titanic attitude, the cult
of the exotic, escapism.
Romantic poetry vs Augustan School of poetry.
A new sensibility. The emphasis on the individual.
The first and the second generation of Romantic poets.
The language of sense impressions.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH : Life, works, themes.
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Extract from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800): “A certain colouring of
imagination” (photocopy): reading comprehension, translation and commentary.
“Daffodils” (from Poems in Two Volumes), p. 218 – reading comprehension, text
analysis, translation and commentary.
JOHN KEATS : Life, works, themes. Beauty and art. The role of imagination. Negative capability.
 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, text bank 51 – reading comprehension, text analysis,
translation and commentary.
Coming of an age
Historical and social background
The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign (Early and Mid-Victorian period).
The Chartist Movement. Laws and reforms. The Great Exhibition. The building of railways.
Life in the Victorian town. The Victorian compromise.
The British Empire. The mission of the coloniser. The white man’s burden.
Charles Darwin and evolution.
Culture and literature
The Victorian novel. The 19th-century novel and the 18th-century novel: similarities and differences.
Victorian education.
CHARLES DICKENS : Life, main works, themes. Characters. The humanitarian novel. The theme of
education.
 Oliver Twist (1837-39). Plot, features and themes. Extract: “Oliver wants some more”,
pp. 303-304 – reading comprehension, analysis, translation and commentary.
 Hard Times (1854). Plot, features and themes. Extract: “The definition of a horse”, pp.
309-311 – reading comprehension, analysis, translation and commentary.
LANGUAGE
Dal testo: Bonci-Howell, Grammar in Progress, Zanichelli
Unit 17
17.2 : Present and Perfect conditional.
17.5 Periodo ipotetico di 3° tipo.
17.6 Le varianti del periodo ipotetico. Condizionale misto e con inversione.
Dal libro di testo “Gateway – Destination B2”, Macmillan
Unit 5 – Learning for life
Grammar: Modal verbs of obligation, prohibition, advice and permission. First and second
conditional.
Functions and vocabulary: School and university subjects – Giving advice and comparing ideas –
Making hypotheses.
“Surviving the University Application Process”, p. 59 – reading comprehension, activities and
written summary of the text.
Unit 9 – History’s Mysteries
Grammar: Modal verbs of speculation and deduction – present and past. Third conditional.
Narrative tenses. Modal verbs expressing reproach, regret, absence of obligation (past).
Functions and vocabulary: State and politics. Making speculations and deductions.
Unit 10 – Shop until you drop
Grammar: I wish and If only
Functions and vocabulary: Wishes and regrets. At a clothes shop: buying problems and solutions.
Offering and accepting help – asking for and giving information / opinion – apologising. Shopping
conversations. Customer complaints.
Grammar Plus
Mixed conditionals, p. 274
Sono state somministrate fotocopie con schemi semplificati ed esercizi supplementari relativi ai
seguenti argomenti di grammatica:
- Modal verbs of speculation, deduction and assumption (present and past)
- Modal verbs expressing criticism, reproach and regret
- Absence of obligation in the past
- Modal verbs (past): continuous form (“He must/may/might/could have been waiting for the
bus…”).
4C
Programma di inglese IV C 2014/2015 Prof. Evelina Diodato
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Revisione di Shakespeare (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The
Tempest) e Marlowe (Dr. Faustus).
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Literary genres: poetry, text analysis, sound devices, meaning devices, stanza forms, types
of poetry.
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History of prose, novel and its structure, point of view, narrator, characters, theme, tone and
register.
Narrative techniques: stream of consciousness, interior monologue (direct and indirect).
Other narrative genres: minimalism, metafiction, magic realism, non-fiction novel, cyberpunk, skaz, surrealism, collage and short story.
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Augustan Age
 James
I, Charles I, English Civil war, Puritanism, Glorious Revolution, Cromwell, Second
Act of settlement, Scottish and Irish question, Hanoverian dynasty.
 The age of revolutions: American Revolution, French Revolution and Industrial Revolution
(Victorian compromise).
 Daniel Defoe: life, criticism, works (Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders) and text analysis
of the following texts: "Man Friday" fromRobinson Crusoe
 Jonathan Swift: life, criticism, works (A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels) and text
analysis of the following texts: "Gulliver's travels" from Gulliver's travels.
 Sono stati presi in considerazione Sterne e Richardson per l'innovazione che hanno portato
nella letteratura inglese: metanovel e antinovel per il primo e psychological and
epistolarynovel per il secondo.
Romantic Age and the Sublime
 Introduction to Romanticism, the first and the second generation of Romantics, the Sublime.
 William Blake: life, criticism, works (Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, Elohim
creating Adam) and text analysis of the following texts: "The Lamb" and "Infant Joy"
fromSongs of Innocence; "The Tyger", "Infant sorrow" and "London" fromSongs of
Experience
 William Wordsworth:life, criticism, works (Lyrical Ballads) and text analysis of the
following texts: "I wandered lonely as a cloud", "Sonnet composed upon Westminster
Bridge" fromLyrical Ballads.
 George Gordon Byron: life, criticism, works (Manfred and Don Juan) and text analysis of
the following texts: "Manfred's final monologue" fromManfred.
 Jane Austen: life, criticism, works (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility) and text
analysis of the following texts:"Darcy's proposal"fromPride and Prejudice.
Tema del Fantastico
Gothic
 Mary Shelley:
life, criticism, works (Frankenstein) and text analysis of the following texts:
"The creation of the Monster"and“Frankenstein” from Frankenstein.
Sci-fi
 Robert
Louis Stevenson: life, criticism, works (The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde) and text analysis of the following texts: "Jekyll's experiment" from The strange
case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Non-sense
 Lewis
Caroll: life, criticism, works and text analysis of the following books: Alice's
adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there.
Victorian Age
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Charles Dickens: life, criticism, works (Oliver Twist, Hard Times and David Copperfield)
and text analysis of the following texts: “I want some more” from Oliver Twist, “The
definition of a horse” from Hard Times.
Charlotte Brontë:life, criticism, works (Jane Eyre) and text analysis of the following texts:
“Punishment” from Jane Eyre.
Aestheticism and Decadentism
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Oscar Wilde: life, criticism, works (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Ballad of the Reading
Gaol, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest) and text analysis of the
following texts: “Preface” from The Picture of Dorian Gray, “Mother’s worries” from The
Importance of Being Earnest; book analysis of An Ideal Husband.
Testi:
o Performer Culture &Literature 2: Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton, edito da Zanichelli.
o Literary Links: Thomson, Maglioni, edito da Black Cat.
o Onlyconnect: Spiazzi, Tavella, edito da Zanichelli.
4E
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
CLASSE IV SEZ.E 2014/2015
Early-Romantic Age/ An age of revolution
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
- Industrial revolution
- American revolution
- French revolution
SOCIAL BACKGROUND:
- Industrial society
- Consequences of Industrial revolution
LITERARY BACKGROUND:
- The Gothic novel
- Mary Shelley and a new interest in science
- “Frankenstein”: plot, structure and themes
From “Frankenstein”:
- “The creation of the monster”: reading, translation and text analysis
- “Frankenstein and the monster”: reading, translation and text analysis
- The epistolary novel
- Mary Shelley and Foscolo
The Romantic Age
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
- From Napoleonic wars to Regency
SOCIAL BACKGROUND:
- English society in the early 19th century
LITERARY BACKGROUND:
- Romanticism
- Features of Romantic poetry
- The first and second generation of Romantic poetry
- William Wordsworth: the nature poet
From “Lyrical Ballads”:
- “A certain colouring of imagination”: reading, translation, text analysis
- “Rainbow”: reading, translation, text analysis
- “Daffodils”: reading, translation, text analysis
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”: plot and characters
- John Keats: unchanging nature
- “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: reading, translation, text analysis
- “Bright Star”: reading, translation, text analysis
- George Gordon Byron: The Byronic hero
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: features and themes
- Jane Austen: the theme of love
- “Pride and Prejudice”: plot, themes, characters, style
From “Pride and Prejudice”:
- “Darcy proposes to Elizabeth”: reading, translation, text analysis
The Victorian Age
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
- The life of young Victoria
- The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign
- The British Empire
SOCIAL BACKGROUND:
- Victorian society
- The life of Victorian town
- The Victorian compromise
LITERARY BACKGROUND:
- The Victorian novel
- Charles Dickens: the painter of English life
- “Oliver Twist”: plot
From “Oliver Twist”:
- “Oliver wants some more”: reading, translation, text analysis
- Charles Dickens and the themes of education
- “Hard Times”: plot
From “Hard Times”:
- “The definition of a horse”: reading, translation, text analysis
- “Coketown”: reading, translation, text analysis
From “A Christmas Carol”:
- “Scrooge’s Christmas” reading, translation, text analysis
- Charlotte and Emily Bronte, George Eliot: the voice of women novelists
- “Jane Eyre”: plot
From “Jane Eyre”:
- “A dramatic incident”: reading, translation, text analysis
From “Wuthering Heights”:
- “I’m Heatcliff”: reading, translation, text analysis
From “Middlemarch”:
- “Dorothea Brooke”: reading, translation, text analysis
- Victorian Poetry: its features
- The Aesthetic movement
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Decadence
- Alfred Tennyson: the dramatic monologue
- “Ulysses”: reading, translation, text analysis
- Oscar Wilde: the representative of Aestheticism
- “The picture of Dorian Gray” and the themes of beauty
From “The picture of Dorian Gray”:
- “Basil’s studio”: reading, translation, text analysis
- “I would give my soul”: reading, translation, text analysis
- The decadent artist: Wilde and D’Annunzio
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Victorian hypocrisy and the double in literature
- “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Me. Hyde”:
-“The story of the door”: reading, translation, text analysis
Mid-Victorian Period
- Charles Darwin and Evolution
GATEWAY
- Unit 7: defining relative clauses; non-defining relative clauses
- Unit 8: reported speech- statements; reported speech- questions, suggestions and invitations;
reported speech- commands
- Unit 9: modal verbs of speculation and deduction- present and past; third conditional; narrative
tenses
- Unit 10: indeterminate pronouns; so and such; I wish if only
4G
Programma di inglese 4^G Anno scolastico 2014/2015
Prof.ssa Nicoletta D'Antuono
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THE PURITAN AGE:
Charles I Stuart and the Civil War
The Commonwealth
Anglicans and Puritans
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THE RESTORATION:
Charles II and the Restoration
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THE AUGUSTAN AGE:
The Hanoverian accession
Realism
Journalism
Satire
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JONATHAN SWIFT:
A Modest Proposal
Gulliver's travels
The king's considerations
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THE NOVEL:
The realistic novel
The Bourgeois novel
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DANIEL DEFOE:
Robinson Crusoe
Comforts and miseries
A Journal of the Plague Year
Scenes from the plague
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SAMUEL RICHARDSON:
Ambiguity in Richardson
Richardson's technique and influence
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LAURENCE STERNE:
Tristram Shandy
Associaton of ideas
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THE AGE OF TRANSITION:
George III and the great revolutions
The three “revolutions” of the Age of Transition
Changes in agricolture
Social problems
The twilight of Classicism
Sublime and Beautiful
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THE ROMANTIC AGE:
Romanticism
Features of English Romantic poetry
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
Lyrical Ballads
Poetry is the spontaneous overflop of powerful feelings
The Solitary Reaper
Daffodils
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MARY SHELLEY:
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
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JANE AUSTEN:
Pride and Prejudice
4 A Classico
Programma Lingua e Cultura Inglese classe IVA Classico Anno scolastico 2014/2015
CULTURE
Literature
J.Swift and the satirical novel. Life,works
“Gulliver’s Travels” plot, features and themes
S.Richardson and the epistolary novel. Life, works
“Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded”: plot, features and themes
History and society
The American Revolution
Reading:T. Jefferson “The Declaration of American Independence”
The French Revolution
The Industrial and Agrarian Revolution
Social unrest
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Culture
The Romantic Revolution
Philosophy and the Arts
The Sublime: a new sensibility
Literature
The Gothic Novel
Mary Shelley and the new interest in science. Life and works.
“Frankenstein” plot, features and themes
Reading, comprehension, commentary “The Creation of the monster”
Romantic poetry
W.Blake and the victims of industrialization. Life and works.
“The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” and from “Songs of Experience”
The First Generation of Romantic poets. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads
W. Wordsworth and nature. Life and works
“Daffodils” reading,comprehension, text analysis
From “Intimations of Immortality” 5th stanza
S.T.Coleridge :”The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” plot, features
The Second Generation of Romantic Poets. P.B.Shelley, Lord G.Byron, J.Keats: general features.
J Keats and Beauty. Life and works
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” reading,comprehension, text analysis.
History and society
An age of industry and reforms
The British Empire
Culture
The Victorian Compromise
Science and Philosophy
Charles Darwin and evolution
Literature
The Victorian Novel
C.Dickens and children. Life and works
“Oliver Twist”: plot, features and themes.
“Hard Times”: plot, features and themes
Reading, comprehension, text analysis “The definition of a horse”
Stevenson : Victorian hypocrisy and the double in literature
“The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”:plot,features and themes
Comparing Literature
Decadent Art and Aestheticism
Literature
Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde: the brilliant artist and the dandy. Life and works
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”: plot, features and themes
The Victorian Poetry
The Dramatic Monologue
A.Tennyson: “Ulysses” reading, comprehension, text analysis
Comparing Cultures
The Myth of Ulysses : Homer and Dante
Cattaneo- De Flaviis “Millennium” vol.1 vol.2 Ed. Signorelli
LANGUAGE
Vocabulary:
Feelings and situations; Word formation ; Adjectives in –ed and in –ing.
Phrasal verbs connected with relationship
Travel and tourism; Accomodation; Phrasal verbs connected with travel
Grammar :
Present Simple and continuous ; Past Simple; Stative verbs;
Present perfect simple and continuous; duration form; past perfect continuous; Duration form in the
past; Continuous tenses.
Used to – to be used – to get used- would for past habits; -ing form used as subject/object.
Future continuous- Future perfect simple- Future perfect continuous e altri modi per esprimere il
fututo.
Readings:
Relationship hotline
Are you a heartbroken teenager?
James Dean
Cowboy fantasies on a ranch in Montana
Writing:
Informal letter/email
Course books “Laser B2” di M.Mann Steve Taylore-Knowles ed.MacMillan
“Grammar Files Blue Edition” di Fiocchi Jordan ed.Trinity Whitebridge
Files 22 – 23 - 25 – 26 - 28