Terza G - LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE | 2023-2024

From "Open World" di Cosgrove, Hobbs - Cambridge

Starter: present perfect review, comparatives and superlatives - Adjectives to describe emotions

1 - Fighting fit: Gerunds and Infinitives - Health anf fitness; idioms for health anf fitness

2 - Keeping in touch: The Passive; used to, be /get used to - Describing your family

3 - Beyond the classroom: First and second conditionals - giving advice - Education and study

4 - A trip to remember: Countable and uncountable nouns - Holiday and travel

5 - Grab some culture: Past simple, past perfect and past perfect continuous - Books and reading

6 - Closer to nature: prepositions, relative clauses - The natural world

7 - What's in your food: "wish" clauses, third and mixed conditionals - Describing food

From "LIterary journeys" di Cattaneo, De Flavis, Knipe - ed. Signorelli scuola

THE BIRTH OF A NATION

History: Celtic and Roman Britain; Anglo-Saxon Britain and the Germanic heritage

 The oral tradition: Beowulf: "Beowulf kills Grendel the monster"

THE MIDDLE AGES

History: The Normans: the French influence 

Middle English ballads: "Lord Randal"

G. Chaucer

The Canterbury tales: "General prologue"; "The Wife of Bath"; The Wife of Bath's tale"

THE RENAISSANCE

History: The Tudors and the Stuarts

Shakespeare's sonnets: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..." - "Shall I compare thee...."

Elizabethan theatre

C. Marlowe:

Dr Faustus  "Faustus's last hour and damnation" 

W. Shakespeare:

Romeo and Juliet "Only your name is my enemy" - visione film in lingua originale "Shakespeare in love"

Hamlet:  "To be or not to be" - visione film in lingua originale

Macbeth: "Macbeth shall sleep no more"