Letteratura inglese (dal libro Performer Heritage.BLU)
UNIT 1: THE ORIGINS AND THE MIDDLE AGES
From Pre-Celtic Britain to Roman Britain; The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings; The Norman Conquest and the Domesday Book; Henry Plantagenet; From Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt; Magna Carta; The Wars of the Roses; Poetic devices ("the art of poetry"); The development of poetry; The epic poem; The medieval ballad; The medieval narrative poem; Beowulf: a national epic; Beowulf and Grendel: the fight; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Prioress, The Merchant, The Wife of Bath.
UNIT 2: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE PURITAN AGE
The early Tudors; Elizabeth I; Renaissance and New Learning; The Early Stuarts; The Civil War and the Commonwealth; The sonnet (comparison between Petrarchan and Shakespearean); W. Shakespeare; Introduction to Sonnets; Shakespeare the dramatist; Introduction to the First Folio by Ben Jonson (testo commentato consegnato su Classroom); Romeo and Juliet; Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet con commento e analisi dei personaggi, del setting e del testo; A Midsummer Night's Dream (plot, characters, setting, themes)
Lingua inglese (dal libro Into Focus B2)
UNIT 1: LIVE AND LEARN
Vocabulary: Education
Grammar: Present and past habits, verb patterns.
Reading: Hidden Talents
Listening and watching: BBC Video 1
UNIT 2: HUMAN NATURE
Vocabulary: describing personality, personality adjectives, compound adjectives.
Grammar: Past Perfect Simple and Continuous. Relative clauses.
Listening: What is love?
Reading: A personality test. A difficult meeting; It was meant to be
Language in focus: collocations.
UNIT 3: LIVING SPACES
Vocabulary: describing places, prepositions describing locations, collocations.
Grammar: Future forms including the Future Perfect Continuous. Quantifiers.
Listening: places to live.
Reading: A small city with big ideas. Advantages and Disadvantages of living in halls of residence.
Language in focus: determiners.
Watching and speaking: BBC Video 3
Out of the book:
Culture: Focus on Halloween in Tim Burton's movies; Focus on Star Wars through the Shakespearean adaptation by Ian Doescher; TedEd "Everything you need to know to read The Canterbury Tales"; TedEd "What makes a Hero"; Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell video "The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?"; TedEd "Why should you read A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
Writing: How to take Notes; a 'for and against' Essay
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