Focus ahead upper intermediate, Vaughan Jones Sue Kay Daniel Brayshaw Silvia Minardi, Pearson
M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, M. Layton Performer heritage vol. 1 second edition, ed. Zanichelli

Literature:
The Anglo-Saxons
The art of poetry
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Beowulf
Medioeval Ballads
The Norman conquest – The feudal system, Magna Carta and Parliament, The Hundred Years’ War. The Wars of the Roses
G. Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
The Pardoner and His Wonder Relics
The Pardoner's Prologue
The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath's prologue
Reading of the script ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Shakespeare
The Tudors
The English Renaissance
The Elizabethan theatre
The Art of Drama
C. Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
W. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet,
The Renaissance sonnet
The English and the Italian sonnet
W. Shakespeare's sonnets:
Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day, Like as the waves, My Mistress' Eye
Language:
Unit 0: GRAMMAR REVISION
Unit 1 Do your best
Grammar
• Present Simple and Continuous
• Habit in the past: used to /would
• Verb patterns
Vocabulary
Education, personality adjectives
Speaking: describing a photo, speculating
Unit 2 It takes all sorts
Grammar
• Past perfect simple and continuous
• Relative clauses
Vocabulary
• Celebrations
• Religious ceremonies
• Phrasal Verbs
Speaking: telling a personal anecdote
Unit 3 A place to live
Grammar
• Future forms
• quantifiers
Vocabulary
• describing a city
Speaking:
suggesting, agreeing, objecting to a course of action
Unit 4 The cost
Grammar
• Question tags
• Present and past modals
Vocabulary
• Money Idioms, shopping and money
Speaking: making and justifying choices

• Lavoro di gruppo
• Lezione frontale
• Lezione partecipata
• Drive
• Classroom virtuali

• In itinere (indicare le modalità)