| Argomenti svolti | Da Performer Heritage:
Shakespeare the dramatist. Romeo and Juliet: plot, setting, characters, themes, style. The Prologue. The masque. The balcony scene. Hamlet: plot, setting, structure, the character of Hamlet. "To be or not to be".
The Restoration of the monarchy. The Great Plague and the Great Fire. From the Glorious Revolution to Queen Anne.The early Hanoverians. From coffee houses to the Internet. John Locke. The Age of Reason.The circulation of ideas. The reading public. The rise of the novel. Types of novels. Daniel Defoe: life and works. Robinson Crusoe: plot, the island, characters, style. "A dreadful deliverance". "I was very seldom idle".
William Blake: life and works. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. "London".
Mary Shelley: life and works. Frankenstein: lettura integrale del testo. Plot, the influence of science, literary influences, themes. "The creation of the monster". Visione del film "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" di Kenneth Branagh.
Da Focus Ahead:
UNIT 2: It takes all sorts. Family-celebrations-religious ceremonies, Past perfect simple and continuous, relative clauses (defining- non defining- reduced – comment clauses), collocations.
UNIT 3: A place to live. Vocabulary, youth-friendly cities, Future forms (Future Continuous, Future Perfect Simple, Future Perfect Continuous), Quantifiers, Determiners, Organising a place to live, A "for and against" essay (Halls of residence).
UNIT 4: The cost of living. Shopping and money, phrasal verbs, money idioms. Question tags and reply questions. An interview: market trading. Present and past modal structures. A formal email (making a complaint).
Visione del film "Looking for Eric" di Ken Loach.
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