PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI Inglese Classe 4G LS
DOCENTEFontana Fabrizio
LIBRI DI TESTO

Jones, Kay, Brayshaw, Montanari, FOCUS AHEAD UPPER-INTERMEDIATE, Pearson Longman
Piazzi, Tavella, PERFORMER HERITAGE 1, Zanichelli

ORE SETTIMANALI3
ORE TOTALI SVOLTE90
CONOSCENZE DISPIPLINARIArgomenti svolti
ARGOMENTI LINGUISTICI, GRAMMATICALI E DI LESSICO
Per i seguenti argomenti si faccia riferimento al testo FOCUS AHEAD UPPER-INTERMEDIATE e al materiale caricato online durante l’anno.
- Attività di reading, writing, listening, oral production e interaction delle unità di seguito elencate:
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
- Esercizi grammaticali all’interno delle unità svolte, nelle sezioni Grammar Focus e Revision for Certification (eventualmente integrate tramite le schede di spiegazione ed esercitazione pubblicate su Classroom).
- Lessico contenuto nelle pagine di apertura delle unità svolte, nella sezione Vocabulary Focus, nelle unità del Word Store.


LETTERATURA E STORIA INGLESE
Per i seguenti argomenti si faccia riferimento al testo “PERFORMER HERITAGE 1 e al materiale caricato su Classroom durante l’anno

The Golden Age
- The reign of queen Elizabeth I
- Renaissance in England

Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s life, the Elizabethan playhouse, the different genres of Shakespeare’s plays
Romeo and Juliet
- Plot, general features of the play, themes, characters;
- Reading and analysis of the passages: "The Prologue", “The Masque”, "The Balcony scene"
Hamlet
- Plot, general features of the play, themes, characters;
- Reading and analysis of the passage: “To be or not to be”
Macbeth
- Plot, general features of the play, themes, characters;
- Reading and analysis of the following passages: “Lady Macbeth's soliloquy - Come you spirits", ”Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's first dialogue", "Macbeth's soliloquy - Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"

The Stuarts and the Puritan Age
- The reign of James I, the reign of Charles I, the Civil War and Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth
- The Puritans

John Milton
Paradise Lost
- Structure, themes and characters;
- Reading and analysis of “Satan’s speech”

The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution
- The reign of Charles II
- Two catastrophes: the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
- The Royal Academy and the scientific revolution
- The Glorious Revolution and the reign of Queen Mary II and King William of Orange
- The two-party system
- Modern political parties in contemporary Britain

The Augustan Age
- The reign of Queen Ann
- The slave trade (approfondimento)
- The reign of George I and the birth of Parliamentary Monarchy
- The foundation of the empire
- The spirit of the age: Enlightenment
- The Augustan values
- The arts: architecture, gardening and painting
- Economic background
- The rise of the middle class Literary taste

Daniel Defoe
- Life and main works
- Features of the realistic novel (plot, characters, setting)
Robinson Crusoe
- Plot, structure, style and sources
- The middle-class hero
- Religious, economic and imperialistic allegories
- The archetype of Robinson
- Reading and analysis of "Friday"

Jonathan Swift
- Life and main works
- Reason and common sense
- Satire
Gulliver’s Travels
- Plot and structure
- Main themes of the four voyages: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, The land of the horses
- Reading and analysis of the following passages: Part 1 Chapter 4: “Big endians and Small endians”, Part 2 Chapter 1: “The giants”, “The meeting with the king”, Part 3 Chapter 5: “The Academy of Lagado”.

The American Revolution's main events

The Industrial Revolution
- Demographic, economic, technological and social changes
- The factory system
- Why England?

The Gothic novel
- General features
- Horror and terror
- Reading and analysis of the passage "Terror" from A. Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho"



APPROFONDIMENTI
The Artificial Intelligence
Reading of the following articles:
- Strong AIs (from IBM site)
- Superintelligence (from Scientific American magazine)
Reading and analysis of the following short stories:
- Asimov's Question
- Brown's Answer
Detailed analysis of the movie Ex-Machina (themes, characters, structure), discussion on the movie.
Flipped classroom on the following topics:
- Blade Runner
- Blade Runner 2049
- I Robot
- Terminator 2, Judgement Day
- Brian Aldiss: Supertoys Last All Summer Long
- William Gibson: Neuromancer
- Ava
- Technology (algorithms)
- An episode from the tv series"Love Death + Robots"
COMPETENZE E ABILITA’ RELATIVE ALLA DISCIPLINAPER LE COMPETENZE E ABILITA’ RELATIVE ALLA DISCIPLINA SI FA RIFERIMENTO ALLA PROGRAMMAZIONE DI DIPARTIMENTO
METODOLOGIE E STRUMENTI DI INSEGNAMENTO UTILIZZATI
  • Discussione guidata
  • Lavoro di gruppo
  • Lezione frontale
  • Lezione in videoconferenza
  • Lezione partecipata
  • Navigazione /ricerche in rete
  • Problem solving
  • Flipped classroom
CLILNON svolto
NUMERO DI VERIFICHE SVOLTE3 (primo trimestre)
4 (secondo pentamestre)
TIPOLOGIA DI INTERVENTI DI RECUPERO REALIZZATI
  • Settimana interruzione attività didattica