AA.VV., Focus Ahead Upper Intermediate, Pearson
AA.VV., Performer Heritage 1, Zanichelli

FOCUS AHEAD UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
Unit 4 (The cost of living)

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Verb patterns
Collocations and idioms
Phrasal verbs
Advanced modal structures

LITERATURE AND HISTORY
The 16th century
- The reigns of Edward VI and Queen Mary - The Elizabethan Age
- Elizabethan theatre: general features
Shakespeare (1):
- Life and general features
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets
- Macbeth

FOCUS AHEAD UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
Unit 5 (The world at your feet)
Unit 6 (True or false?)

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Advanced conditional clauses
Advanced passive forms
Verb patterns
Idioms, collocations, phrasal verbs

LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Shakespeare (2):
- Hamlet

The 17th century
- The reign of James I
- The Puritans
- Charles I and the Civil War
- Cromwell and the Commonwealth
- John Milton’s Paradise Lost
- The Restoration of the monarchy
- The Glorious Revolution

The 18th century
- The Augustan “Golden Age”
The rise of the novel:
- General features
- Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Plastic pollution e climate change
Racism (slave trade)
The birth of Parliamentary Monarchy in England and the creation of the two-party system

• Flipped classroom
• Lavori di gruppo
• Lavoro individuale
• Lezioni frontali
• Lezioni partecipate
• Problem solving
• Video lezioni
• Classroom virtuali

• Settimana interruzione attività didattica
• In itinere