| LIBRI DI TESTO | AA VV, FOCUS AHEAD UPPER-INTERMEDIATE, PEARSON LONGMAN
BONCI L., HOWELL S. M., GRAMMAR IN PROGRESS UPDATED – VOLUME UNICO (LDM) / THIRD EDITION, ZANICHELLI EDITORE
SPIAZZI M., TAVELLA M., LAYTON M., PERFORMER HERITAGE SECOND EDITION – VOLUME 1 (LDM) / FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE ROMANTIC AGE, ZANICHELLI EDITORE
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| Argomenti svolti | English Literature:
From Pre-Celtic to Roman Britain, The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings, The Norman Conquest and the Domesday Book, Anarchy and Henry Plantagenet, From Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt, The Wars of the Roses, The development of poetry, The epic poem and the pagan elegy, The medieval ballad, The medieval narrative poem, Beowulf: a national epic, T1: The hero comes to Heorot, T2: Beowulf and Grendel: the fight, T3: Beowulf's funeral, Beowulf (film directed by R. Zemeckis), Medieval Ballads, T4: Geordie, T5: Lord Randal, A Hard Rain's gonna Fall (Bob Dylan), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, T7: The Prioress, T8: The Merchant, T9: The Wife of Bath.
The early Tudors, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth (film directed by Shekhar Kapur), Renaissance and New Learning, The Early Stuarts, The Civil War and the Commonwealth, The sonnet, William Shakespeare, W. Shakespeare's sonnets, T11: Shall I Compare Thee, T13: My Mistress' eyes, The development of drama, C. Marlowe, T10: Faustus's Last Monologue, Shakespeare the dramatist, Romeo and Juliet, T14: The prologue, T15: The masque, T16: The balcony scene, Romeo + Juliet (film directed by Baz Luhrmann).
Focus Ahead Upper-Intermediate:
Unit 1: Do your best
Vocabulary: education; phrasal verbs; collocations; personality adjectives.
Grammar: present and past habits; verb patterns.
Listening: Memory.
Reading: Experiments in education.
Watching and Speaking: describing a photo; speculating.
Writing: a report.
Unit 2: It takes all sorts
Vocabulary: family; celebrations; religious ceremonies; verb-noun collocations; common phrases.
Grammar: Past Perfect Simple and Continuous; relative clauses.
Listening: A talk by a neuroscientist.
Reading: Mysterious events.
Watching and Speaking: telling a personal anecdote.
Writing: an article.
Unit 3: A place to live
Vocabulary: dependent prepositions; collocations; useful phrases to describe cities.
Grammar: future forms; quantifiers.
Listening: Places to live.
Reading: The International Space Station.
Watching and Speaking: organising a place to live; suggesting, agreeing to and objecting to a course of action.
Writing: a "for and against" essay.
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