Liceo Statale “Giovanni Sulpicio”
Scientifico – Linguistico – delle Scienze umane
VEROLI
ALLEGATO H
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO a.s. 2014/2015
Classe V L
DISCIPLINA
PROF. Daniela Villa
LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
Primo periodo: 15 settembre/22 dicembre 2014
 THE ROMANTICS
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William Wordsworth: the theorist of English Romanticism; the manifesto of English Romanticism:
‘Recollection in tranquillity'; the task of the poet.
Daffodils.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: life, works.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: content, features.
Part 1: It is an Ancient Mariner
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: a tempestous life; works: freedom and love.
Ode to the West Wind;
 John Keats: life and works; the meaning of beauty.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- Letture ed analisi di attualità
- Comunicazione ed interazione
- Attività di ascolto
- Lessico (spelling and pronunciation)
Conversazione prof. ADELE VALENTE
Text Book - “Get Real”:
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p. 54/55:
p. 80/81:
p. 82/83:
p. 85:
“Means of Transportation” (advantages and disadvantages)
“Making decisions”
“The Language of Films”
“Talking about Protesting and Speculating”
Conversation and Oral presentations:
- “Safeguarding and enhancing linguistic diversity”
- “Lovelocks”
- “How does music affect you?”
Secondo periodo: 7 gennaio/8 giugno 2015
 WOMEN WRITERS.
 Mary Shelley.
FRANKESTEIN, or the Modern Prometheus: plot, the influence of science, themes.
“The creation of the monster”
 Jane Austen: works, themes and features: treatment of love.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: plot, characterization.
"Hunting for a husband”
 THE VICTORIAN AGE
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Historical-cultural context: key points, the Victorian Compromise, the Victorian novel: main features.
Aestheticism and Decadence
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Charles Dickens: life and works; themes, settings, characters, style.
OLIVER TWIST: plot
“Oliver is taken to the workhouse".
HARD TIMES: plot; the critique of materialism.
"Coketown".
 Robert Louis Stevenson: life, works. The double.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: plot, narrative technique.
“Jekyll turns into Hyde”;
“Jekyll can no longer control Hyde”.
 Oscar Wilde: the rebel and the dandy.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: plot, meaning.
 THE MODERN AGE
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Historical-cultural context. The Age of Anxiety; the crisis of certainties
 The War Poets
Wilfred Owen : Dulce et Decorum est
 James Joyce: life, works; Joyce and Ireland; the exile.
DUBLINERS: features; realism and symbolism
Eveline
from The Dead: "I think he died for me"
 Virginia Woolf: life, works, the Bloomsbury group; a Modernist writer.
MRS. DALLOWAY: plot, narrative technique, characterization,
“Clarissa and Septimus”.
 George Orwell: life, works; living with the lower classes; the urge to inform.
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: plot; an anti-utopian novel, themes.
"Big brother is watching you".
Conversazione
- Letture ed analisi di attualità
- Comunicazione ed interazione
- Attività di ascolto
- Lessico (spelling and pronunciation)
Text Book - “Get Real”:
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p. 91:
“Writing formal letters”
p.138/139: “Slavery”
p. 46:
“Celebrations around the World”
p. 112:
“Opinion Essays”
p. 116/117: “Eco-Friendly”