ISTITUTO SUPERIORE COMMERCIALE STATALE
E. MONTALE – NUOVO I.P.C.
sede:
Via Timavo, 63 16132 GENOVA
Classe 3 B linguistico
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI LINGUA INGLESE
A.S. 2014 – 2015
Prof. Poggi – Prof. Dixon
OBIETTIVI
Si è mirato all'apprendimento e all'uso comunicativo della lingua straniera a livello intermediate
(verso il livello B2 del portfolio linguistico europeo).
Nell'ambito della comunicazione quotidiana sono state sviluppate:
 la capacità di lettura di brani narrativi, articoli, testi autentici, opuscoli;
 la capacità di drammatizzare, narrare, discutere dei testi ascoltati e/o letti.
 la capacità di ascolto e comprensione orale di dialoghi, estratti di programmi radiofonici, testi
narrativi, conversazioni telefoniche, etc.;
 la produzione di lettere, resoconti, narrazioni.
Oltre allo sviluppo di competenze comunicative sono state curate:
 la correttezza grammaticale dell'espressione orale e scritta;
 l'arricchimento del vocabolario.
 La riflessione sulla lingua (l'analisi contrastiva delle strutture morfologiche, fonologiche e
sintattiche della lingua 2 e della lingua madre/ l'uso dei false friends, l'uso dei phrasal verbs)
Obiettivi relativi all'ambito letterario:
 Conoscere i tratti essenziali della letteratura britannica dalle origini al ‘600.
 Analizzare e commentare un testo letterario.
 Individuare le caratteristiche di un autore attraverso la lettura di un testo letterario.
 Collegare un testo al proprio contesto letterario.
 Parlare e relazionare brevemente per scritto di autori e di movimenti letterari.
 Esprimere opinioni personali sul testo letto.
 Acquisire un linguaggio appropriato nel settore letterario.
CONTENUTI
Ambito linguistico
Dal testo di lingua Guy Brook-Hart, Complete First Certificate, CUP:
Sono state svolte le unità 1-5 in copresenza con la docente madrelingua.
Per ciascuna unità è stato previsto lo studio delle funzioni comunicative e delle strutture
linguistiche introdotte, con relative letture ed esercitazioni orali e scritte.
Sono stati evidenziati i vocaboli relativi alle aree semantiche di ciascuna unità (famiglia e lavori di
casa, tempo libero, viaggi e vacanze, cibo, dieta e salute).
Sono state individuate le procedure per la stesura di composizioni, articoli, relazioni, recensioni.
Unit 1
A family affair
Listening: Young people talking about their families and activities
Vocabulary: phrasal verbs: get on with, do up….; collocations with make and do
Grammar: present perfect simple and continuous
Use of English: word formation (negative prefixes)
Reading: Parents are Human too, Do you help with household chores
Speaking: talking about yourself your home and your family
Writing: writing an essay. Expressing opinions. Using linking words for contrast (although,
however, on the other hand, whereas)
Unit 2
Leisure and pleasure
Reading: My first bike
Vocabulary: phrasal verbs and expressions: take up, sum up …….
Listening: A talk from a games developer
Grammar: making comparisons; adjectives with –ed and -ing
Use of English: key-word transformation
Speaking: comparing photos of free-time activities. Using discourse markers to structure the
answer
Writing: writing an article; writing compound and complex sentences using when, who, which,
that, but, and, because
Vocabulary and grammar review unit 1 and unit 2
Unit 3
Happy holidays?
Listening: Five young people talking about their holidays
Vocabulary: travel, journey, trip and way
Grammar: past simple, past continuous and used to; at, in or on in time phrases; past perfect
simple and continuous
Reading: A bus journey; My nightmare holiday!
Use of English: word formation: adding suffixes
Speaking: Discussing the benefits of different kinds of trip; phrases to involve partners in
discussion; Strategies for dealing with Part 3 of the First certificate exam
Writing: writing a story: a trip I’ll never forget
Unit 4
Food, glorious food
Listening: A radio interview about eating insects
Reading: Can chocolate make you smarter?; Moso, Moso; a restaurant review
Grammar: so and such, too and enough
Vocabulary: food, dish and meal; adjectives to describe restaurants
Use of English: multiple - choice cloze
Speaking: Discussing diet, food and health; supporting opinions with reasons and examples
Writing: writing a review: A local restaurant, café or snack bar
Vocabulary and grammar review unit 3 and unit 4
Unit 5
Study time
Listening: People talking about studying and school
Vocabulary: words connected with studying; phrasal verbs: live up to, hand back, get away with,
point out, put off, look back, drop out, find out; get to know, know, learn, teach, study, attend,
join, take part in, assist
Grammar: revision of if-clauses (zero, first, second, third conditional)
Use of English: word formation (forming nouns from verbs)
Ambito letterario
Dal testo di letteratura Spiazzi - Tavella, Only Connect….New Directions, ed. Zanichelli
 The Origins
o Celtic Britain pp. A4-5, The Romans p A9, The Anglo-Saxons pp. A10-11, The Conversion
to Christianity p A12, The Vikings and the end of Anglo-Saxon England pp. A13-14,
o Poems and Chronicles: the figure of the scop, the verse form (alliteration and kenning),
the riddle, old English prose pp. A16-17.
o The epic poem, p A22. Beowulf: plot, Beowulf’s origin, the mysteries of Beowulf, why
Beowulf is an epic, the language of epic style pp. A24-25
 The Middle Ages
o The Norman Conquest and feudalism.
o The medieval ballad p A56.
 Text 5 Lord Randal pp A60-61.
o Geoffrey Chaucer: biography, the father of English literature p A64. The Canterbury
Tales: the plot, the structure, the General Prologue, the characters, realism and
allegory Chaucer narrator, Chaucer’s verse, pp. A64-66.
 Text 8: The Prioress, pp A68-69.
o Medieval Drama p A53.
 The Renaissance
o The sonnet p. B16-17. The Elizabethan sonneteers p B27,
o William Shakespeare : life p B31. Shakespeare’s sonnets: the form, the themes and
addresses, style p B32.
 Text 14: Shall I compare thee p B 33.
 Text 17: My mistress’ eyes p B36.
o The development of drama p B21. The world of theatre: the permanent playhouse, the
architecture of theatres, the internal layout, Elizabethan and modern theatres, the
scenery, the actors p B21-22.
o Drama as a literary genre: the origins of drama, the elements of drama, tragedy, fixed
features, comedy, comprehension, structure and style, contextualisation p B23-24. The
features of a dramatic text: the structure, plot and sub-plot, setting, stage directions,
characters, Analysis of a character, dramatic techniques (dialogue, soliloquy,
monologue, asides), language p B25-26.
o Shakespeare the dramatist: the phases of his dramatic production (teacher’s notes),
dating the plays, a Shakespearean play. General features, characters, stage directions,
double illusion, the structure, variety of style, imagery, plot p B42-44.
Genova, 26 maggio 2015
Paola Poggi
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