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1 LICEO GINNSIO JCOPO STELLINI Piazza I Maggio, Udine Tel Fax Codice fiscale info@liceostellini.it - Indirizzo Internet: - PEC: udpc010005@pec.istruzione.it PROGRMM SVOLTO NNO SCOLSTICO 2014/2015 CLSSE 1^ SEZ. PROF. MTERI SIR MNDL INGLESE Udine, lì 11 GIUGNO 2015 Dal testo English File Third Edition Pre-Intermediate, ed. Oxford: 1

2 UD 1, settembre novembre 2014 File 8 I don t know what to do! (revision) GRMMR ND FUNCTION: sking for / Giving advice from File 11 re you a morning person? C What a coincidence! GRMMR: o phrasal verbs from o so/neither (agreeing/disagreeing) from Dal testo English File Third Edition Upper Intermediate ed. Oxford: File 1 Questions and answers Do you believe in it? COLLOQUIL ENGLISH 1 GRMMR: Question tags an echo questions from UD 2, dicembre 2014 gennaio 2015 File 2 Call the doctor? Older and wiser? REVISE ND CHECK 1&2 VOCULRY: Personalituy adjectives and phrases UD 3, febbraio marzo 2015 File 3 The truth about air travel Incredibly short stories COLLOQUIL ENGLISH 2&3 GRMMR, FUNCTIONS ND VOCULRY: Narrative texts and tenses form (narrative tenses; Incident on a Plane; Creepy Story; Time Expressions) VOCULRY: Time fillers File 4 Eco-guilt 2

3 UD 4, aprile maggio 2015 File 4 re you a risk taker? REVISE ND CHECK 3&4 COMMUNICTIVE FUNCTIONS: Talking bout The Future (Future Perfect and Continuous) The War of the Worlds by S. Spielberg,2005 (opening sequences) REDING: The War of the Worlds by George Herbert Wells* (from Chapter 1) The survivors club Gli studenti hanno svolto le attività previste dal Workbook, relative alle unità analizzate. Ulteriori approfondimenti, esercitazioni o integrazioni relativi alle funzioni linguistiche analizzate e relativi esponenti grammaticali e lessicali sono stati tratti dalla grammatica di riferimento in possesso degli studenti (Language and Vocabulary Multi-Trainer, ed. Longman) o da siti didattici Internet. GRMMR EXPONENTS Sentence structure with phrasal verbs 11 So, neither + auxiliaries 11C Questions formation uxiliary verbs: the.the..+ comparativi Present perfect simple e continuous djectives as nouns Narrative tenses, past perfect continuous So/such that dverbs and adverbial phrasesa and their position in the sentence Future perfect and future continuous Conditional sentences types 1(revision) and 2 Unreal conditionals, type 3 LEXICL RES Phrasa verbs Similarity Compound adjectives and modifiers Illnesses and wounds Clothes and fashion Feelings ir travel Weather and environment Expressions with like dverbs and adverial phrases COMMUNICTIVE FUNCTIONS Giving and asking for advice Talking about past experiences greeing / disagreeing Talking about life styles, family relations, people s activities Reacting to a piece of news / to a strange story Talking about personality 3

4 Talking about a job interview Talking about first aid and health Describing physical appearance Talking about fashion Talking about an episode Giving examples Talking about air travels Talking about reading habits Talking about recycling Talking about the weather Talking about risks Talking about feelings Talking about emergences UD 1, settembre novembre 2014 LITERRY GENRES (Power Point presentation, partly based on Literature for Life 1 LIM OOK)* Features of Poetry Propper English, The Eraser Poem, This Is the First Thing, The Duck Layout and Sense Concrete poems L/, by e.e. cummings My Grandmother by E. Jennings (stanza forms) Language and Sense Dreams by L. Hughes (figures of speech) Sound and Sense In Flanders Fields by J. McCrae (types of rhyme, excerpts form various poems) There Was a Naughty oy, by J. Keats (rhythm) Upon His Departure Hence by R. Herrick (rhythm, stress patterns) Metre (feet and syllables) Life Doesn t Frighten Me by M. ngelou (word /structure / sound repetition; consonant and vowel sounds, figures of sound) VIDEO: Reading, acting and performing, ed LOescher rian yres on the iambic pentameter Layout, Soung, Language and Theme Faintheart in a Railway Train, by T. Hardy (text analysis) Standard Forms Limericks by E. Lear (Lear s life and works) LISTENING: Nonsense, a Tribute to the Great Late Edward Lear, Speak Up- June 2005 THE IMGE: Lear s watercolours CRETIVE WRITING: My Own Limerick Dramatic Poetry Francis Turner, Julia Miller, Lucinda Metlock from Spoon River nthology by E. Lee Masters THE SONG: Un malato di cuore, Preghiera in gennaio di F. De ndrè 4

5 Free verse (hints) Mrs Darwin, by C. nn Duffy Lyric poetry (hints) UD 2, dicembre 2014 gennaio 2015 Dal testo Literature for Life, Volume 2 ed. Loescher: FROM THE EGINNINGS TO THE 1700s In rief Warm Up N OLD ENGLISH EPIC eowulf T1-4 RESERCH DOCUMENTS (D1-4, pp ) SY IT RIGHT (p.17) nglo-saxon Poetry, Power Point presentation*: o The Futhark o eowulf, a sample of the original version o eowulf ( Fiend Out of Hell; In-off the Moors) o The Seafarer (I heard no sound but the sea s smash) o Three Exeter ook Riddles MULTIMEDI ZONE ges of English timeline ( nglo Saxons and Vikings) UD 3, febbraio marzo 2015 allads, Power Point presentation* o Types of ballads o The Demon Lover o COMPRING LITERTURES: Dante s il folle volo o Geordie (Literature for Life 1 LIM OOK) o MUSIC: Geordie,,by F. De ndrè lind Fiddler, an merican ballad Jesus Christ by W. Guthrie o THE IMGE: roadside ballads* Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales (pp ) RESERCH DOCUMENTS (D1-2, pp ) The Canterbury Tales, Power Point presentation* o The Wife of ath o REDING: Donna di ath, excerpt from the script of Racconti di Canterbury, Trilogia della vita, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cappelli ologna 1975 o The Prioress 5

6 o The Knight o The Pardoner Everyman, Power Point presentation* Prologue, part 1 COMPRING TEXTS: Everyman and The Canterbury Tales, Prologue amd setting Sonnets, Power Point presentation*: UD 4, aprile maggio 2015 o Types of sonnets o I Find no Peace* by Sir Thomas Wyatt o COMPRING LITERTURES: sonetto CXXXIV di Francesco Petrarca o One Day I Wrote Her Name*, moretti LXXV by Edmund Spencer o MUSIC: Ho scritto t amo sulla sabbia (Franco IV e Franco I) o Sonnet CXXX- My mistress eyes by William Shakespeare o MUSIC: lue Eyes by Elton John UD 5, maggio - giugno 2015 Features of Drama, Power Point presentation*: o General features from o Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher THE CONTEXT, The Development of ritish Literature Drama, pp (from The Origins of Medieval Drama to The End of Medieval Drama) Oscar Wilde The Importance of eing Earnest (Literature for Life. Volume 1, Section 3 Learning bout Drama, T 34 pp LIM OOK) THE FILM: The Importance of eing Earnest, sequences from the film version by. squith (1952) Samuel eckett Waiting for Godot* (Didi and Gogo; the boy; Pozzo and Lacky from eckett on Film DVD) Romeo + Juliet by uz Luhrmann, 1996 *Testi e supporti contrassegnati da asterisco sono stati forniti dall insegnante. 6

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