Liceo Classico “Vittorio Emanuele II”

Napoli

Programma di Inglese

Anno scolastico 2016-17

Classe II B

Docente : G. Cimino

Libri di testo : Maglioni, Thomson Literary Hyperlinks 2 , Cideb

Brook- Hart, Complete First 2nd ed

LANGUAGE Unit : 5

Study time

Reading and use of English Part 7 : “at school abroad”

Identifying main ideas in questions , underlining evidence in the text

Reading and use of English Part 3 : “Culture shock for international students”

Writing Part 1 : An essay

Writing an essay; writing opening paragraphs; using linking words and phrases

Listening Part 1 : People talking about studying and school

Speaking Part 1 : Talking about studying and educational experiences; giving reasons in answers

Vocabulary : Words connected with education – phrasal verbs : get over, live up to etc ; find out get to know , know,

learn , teach and study; attend , join, take part and assist – forming nouns from verbs

Grammar : zero, first and second conditionals

Unit 6 – My first job

Reading and use of English part 5 : “Lucy’s first job” : scanning the text ; training in understanding the text before

reading the multiple- choice options

Reading and use of English Part 2 : “Anew summer programme” - Reviewing language work done previously in the

unit

Writing Part 2 .A letter or an email : Describe a job students do in your country

Analyzing the task; planning ; spelling mistakes

Listening Part 3: Listening to five people talking about their first job ; listening for gist ; identifying key ideas in

questions

Speaking Part 2 : Comparing photos – describing similarities and differences when comparing - phrases for

expressing similarities and making comparisons

Vocabulary : work, job, possibility, occasion and opportunity, fun , funny; collocations with job and work; lexis to

describe jobs : involve, deal with etc

Grammar : countable and uncountable nouns; using piece, bit, deal, amount and number with countable and

uncountable nouns; definite and indefinite articles; zero article

Unit 7 High Adventure

Reading and use of English part 6 “Are you ready for an adventure race?”

Understanding the structure and organization of the text ¸using cohesive features and reference devices Part 4 : Key word transformation Grammar : infinitive and verb +-ing

LITERATURE

1 From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age : Poetry

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 130

John Donne-

Life- Works – Unconventional poetry – Sensual and spiritual imagery

Video - The 3 Lives of John Donne; Why Metaphysical : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ulrvt-7xU

The Sun Rising

2 - The Rise of the Novel : from Defoe to Jane Austen

The rise of Puritanism : Charles I : an absolute king – The English civil war and the Commonwealth – The puritans – Puritan beliefs Poetry during the Puritan Age The Restoration and the Augustan Age The Restoration of the Monarchy –The libertines – A new kind of monarchy – Chains of history – Literature during the Restoration Restoration Prose and the Rise of Rationalism – The Augustan Age : The beginning of the Hanoverian Dynasty – The Augustan Age – The Rise of the Middle Classes – Augustan Aesthetics

Augustan Literature : Augustan Prose – Augustan Poetry – Augustan Drama – The Rise of the Novel

Daniel Defoe Life and works – Focus on Robinson Crusoe : the plot - stylistic features – interpretations Robinson Crusoe “I was born of a Good Family”*

“Friday”

Samuel Richardson

Life and works - The moralizing aim – Characterization – The epistolary novel – Narrative technique – Focus on Pamela : plot, characters, themes *

Pamela, or the Virtue Rewarded Letters VII and VIII *

Video : Samuel Richardson's Virtue Rewarded: Why Pamela is Virtuous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScommJZz3Mk

Henry Fielding

Life and works - Life and works – Focus on Tom Jones : the plot - features of the novel : the criteria of realism - freedom and predestination – Uses and transformation of works of the past – The treatment of character – Intrusive narrator - comic-heroic novel

Tom Jones “The other woman”

Shamela Letter II – Letter III – Letter V *

Laurence Sterne

Life and works – Focus on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman : the plot – features of the novel : time and digressions, role of narrator , role of the reader , typographical techniques, self-reflexive novel

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman

“My Opinions will be the Death of Me”

“The Straight Story”

Jonathan Swift

Life and works – Focus on Gulliver’s Travels : plot , features of the novel , interpretations

A Modest proposal

rap version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0LH8FtHAc

Jane Austen

Life and works – Focus on Sense and Sensibility : plot, interpretations - Focus on Pride and Prejudice : the plot, features of the novel, the entomologist of human relationships.

Sense and Sensibility “Are my Ideas so Scanty?”

Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged”

Historical context of Jane Austen’s novels : The Age of Revolutions

American Revolution– The French Revolution – The Napoleonic Wars - The Industrial Revolution – Agrarian revolution - Fair Trade and Political Repression – The Right to Protest – The Road to Reform – The Abolition of Slavery - Echoes of war in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Historical context for Pride and Prejudice : https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/node/1765

3 - Romantic Poetry : A New Way of Seeing the World

Literature in the Romantic Age

Hotlink : Comparative Literature : Isn’t it Romantic? – Poetic Visions

Hotlink - Philosophy : The Sublime

Characteristics of Romanticism – The first generation of Romantic poets

Hotlink- Cultural Studies : The Transformation of the Landscape in the Romantic Age – Enclosure and The Dislocation of the Poor

Thomas Gray

Life – works – Focus on Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: Gray and the sublime – a meditation on loss and solitude – between Classicism and Romanticism

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Blake

Life – Works – Focus on Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience- Blake’s symbolism – A world of imagination and vision – stylistic – features

Songs of Innocence

Infant Joy

The Lamb

Songs of Experience Infant Sorrow

The Tyger

London

William Wordsworth

Life – Works – The Lyrical Ballads – The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads : a poetic manifesto

Michael

Tables turned She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

*Photocopied material

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Napoli, maggio 2017

La docente

Giovanna Cimino