From the Origins to Renaissance

History and Culture:

- From Pre- Celtic to Roman Britan;

- Anglo-Saxon - Vikings;  

- The Norman Conquest;

- Anarchy and Henry Plantagenet;

- From Magna Carta to the Peasant's Revolt.

Literary Context: 

-The Anglo-Saxon Poetry;

-  Beowulf - Beowulf and Grendel: the fight and  Beowulf's funeral (text analysis);

- Medieval ballads: Lord Randall; 

- Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales:  General Prologue, The Wife of Bath, The Prioress. 

The Renaissance and the Age of Shakespeare 

History and Culture:

- End of The Hundred years' War - The War of the Roses;

- The Early Tudors;

- Elizabeth I.

Literary Context:

- Renaissance and New Learning;

- William Shakespeare

-The sonnet: Shall I compare Thee - My Mistress' Eyes  (text analysis)

- The development of Drama:

The Globe theatre 

- Hamlet: Hamlet meets the ghost; To Be or not to Be 

- The Merchant of Venice: The quality of Mercy.

Preparazione First Certificate e consolidamento grammaticale, dal libro Ready for First, con il docente di conversazione:

Unit 1. Lifestyle – Habitual behaviour; tend to; frequency adverbs; used to and would. Vocabulary: Lifestyle; Get: expressions and meanings. Writing: Informal letter

Unit 2. High Energy. Indirect ways of asking questions. Gerunds and infinitives. Vocabulary: music, sport. Writing: Letter of application.

Unit 3. A change for the better? Comparisons; articles. Vocabulary: Technology. Writing: Essay

 Unit 4. A good story. So and such. Past tenses. Vocabulary: films.  Take: expressions and phrasal verbs. Writing a review