Quarta M - Inglese (Lingua e cultura straniera) | 2022-2023

GRAMMAR

• Future forms: Present simple, Present continuous, will, be going to
• Shall
• Future continuous and future perfect
• Future time clauses
• Passive forms
• Have/get something done
• Verbs of advice and obligation
• Verbs of permission and ability 
• Could vs was/were able to
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Quantifiers
• A little/A few vs Little/few
• Reported statements 
• Reported questions
• Reported speech: other changes
• Reporting verbs

VOCABULARY

• Easily confused words: travel
• Travel and transport
• Uses of get
• Phrasal verbs: travel
• Migration
• Extreme adjectives
• Easily confused words: migration

WRITING

• Story
• Formal email
• Informal letter

LETTERATURA

• The Restoration of the Monarchy
• Literature of the Restoration
• Order and imperial expansion in the Augustan Age
• Literature in the Augustan age
• Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels 
• Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
• Extracts: The means of survival (from "Robinson Crusoe"), The building of language (from "Gulliver's Travels"), Mysteries of the heart (from "Clarissa").

Capitolo 4: The Romantic Age

• An age of Revolutions
• Romantic Poetry
• Romantic Poets: the first generation
• William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
• William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads
• S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Romantic poets: the Second Generation
• Extracts: The Chimney sweeper (in both versions, from "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" by W.Blake); I wandered lonely as a cloud (from "Poems in Two volumes" by W.Wordsworth); There was a ship (from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by S.T.Coleridge)