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

GRAMMAR

• 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

• Sport
• Easily confused words: sport
• Phrasal verbs with take
• The weather
• Talking about natural disasters
• Talking about risk and danger
• Phrasal verbs with out

WRITING

• Formal email
• Informal letter
• Essay

LETTERATURA

Capitolo 3: From the Puritan Age to the Augustan Age

• Charles I and the Civil War
• Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth
• The Restoration
• The Augustan Age
• Puritan and Restoration Literature
• English Poetry in the 17th century
• Restoration Prose
• The New Life of Drama
• The Age of Classicism
• Poetry in the Age of Newspapers and Novels
• The Age of Prose
• John Donne: Songs and Sonnets
• The Rise of the Novel
• Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• Excerpts: Death be not proud (from "Songs and Sonnets" by J.Donne); Robinson wants to leave England (from "Robinson Crusoe" by D.Defoe); The Academy of Lagado (from "Gulliver's Travels" by J.Swift).

Capitolo 4: The Romantic Age

• Britain and the American Revolution
• The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
• The Industrial Revolution
• Poetry:Pre-Romantic Trends
• Two Generations of Romantic Poets
• Romantic Fiction
• William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
• William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads
• S.T.Coleridge: the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Excerpts: The Lamb, The Tyger (from "Songs of Innocence and Experience" by W.Blake); I wandered lonely as a cloud (from "Poems in Two Volumes" by W. Wordsworth); Instead of the Cross, the Albatross (from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by S.T.Coleridge); Ozymandias (by P.B.Shelley).