Materiale di approfondimento prof. Massimo Boi

email address:   massimo.boi@iispandinipiazza.edu.it

ADVANCED COMMUNICATION COURSE

Some notes about Titanic

Homework for DAY 2       Character and personality     A few questions about Titanic (1)

Homework for DAY 3                                   School life                               A few questions about Titanic (2)

Homework for DAY 4                           Action and protest                        A few questions about Titanic (3)

Homework for DAY 5                             Medical science                           A few questions about Titanic (4)

Homework for DAY 6                                      Travel                                    A few questions about Titanic (5)

Homework for DAY 7                      Fashion and commerce                    A few questions about Titanic (6)

Homework for DAY 8                     Politics and government                   A few questions about Titanic (7)

Homework for DAY 9                         Managing your time                       A few questions about Titanic (8)

Homework for DAY 10                       Honesty and morals                      A few questions about Titanic (9)

Homework for DAY 11

Homework for DAY 12

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MINICORSO FIRST STEPS :   minicorso 1       minicorso 2         minicorso 3      minicorso 4      minicorso 5      minicorso 6       minicorso 7      minicorso 8

NOTES FOR BIENNIO:  Daily routine        Describing people        Inviting people        Food and drink        Clothes and prices       Free time        Climate and geography

Expressions with BE

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STARTING REVISION 2

COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS

Quantifiers

Could, Must, Should

Must, have to, had to

Possessive Pronouns and WHOSE

Future

Present Perfect

Comparative and Superlative

WORDLISTS:    Families        Furniture        Prepositions of place        Possessions         Free time and money         Holiday activities

Geographical features          Health and lifestyle

Personality adjectives           People in sport         Character and attitude

Internet

School life

Action and protest – a campaign

Books and films

Talking about art

TRAVELLING  (“Your Hotel”; “Emergency”)

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STARTING REVISION 3

Your TIMETABLE

Present Perfect with FOR and SINCE

FEEL LIKE +..

Parts of the Body

Character and attitude

Would you like to be…

Must, have to, had to

Past Perfect

Should (Could)+have+past participle

Reflexive pronouns + each other

SO and SUCH

TOO and NOT ENOUGH

Instead of, even if, etc.

BE USED & GET USED TO

FIRST CONDITIONAL

SECOND CONDITIONAL

THIRD CONDITIONAL

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Present Perfect Continuous

PASSIVE

WORDLISTS:    PARTS OF THE BODY and INJURIES

Fracture, sprain and strain           Medical science

Relationships             Feelings       

Politics and government

 Freddie and Friends

“IDENTITY B2”: Wordlists

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 1

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 2

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 3

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 4

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 5

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 6

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 7

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 8

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 9

IDENTITY B2 – Wordlist 10

• DESCRIBING PICTURES in the SPEAKING TEST
• COMPARING PICTURES in the SPEAKING TEST
• PICTURES FOR SPEAKING TEST

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Story of English

POETRY

Chaucer and Boccaccio

Canterbury Tales – The Prioress

Canterbury Tales and Decameron

CHAUCER and ENGLISH

DRAMA (definitions)

Doctor Faustus-plot

Doctor Faustus – extract

Faustus’s final soliloquy

Romeo and Juliet – plot

HAMLET – plot

HAMLET – To be or not to be

Shakespeare’s dramatic production

NARRATIVE TEXT

Rise of the Novel

Robinson Crusoe – plot

Robinson Crusoe – extract

Gulliver’s Travels – plot 

Gulliver’s Travels – extract

SATIRE

PHRASAL VERBS

WORDLISTS:  Environment       Travel       Looking for a job

Managing your time        Uses of GET

Honesty and morals        Reporting verbs         Reported speech

Fashion and commerce

 

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Syllabus Class 5

Industrial Revolution

Rousseau, Romanticism and Neoclassicism

ROMANTIC POETS

Blake – THE LAMB and THE TYGER

Blake’s DUAL VISION OF GOD

Blake’s LONDON

Blake’s ELOHIM CREATING ADAM

Gothic Novel

Frankenstein – plot

Frankenstein – extract

Frankenstein – features and themes

Frankenstein and the Ethics of Science

Jane Eyre – plot

Jane Eyre – extract

Jane Eyre – features and themes

Dickens – life and works

Poverty and the Poor Laws

OLIVER TWIST – plot

OLIVER TWIST – extract

OLIVER TWIST – satire

Whitman’s I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

Cold War

Vietnam War

Springsteen’s BORN IN THE U.S.A.

Hippie Movement and Vietnam War

Hopper’s GAS

Wilde – life and works

Victorian Age and Victorian Society

Dorian Gray – Preface

Dorian Gray – plot

Dorian Gray – extract

Wilde – Art for Art’s sake

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s LADY LILITH

World War One

Wilfred Owen – life

Dulce et Decorum Est

A few words about Joyce

ULYSSES – plot

ULYSSES – extract

MODERNISM and STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS and INTERIOR MONOLOGUE

Picasso’s Weeping Woman

Hemingway – life and works

Hemingway – The Killers (plot)

Hemingway – The Killers (extract)

Hemingway’s style

Orwell – life and works

Nineteen Eighty-Four – plot

Nineteen Eighty-Four – extract

Nineteen Eighty-Four – themes

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot – extract

Theatre of the Absurd

Giacometti’s WALKING MAN

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FCE Score

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CLIL  –  LEARNING SELF DEFENCE IN ENGLISH

CLIL  – SELF DEFENCE  (introductory information)

CLIL – SELF DEFENCE AND AWARENESS

CLIL – FIRST AID