English in Common 4, by M.V. Saumell and S.L. Birchley, Pearson (2012) Tra parentesi trovi i numeri di pagina oppure il riferimento a materiali caricati su

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Language portfolio (pdf) How to use a dictionary: visual dictionary (appunti personali)

Form Meaning Use (appunti personali) Inflectional vs Periphrastic (appunti personali)

Unit 1: Relationships

Tense names (6) Grammatical categories (6)

Suffixes (6) Family nouns (6)

Family terms (7)

Collocations (8) Auxiliary verbs (8)

Yes / No questions (8) Simple presents and present continuous (13)

Present perfect and simple past (16) For and since (16)

Unit 2: In the media

Passive voice (21) Relative clauses (25)

Simple past and past continuous (28)

Unit 3: Home sweet home Types of houses (31)

Talking about the future (33)

Adjectives describing places (35) Comparatives and superlatives (37)

Compound nouns (38) Future possibility (39)

Unit 4: Wealth Question tags (46)

Modals of obligation and prohibition (48)

Conditionals (52)

Listening activities & pronunciation Listening strategies (appunti personali)

1.02 (8) 1.06 & 1.07 (22)

1.10 (23) 1.11 (27)

1.13 (33) 1.15 (35)

1.16 (38)

Speaking activities Personal information, 5a (9)

Make generalizations, 8a (10)

Guess who? (free activity)

Reading comprehensions Reading strategies (appunti personali)

Health and wealth (9) Free time and chat (10)

639 of your closes friends… (12) Brotherly love? (15)

On top of the media (20) Who wants to be a millionaire? (24)

Four stories (26) yourhome-myhome.com: property 1 & property 2 (32)

World’s greatest cities (36) The true story of a real fake (44)

Writing activities Esercitazioni progressive alla III Prova

Following instructions

Vocabulary Numbers (pdf from Headway Digital Pre-Intermediate and Headway Digital

Intermediate) Phrasal verbs (45)

Phrasal verbs 01-05 (pdf from Phrasal Verbs in Use Intermediate) Irregular verbs (151; pdf)

pdf 01-75 from Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate (con soluzioni fornite a termine trimestre)

Buildings (pdf) Houses, rooms and furniture (pdf)

Grammar reference Auxiliary verbs (127)

Simple present and present continuous (127)

Present perfect and simple past (127) For and since (127)

Phrasal verbs (127) The passive voice (128)

Relative clauses (128) Simple past and past continuous (128)

Talking about the future (129) Future possibility (129)

Comparatives and superlatives (129) Conditionals (130)

Modals of obligation and prohibition (130) Question tags (130)

Activating Grammar Digital Edition, di A. Gallagher e F. Galuzzi, Longman (2011)

Tra parentesi trovi il riferimento a materiali caricati su Dropbox; più in basso vi sono le Units tratte dal libro di testo.

Form – Meaning – Use (appunti personali)

Relative clauses (defining) (pdf) Relative clauses (non defining) (pdf)

Relative clauses (with where, when…) (pdf) Compound nouns (pdf from Oxford Practice Grammar)

Compound nouns (pdf from English Grammar in Use Advanced)

Paradigms (pdf)

Unit 68: present perfect simple Unit 69: present perfect simple with ever, already, just, still, yet

Unit 70: contrast: past simple / present perfect simple Unit 71: esercizi sommativi

Unit 72: present perfect continuous Unit 73: present perfect simple / present perfect continuous with for and since

Unit 74: contrast: present perfect simple / present perfect continuous Unit 79: relative pronouns (defining clauses)

Unit 80: direct / indirect object Unit 81: auxiliary verbs (so do I; neither do I; I think so; I hope so)

Unit 84: relative pronouns (non defining clauses) Unit 87: time linkers

Unit 88: connectors and sequencers

Unit 96: question tags

Unit 97: echo question

Unit 98: esercizi sommativi Unit 101: comparative of adjectives and adverbs

Unit 102: superlative of adjectives and adverbs

Unit 103: irregular comparatives and superlatives Unit 104: not as… as

Unit 105: quite, rather, very Unit 106: so, such

Unit 107: esercizi sommativi Unit 108: modifier of comparative form

Unit 109: less… than; the least Unit 110: like, as, as if, as though

Unit 112: present continuous used for the future Unit 113: be going to

Unit 114: future simple (will) Unit 115: contrast: be going to / present continuous / will

Unit 116: present simple for future use Unit 117: certainty and possibility (may and might)

Unit 118: esercizi sommativi

Unit 119: future continuous Unit 120: future perfect

Unit 121: future in the past Unit 122: esercizi sommativi

Unit 123: ability and possibility (present) Unit 124: permission

Unit 125: requests Unit 126: offers

Unit 127: invitations Unit 128: proposals

Unit 129: obligation and prohibition Unit 130: obligation and necessity

Unit 131: advice and criticism Unit 132: deductions

Unit 133: esercizi sommativi

Unit 134: ability (past) Unit 135: lack of necessity

Unit 136: had better; It’s time Unit 137: modals used for deductions in the past and other tenses

Unit 138: esercizi sommativi Unit 139: conditional sentences; zero conditional

Unit 140: first conditional Unit 141: second conditional

Unit 142: esercizi sommativi Unit 143: third conditional

Unit 144: I wish / if only + past simple, could, past continuous Unit 145: I wish / if only + would, past perfect, could have

Unit 146: esercizi sommativi Unit 157: passive: present and past simple

Unit 158: passive: other tenses and modals

Unit 159: passive with verbs followed by two objects Unit 160: have / get + object + p. participle; need + -ing

Unit 161: esercizi sommativi

Appendix on Phrasal verbs (462-465) Appendix on prefixes and suffixes (468-469)

World Around, by M. Cleary, Helbling Languages (2009) Tra parentesi trovi i numeri di pagina oppure il riferimento a materiali caricati su

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The United States of America: icons (65) US: the flag (pdf)

The US: Political map (pdf) The US: Regions and states (pdf)

The US: States and Cities (pdf) The US: Geography (pdf)

The US: from the East to the West coast (pdf)

America or the United States? (66) Thanksgiving (pdf)

New Year’s Eve (pdf) MLK Day (pdf)

The US: the natural landscape (Niagara Falls; Yosemite Park; Yellowstone park) (video and pdf)

New York City: the city that never sleeps (pdf) NYC monuments (pdf)

The Unites States and the Unanimous Declaration (67) The Star-Spangled Banner (67)

US National Anthem (video) Guns at school (74)

Black history (68-69) Black People in the US (pdf)

Native Americans (pdf)

Culture clash (pdf) The US political system (pdf)

2016 Presidential election (pdf and personal presentation by E. De Fazio)

Canada’s icons (79) Canadian stars and movies (ricerca personale)

Canada: geography (pdf) Canada is… not the US! (80)

What is Canadian? (80; video) Ice Hockey (82)

Canada: history (pdf)

Canada: people (pdf)

The West Indies: icons (87)

Caribbean: geography (pdf) Caribbean: Wikpedia portal (website)

A colonial past (88) Creole (88)

Pirates of the Caribbean (89) Reggae (90)

Australian icons (99)

Australian stars and movies (ricerca personale) Australia is the most… (96)

Living tin the outback (99) The aborigines (100)

Uluru (101) The Aboriginal flag (101)

New Zealand New Zealand geography (pdf)

Aotearoa (104)

Analysis sheet of movies (pdf) Analysis sheet of songs (pdf)

Analysis sheet of performer (pdf)

Ten Women Ten Stories, a cura di A. Mignani, Blackcat (1992) Approfondimento dell’analisi testuale (text, real world, fictional world,

sender/receiver, message, narrator/narratee) attraverso la lettura, analisi e attività correlate ai seguenti racconti:

- ‘Hannah’ (M. Whitaker)

- ‘The unicorn in the garden’ (J. Thurber) - ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ (R. Dahl)

- ‘The way up to heaven’ (R. Dahl)

My Way, by F. Sinatra (1969)

New York, New York (1977; L. Minnelli) New York, New York (1979; F. Sinatra)

That’s Amore (1953; Dean Martin)

Welcome to the Jungle (1987; Guns n’ Roses)

Animal Farm (1954; J. Batchelor & J. Halas) Nigthmare on Elm Street (1984; W. Craven)

The Matrix (1999; the Wachowski brothers)

In accordo con la programmazione stabilita a inizio anno, si è attivato un

modulo interdisciplinare con la docente di Lettere in cui si sono letti e analizzati

i testi ‘If’ di R. Kipling e ‘If thou must love me’ di E. Barrett Browning in italiano e in lingua originale.

Baranzate, 7 giugno 2016

Gli studenti Il docente Francesco Roncacci

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