A CENTURY OF CHANGE

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V Liceo Scientifico

B1

A Century of change (1750-1850)

1^st

- The Industrial Revolution

- Consequences of Industrialization

- Children at work

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s The cry of the Children

- Women’s struggle

- Wollsoncraft’s Vindication of the rights of women

- Reactions to Industrializations: Romanticism and the social Novel

- Dicken’s Hard Times and Oliver Twist

- Wordsworth’s Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

18 hours + 2 hours for revision

-Grammar structures necessary to talk about past events

-Vocabulary generally related to economic, social and political life

- Functions:

·        -Expressing opinions on a specific topic

·        -Describing events

·        -Understanding the main points of a topic

·        -Narrating a story

·        Understanding and analysing literary texts

·        Talking about past events

Language Activities:

< Written Reception:

·        Reading for the gist

·        Scanning/Skimming

< Oral Reception

·        Listening for the gist

·        Listening for detailed understanding

< Written Production

·        Taking notes

·        Writing brief essays on a given topic

<  Oral Production

·        Reading a written text aloud

·        Speaking from notes or from a written text or from visual aids

< Mediation

·        Translating piece of written texts in good Italian

·        Interpreting texts

< Interaction

·        Can express personal opinions and exchange information on a given topic

·        Can enter and maintain a conversation, even unprepared

Linguistic objectives:

·        Reinforcing grammatical structures

·        Enlarging vocabulary

·        Improving pronunciation and intonation

·        Improving interpretation or translation of a literary text

Communicative objectives:

·        Improving fluency

·        Exchanging information on a given topic

·        Promoting interaction through Group-works

Pedagogical objectives

·        Seeing connections between historical events, economic and social shifts and changes

·        Transferring learning into the outside reality

Formative objectives

·        Finding on the Internet pictures related to the topic

·        Promoting personal researches using books and computer

Linguistic Activities:

- Reinforcing reading strategies

- Reinforcing listening strategies

- Creating a glossary related to

      Industrialization

- discussing on a given topic

- Exchanging informations

Can do statements:

-Can express opinion on cultural matters

-Can gather information

-Can access information on the net

-Can use a dictionary

-Can understand reports

General Competences

-Declarative Knowledge (savoir)

·        Knowledge of socio-political features of England  in the 16^th century

·        Knowledge of socio-political transformations in England after 1750

- Skills and know-how (savoir-faire)

·        Can use grammatical structures necessary to ask, answer and talk about events in the past properly

·        Can go through a text autonomously

·        Can find connections among the topics

- Existential Competence (savoir-être)

·        attitudes, motivation, beliefs, cognitive styles, personality factors

·        exploiting learning situations to overcome personal or cognitive weakness

- Ability to learn (savoir-apprendre)

·        can observe and participate in new experiences

·        incorporate new knowledge, also modifying the latter

Communicative language competences

- Linguistic competences

·        has a sufficient range of language to explain the main points in an idea and express thoughts on abstract or cultural topics

·        clearly intelligible pronunciation even if a foreign accent is sometimes evident

·        accurate spelling and punctuation

·        Good control of elementary vocabulary

- Pragmatic Competences

·        can adapt his/her expressions to deal with difficult situations

·        can initiate, maintain  and close simple conversation on a given topic

·        can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected linear sequence of points

·        can express emotion on a given topic

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Evaluation

Repair

Textbook, Photocopies, Pages from Internet, Articles, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia

- Skimming and scanning a text

- Finding information using internet sites or encyclopaedia

-Writing an essay

- Finding out causes-effects nexus

- Reading and understanding a literary text within its historical, social and cultural context

- Finding pictures representing England during the Industrial Revolution

- Reporting to others the main results of the group-works

Flashcards, pictures, Internet, Textbook, Encyclopaedia, Blackboard

Questionnaires, structured and half-structured  tests, discussions, goal-orientated cooperation

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