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a.s. 2012-2013

New!! Per gli studenti con sospensione di giudizio, fare click qui per le attività sulle strutture grammaticali da esercitare

Ecco finalmente le letture "speciali" in preparazione a quella parte di programma del 4° anno che tratterà argomenti legati alle materie di indirizzo. Sono per lo più "reading comprehensions" con quesiti a risposta multipla o T/F (le soluzioni con sempre disponibili a fine pagina)
 * SUMMER READING **
 * a) READING FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE (social sciences) **

[|How to be a good citizen?] [|Stereotypes] [|Brain drain] [|Education] [|Youth] [|Obesity]

Cinque opere di Shakespeare incentrate sul tema dell’amore. In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina impara ad amare Petruccio dopo aver imparato ad essere una moglie obbediente. L’amore di Romeo e Giulietta è destinato a finire in tragedia. In Twelfth Night, l’amore è romantico ma anche doloroso, mentre in Othello l’amore si trasforma in gelosia. E infine, l’amore appassionato di Antonio e Cleopatra.
 * b) LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE **

The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times
 * Dossier**:

978-88-530-1097-1 Book (112 p.) + CD Prezzo 9,80 €

A WARM WELCOME TO MY NEW CLASS !

Our class wiki is used as an e-portfolio of the students' work as well as a place to share material and online resources. As you saw last Monday, it also hosts class projects aimed at improving your reading and writing skills.

I HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY USING "WIKIORKIWI" :-)) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Mrs Wiki

A promise is a promise... Open the document below to read the keys for exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Reported Questions)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">APRIL **



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As I told you this morning, MODAL verbs undergo the following changes:


 * ** Direct Speech ** ||  ** Reported Speech **  ||
 * ** can ** ||  ** could **  ||
 * "I can stay here until Sunday" || He said he could stay there until Sunday ||
 * "I can do this alone" || He said that he could do that alone ||
 * ** may ** ||  ** might **  ||
 * "I may go fishing next weekend" || He said he might go fishing next weekend ||
 * "We may travel to Europe" || They said that they might travel to Europe ||
 * ** will ** ||  ** would **  ||
 * "I will stay here" || He said that he would stay there ||
 * "I will not go away" || He said that he wouldn't go away ||
 * ** must ** ||  ** had to **  ||
 * "I must work everyday" || He said he had to work everyday ||
 * "I must not arrive late" || He said he didn't have to arrive late ||

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 * ** Direct Speech ** ||  ** Reported Speech **  ||
 * now || then, at that moment ||
 * today || that day ||
 * tonight || that night ||
 * last night || the previous night, the night before ||
 * this morning || that morning ||
 * tomorrow || the next day, the following day ||
 * yesterday || the previous day, the day before ||
 * this week || that week ||
 * next week || the following week, the week after ||
 * last year || the previous year, the year before ||
 * next year || the following year, the year after ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From __dialogue to reported speech.__ Transform this dialogue in reported speech (The solution is just under the picture but read it only after you finish the activity!!) Peter Burms and his wife Vera arrive at St James’s Hospital and ask for Doctor Jefferson. Dr. Jefferson: What can I do for you? Peter Burms: Err,err. Dr. Jeff: Are you nervous, sir? (writes down) ‘patient complains about his nerves’ Peter: But doctor… Dr.Jeff.: How long have you been ill ? Peter: but I’m not ill, sir.



Doctor Jeff. Asked what he could do. Peter replied with hesitation, at which Dr. Jeff asked if he was a bit nervous. Then, Dr. Jeff. wrote down in a black diary that that patient had complains about his nerves. Peter wondered, saying only a short "but doctor". After that, Dr.Jeff. looked upwards and asked him how long he had been ill. Peter answered that he was not ill.
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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From __reported speech to dialogue.__ Mrs Jenkins asked Peter, her son, what he was doing. He told his mother that he was trying to sell all his video games. She asked him why he wanted to do that. Peter replied that he didn’t like them because they were old games and that he would try to buy a new game. Mrs Jenkins ordered him not to sell anything without his father's permission.


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">MARCH/APRIL **

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== <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Now, click on the **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;">links below for more practice ** **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;">//on the reported speech// ** == <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">**(remember the proverb: //practice makes perfect//**

=== [|reported commands] === === [|reported commands](negative) === === [|how to report simple statements] === === [|how to report statements] (with time adverbials) === === [|how to report questions] === === [|how to report questions] (a bit more challenging than the previous one) ===


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">LITERATURE **


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The Canterbury Tales - Project Work **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">In order to choose your own pilgrim, you have to read **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">the General Prologue (in your textbook there are only **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">few extracts). If you open the link below, you'll find **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">the General Prologue. DON'T WORRY, it's not very long!!! **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/duallang1.htm

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here below is the link for the ones who would like to listen to it (audio version)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://archive.org/details/canterburytales_librivox <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">(top right of the web page, choose the MP3 file " The General Prologue")


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">If the links are not enough, enjoy this video ... **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Have fun :-) and... **


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">SEE YOU ON 22nd APRIL ! **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">FEBRUARY 2013 **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">links to practise.... for the test! **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">JANUARY 2013 **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Here's the file (if-clauses, only type 1 and 2, unless/until/as soon as, etc) **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Some links for further practice (OPTIONAL). If you are good at **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">using the conditional sentences,leave wikispaces and do **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">something different :-) **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">DECEMBER 2012 **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Hi there! Hope you are not worried about next week's test... <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">As I promised you, I have just uploaded some files on <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">some basic "collocations", hoping they will be of some <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">help. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">You can save (and print) them to your desktop.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">BREAK A LEG! (= it's an idiom, sort of " in bocca al lupo!")


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">NOVEMBER 2012 **


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">GRAMMAR : **__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Future time clauses __

if clause
or imperative or Modal + infinitive ||
 * ~ if clause ||~ main clause ||
 * Simple Present || will-future


 * examples: **
 * If I study, || I will pass the exams. ||
 * If you see John tonight, || tell him to e-mail me. ||
 * If Ben gets up early, || he can catch the bus. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The if-clause can be __at the beginning__ or __at the end__ of the sentence :


 * If I study, || I will pass the exams. ||
 * I will pass the exams || if I study . ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Now, open these links to do some practice


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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The 1st conditional sentence structure can also be used to talk about the future. You can use conjunctions of time [when, before, after, as soon as, until] instead of if in the condition / dependent clause. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">They are always followed by the present simple tense:


 * When **

> //I’ll wash the dishes ** when ** my TV show is over.// > //I’ll come inside ** when ** it gets dark.// > //He’s going to be a policeman ** when ** he’s older!//


 * Before **

> //I’ll finish this report ** before ** I leave tonight.// > //Please take the garbage out ** before ** you go to work today.// > //He’ll call you ** before ** he goes out tonight.//


 * After **

> //I’ll eat dinner ** after ** I finish my homework// > // **After** she graduates from university she’ll need to find a job!// > //He’ll look for a place to live ** after ** he finds a job.//


 * Until **

> //I’ll sit outside ** until ** it gets dark.// > //I will keep looking for my car keys ** until ** I find them!// > //We’ll wait ** until ** the rain stops, then we’ll go outside.//


 * As soon as **

> //I’ll wash the dishes ** as soon as ** this TV show is over.// > //Call me ** as soon as ** you get in.// > //We’ll start the meeting ** as soon as ** the CEO arrives.// > //The band will start playing ** as soon as ** everyone arrives//

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Try these on line activities for further practice:
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">POETRY **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Listen to the poem "Dreams" read by Ben Leffel **

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2012


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Literature: let's get started with fiction... **

Complete the following worksheet Christian name: Family name: An alternative first name: Her age: she must be ... Her occupation: Her social class: Her character: Her project: The promise she made:
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">//Eveline// is a short story by James Joyce. The full text with the MP3 file to download will give you t ****<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">he possibility to read and listen at the same time, especially for the students who haven't bought the textbook yet **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(LITERATURE FOR LIFE by D. ELLIS, Loescher Ed, light edition). **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Here's the [|link]to //Eveline.// If the link doesn't work, you can try **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|this one] **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The short story (without MP3 file) is also available here **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Enjoy your reading (and listening) and don't forget the assignment for 5th November: **
 * 1- A portrait of the main character **

Her relatives: Father: Mother: Siblings: Her lover's name and occupation:
 * 2- Other characters **

Name of the shop: Country: Town:
 * 3- The setting **

Eveline's relationships with her father:
 * 4- Relationships **

Eveline's life and status at home:

Eveline's relationships with her boyfriend:

Eveline's life and status in Buenos Ayres:


 * 6- Narrative technique. __Match the extracts and the technique used__. **

She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. (l 1a) 'Come !' (l 50c) Was that wise? (l 43a) Escape! She must escape! (l 6c) He said she used to squander the money, ... (l 10b) 'I know these sailor chaps,' he said (l 56b)

a) Indirect speech b ) Third person narrative c) Free direct speech d) Direct speech e) Free indirect speech f) Free indirect speech


 * 7- The structure 'Used to' is repeated time and time again throughout the short-story. **

Find three occurrences of the structure:

What does that reveal about Eveline?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">OCTOBER 2012
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It's time for a test... **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Need some training? Here's a mock test for you! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">( "mock" means //imitation//, a facsimile of the test)

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As I promised you, you can find the material about our first project: literature (Module 1) and creative writing. Download the documents below and print them for next Monday/Tuesday (8th/9th October). Here's the short version of the famous story "A Tell-Tale Heart" by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe:



Here below, the assignment and the worksheet:





And... don't forget to use the **PAST CONTINUOUS** tense __at least twice__ (closely associated with the the SIMPLE PAST) in your own story!

There are also some links for you to practise the two tenses if you still feel uncomfortable about them :

- [|The Past Continuous Tense] (rules and exemples, and a series of online exercises ) - [|The Past Continuous and the Simple Past](online activity) -[|The Past Continuous and the Simple Past](online exercise)