Tuesday, September 29, 2020

# Restoration and Augustan Age

LED IN

Here's a video depicting the important historical moments of the 17th and 18th centuries and its impact on English literature and a video that introduce the Augustan literature:



HOMEWORK
Answer the following questions:
  1. After Charles I exile, what kind of period did England move to? 
  2. Which religious ideals characterized that period?
  3. The Monarchy was restored in 1660 with Charles II. Form a literature point of view, what was it also the restoration of?
  4. What kind of poetry grew up in this period? 
  5. What was the most common matter?
  6. What was the new topic introduced in prose? And what was its most common genre?
  7. What was reinforced during Mary and William's reign?
  8. What was the origin of the Hanoverians House?
  9. This period is also called The Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Why?
  10. In this period new inventions were born. Give examples.
  11. What were the Coffee Houses?
  12. What were the consequences of the Industrial Revolution?





#Victorian Age

 Topic: The Victorian Age 

Method: flipped, cooperative, frontal
Tools: Edpuzzle, textbook, presentations tool, BYOD
Level: B2
Assessment/Evaluation: oral test
Self-assessment (cooperative work):

Victorian Life Map

1st lesson

HOMEWORK

Click on the following link, watch the video, and do the activities (while watching take note in your exercise book):
https://edpuzzle.com/media/5d807b5af26aa840a5127759
[contribution of the colleague T. Saponar]

2nd lesson

HOMEWORK

Click on the following link, watch the video, and do the activities (while watching take note in your exercise book):
https://edpuzzle.com/media/5d72bbf34314f4408faccc28
[contribution of the colleague T. Saponar]

Here's the transcription of the question to answer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZSGmM8jozzI5cfJ1W5SGKW9gg8mOjuKV/view?usp=sharing 
To answer question n.13 you can access the following link:

Research material

DIGITAL LESSON

Teacher's presentation 

Sunday, September 27, 2020

#COFFEE HOUSES

CRITICAL THINKING / ONLINE RESEARCH

What are Coffee Houses?

Why were they so important in the 18th century?

Visit this website and try to answer the given questions

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/English-Coffeehouses-Penny-Universities/?fbclid=IwAR2obXBMevRFbJOPVsHUz8OPom7EdSehrn3B61KGzg9zbdgTlbCz2BIFuT8


Project

Have a look at this webpage:

https://conversational-leadership.net/coffee-houses/

Watch the video of Steven Johnson (2.27 mins) and the TedED video on the page (15 mins) and take notes of the most important information. When you have clear ideas pretend to open your own Coffee House:

  1. decide WHERE (in which city) and explain why
  2. decide your house style (concerning the structure of the place)
  3. decide WHAT would be the type of information exchange could be there (give examples)
  4. decide what kind of people could frequent it
  5. present it with a simple presentation (use the app you prefer: ppt, adobe, canvas, google presentation...)

Here's the map we did in class:


WHERE to upload your final project:


Saturday, September 26, 2020

Grammar REVIEW

Hi students,


please go to the right bar on the homepage, under SKILLS PRACTICE, and click on GRAMMAR VIDEO LESSON. Find on the page and watch these 3 videos (or click on the title below):

Take your own time. Take notes of the examples during the video and add them to your STUDY SECTION handbook.

PRACTICE 

Click on the link below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwMiV54o8qo5je2tPYOm3Y1NyzAwq82-/view?usp=sharing

Have a look at the following list of GRAMMAR core topics (in brackets the page of the Oxford Grammar) :

  1. Past simple (irregular verbs table p.500) (p.40-47 testo Oxford))
  2. Past simple vs past continuous (pp. 50-52)
  3. Modals (pp. 118-130)
  4. Present perfect (pp. 58-66)
  5. The passive (pp. 104-106) e post sul blog (grammar review) 
  6. The question tags (p.156) e post sul blog (grammar review)
See next post for n.5 and 6
          Review all these linguistic functions and take note if there are any which are not clear for you.

          Thursday, September 24, 2020

          GRAMMAR - English tenses

          Dear students,

          we are going to do this task for all our grammar lessons.
          When the teacher will tell you you must follow this lesson plan:

          LED-IN (homework)

          Watch this presentation:

          https://prezi.com/4zuifzz-gtq-/english-tenses/

          and find the map of the tense you are studying now at school. This is a complete verb tenses presentation, so you don't need to know everything, don't worry!

          Make your personal map on the study-section of your handbook, add your personal examples.

          Go on the right bar of the homepage, under the SKILLS PRACTICE menu, and click on 'Grammar video lessons' and find the same tense video.

          WARM-UP (in class)

          Brainstorming about the grammar topic (whole class)
          Take your grammar book for class cooperative activities.
          Then feedback to the teacher.

          EXTENTION
          Further exercises (homework)

          Wednesday, September 23, 2020

          ISCRIZIONE CLASSE VIRTUALE ZANICHELLI

          WHERE
          sul sito della zanichelli  https://my.zanichelli.it/
          a cui TUTTI dovreste essere già iscritti in quanto avete il testo di letteratura in adozione e, se non lo foste, ISCRIVETEVI possibilmente entro il 01/10/2020.

          HOW
          Guardate questo video tutorial che vi spiega nel dettaglio come accedere alla classe virtuale e l'esercizio che vi ho assegnato in essa.



          WHAT
          Una volta fatto l'accesso alla vostra classe vistuale, vi verrà inviata una mail con il link all'esercizio assegnato:
          - 1 sola possibilità per inserire 1 risposta
          - tempo massimo per lo svolgimento 
          - argomenti (gli stessi della verifica)
          Una volta completato il 'test', potrete visualizzarlo accedendo alla classe virtuale (gestisci le tue classi) e cliccando sulla classe a cui siete inseriti, poi su QUADERNO.


          WHY 
          Utilizzeremo le 2classi virtuali" per esercitazioni pre verifica (Didattica Digitale Integrata DDI)



          CODICI DI ACCESSO ALLA CLASSE VISTUALE

          Fate MOLTA attenzione di inserire il codice corrispondente alla vostra CLASSE.
          Clicca qui: