Donatella Bottero

Viola Invernizzi

Veronica Polichett

Nadia Sanità

L’argomento
 Shades and Shapes è rivolto agli studenti del 2° Biennio e del 5° anno del Liceo Artistico.
 I contenuti sono stati ordinati secondo criteri di graduale complessità concettuale e linguistica e vengono esplorati utilizzando le quattro abilità in modo omogeneo ed integrato.
 I brani offrono un assortimento di stili, registri e livelli di difficoltà e sono tratti da fonti diverse: giornali, riviste e manuali specialistici, materiale promozionale e siti Internet.
 
 La struttura
 Shades and Shapes è diviso in sei Moduli, ognuno dei quali è ripartito in due sezioni:
 
 1 – Content Section – Divisa in Unità, contiene testi e attività che riguardano i contenuti specifici della specializzazione già affrontati in L1.
 Ogni Unità è suddivisa in brevi Capitoli per favorire non solo uno studio più parcellizzato, ma anche la scelta antologica da parte dell’insegnante.
 I testi vengono affrontati in modo graduale, attraverso esercizi di Before Reading, While Reading, esplorazione del lessico specialistico, comprensione scritta e/o orale, globale e specifica. Brevi schede di approfondimento, denominate Moving Deeper, permettono di ampliare le conoscenze sull’argomento.
 Un ricco apparato iconografico correda i brani di lettura, per ognuno dei quali è previsto un esauriente glossario.
 
 2 – Revision and Practice – Si occupa di contenuti inerenti alla disciplina ponendo particolare attenzione all’arricchimento lessicale, strutturale e allo sviluppo delle quattro abilità linguistiche. Presenta le seguenti ripartizioni:
 • Vocabulary. Comprende specifiche attività per il conseguimento del lessico specialistico più importante del Modulo.
 Costituisce anche uno strumento che può essere utilizzato come rinforzo e ripasso degli argomenti del Modulo.
 • Grammar. Propone il ripasso e il rinforzo delle strutture morfosintattiche più ricorrenti nel linguaggio settoriale.
 • Communication. Offre testi e attività di consolidamento dei contenuti appresi per sviluppare le quattro abilità linguistiche: Reading – Listening – Speaking – Writing.
 • CLIL. Alla fine di ogni Modulo è presente un CLIL CORNER che si collega alle tematiche presentate in alcune delle discipline curriculari (Letteratura, Storia, Filosofia, Chimica, Fisica, Matematica), ognuna delle quali viene collegata con uno o più argomenti del Modulo.

MODULE 1 - HISTORY OF ART

Unit 0 - Tools and rules

Unit 1 - The Ancient World

Unit 2 - Medieval Art

Unit 3 - Renaissance and Baroque

Unit 4 - From Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism

Unit 5 - The Twentieth Century Art

VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR (Main verb tenses)

COMMUNICATION

CLIL

MODULE 2 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Unit 1 - Landscape and the Environment

Unit 2 - Architecture of the 19th Century

Unit 3 - The Masters of Modern Architecture

Unit 4 - Contemporary Architecture

GRAMMAR (Connectors))

MODULE 3 - DESIGN

Unit 1 - Design is History

Unit 2 - Design is Technology

Unit 3 - Design is Life

Unit 4 - Design is Fashion

GRAMMAR (Prefixes and Suffixes))

MODULE 4 - GRAPHIC ARTS

Unit 1 - A New Style for a New Culture

Unit 2 - Choosing and Using Type

Unit 3 - Graphic Design Practice

GRAMMAR (Articles – Indefinite adjectives and Pronouns – Comparatives and Superlatives)

MODULE 5 - AUDIOVISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA

Unit 1 - The History Behind the Pictures

Unit 2 - The Seventh Art

GRAMMAR (Compounds)

MODULE 6 - SCENOGRAPHY

Unit 1 - Looking at the Stage Throughout the Centuries

Unit 2 - Theatre, Performance and Technology

GRAMMAR (The Passive Voice)

U N I T 1 THE HISTORY BEHIND THE PICTURES In this Unit you will explore significant events in the history of photography and will learn some basic terms relating to photography, as well as the combination of photography and journalism through gripping war pictures. They will show you the power of a camera to tell a story or to show and face social ills. A.  YOU PUSH THE BUTTON AND WE DO ALL THE REST  The era of mass-market photography was launched by this slogan introducing the first Kodak camera in 1889, but in the beginning when this important technological tool was discovered, things were slightly more difficult. The ability to produce  drawing with light    which is the literal meaning of the word  photography    was discovered simultaneously in the 1830s by a Frenchman, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, and an Englishman, William Henry Fox Talbot. However, Daguerre s compatriot Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had also succeeded in fixing images with a camera obscura a good decade earlier. The  daguerreotype  process shown here represents a pioneering way of recording images. Over the next few decades, additional inventors made adjustments to this technology. Nowadays, while traditional analogue photography1 is losing its influence in its traditional territories, such as photojournalism or amateur photography and snapshots, photography, even at its ripe old age, is more relevant than ever before. Television, videos and the Internet at best produce a visual  surge , while the conventional photographic picture is alone in having the power to produce something similar to a memory. The media scientist Norbert Bolz has spoken of the  large, quiet image  that grants something like a secure foothold in the current torrent of data. 1   A daguerreotype. analogue photography: photograph taken with a camera that uses film to take pictures. GLOSSARY amateur: person who does something for pleasure, not as a job decade: a period of ten years drawing: the act of making a picture with a pencil or pen, or a 224 picture made in this way foothold: strong starting position to grant: (here) to give pioneering: experimental ripe: fully developed snapshot: a photo taken with an exposure time lower than 1/20 of a second slightly: a little surge: sudden and great increase tool: a piece of equipment 

 Brainstorm your ideas as a class. a. Do you like taking pictures? b. In your opinion, can photographic images be called art? c. Comment upon the following quotation by Horst Wackerbarth:  Photography is the only genre that can achieve a popular effect on the immediate, visible level, and an elitist one after its initial impact on a deeper, more subtle level.  PET 1 A Describe the photo on the right. PET Decide if the following sentences are true or false. T F a. Photography was invented in Great Britain. b. Nowadays traditional analogue photography is losing its influence. c. Photojournalism belongs to traditional analogue photography. d. The first Kodak camera was created in 1889. e. Photography is a very new art. 1 B Now correct the false sentences. 2 Make up sentences with the following words: analogue, camera, tool, snapshot Example:  Daguerre used a camera obscura to freeze the image. 3 A rayograph,  The kiss  (Man Ray, 1922). Listen to this passage about Man Ray and fill in the blanks. A photogram is a picture made on photographic paper without the aid of a (1) ............................ . You can make one yourself by placing objects directly on light-sensitive (2) ................................ , which is then exposed to light and (3) ...................................... . Man Ray called the results of his efforts  Rayographs    a play on his name, but also a twist on the Greek roots of the word  photograph  meaning  writing with (4) ................................. .  Tristan Tzara   one of the founders and central figures of the Dada movement   proclaimed them  pure Dada creations . However, the practice had existed of course since the earliest days of (5) ................................. , but in Man Ray s hands the photogram was not a mechanical copy. 225 

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