Emanuela Simoncini

L’argomento.
 Lives è un testo di civiltà che intende stimolare la curiosità verso culture, popolazioni, abitudini e stili diversi dalla nostra per favorire la reciproca comprensione. I brani fanno riferimento ai principali paesi parlanti la lingua inglese: Gran Bretagna, Irlanda, Stati Uniti, Australia e Sud Africa.
 
 Ciascuna Unità presenta testi originali, informativi ed accattivanti, suddivisi per argomenti:
 
 <ul><li>Cities &amp; Landmarks
</li><li>Culture, Art &amp; Literature
</li><li>Customs &amp; Traditions
</li><li>Environment &amp; Technology
</li><li>Geography
</li><li>History
</li><li>Music &amp; Sport
</li><li>Geography
</li><li>People, TV &amp; Cinema
</li></ul>Lives è suddiviso in tre sezioni corrispondenti ai livelli linguistici delle tre classi della secondaria di primo grado:
 A1, A1+, A2.
 
 Ogni Unità prevede:
 
 <ul><li>un’attività di warm-up che introduce il tema del brano
</li><li>un ampio glossario, per offrire una lettura agevole e scorrevole
</li><li>diversi esercizi di comprensione, per consolidare l’apprendimento e stimolare l’analisi
</li><li>una rubrica dedicata all’Agenda 2030 e alle Competenze del XXI secolo
</li><li>un’attività di Do-it-yourself: compiti di realtà da svolgere in coppia o in gruppo
</li></ul>Ogni sezione si conclude con delle mappe riepilogative per singolo brano, utile supporto allo studio e all’analisi.
 
 La sezione dedicata alla classe terza include altri spunti per l’Esame di Stato, suggerendo, per ciascun brano, possibili collegamenti interdisciplinari. Il testo si chiude con delle mappe geopolitiche e un piccolo gioco: “Guess the Country!”.

Index

LEVEL A1

Cities & Landmarks

Culture, Art & Literature

Customs & Traditions

Environment & Technology

Geography

History

Music & Sport

People, TV & Cinema

LEVEL A1+

LEVEL A2

EXAM

GEOPOLITICAL MAPS

GUESS THE COUNTRY!

CULTURE, ART & LITERATURE The Importance of Being Earnest WARM-UP Traduci in inglese le seguenti parole. matrimonio   verità   innamorarsi   approvare   relazione   sposare   sentimento   proposta   marito   moglie   responsabilità   identità VOCABULARY without telling Jack/Ernest, he goes to his country house to meet the girl. There, he tells everybody he is Ernest, Jack s evil brother, and falls in love with Cecily, who is very happy to marry someone whose name is Ernest, just like Gwendolen. Soon after, Jack/Ernest returns to his country house, and Gwendolen follows him. There, they meet Algernon/Ernest and Cecily. After some misunderstandings , Cecily and Gwendolen become friends and understand that their future husbands have lied about their real identity. At the end of the play, Miss Prism, Cecily s private tutor, reveals the truth: Jack is Algernon s brother, who, by mistake, she  lost  while she was looking after him by herself. Not only that, his real name is also Ernest! Finally, Algernon and Jack have the blessing of Gwendolen s mother (their aunt) to marry the two girls. Quotations Interior, St James's Theatre (built 1835), London. Watercolour by John Gregory Crace 37 The Importance of Being Earnest is a play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, first performed on 14th February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London and published in 1898. It is a satirical comedy based on paradoxes in which the protagonists have a double life to escape the oppressive social obligations of the rigid Victorian upper-class society. Plot The comedy is based on a pun :  earnest  is an adjective meaning  honest and serious , but it is pronounced as Ernest, a male name. The protagonists of the play are Jack and his friend Algernon. They both have a double identity. Jack, who lives in the countryside, changes his name to Ernest when he goes to London so that he can behave the way he wants without being identified. In the country, in fact, he has a girl under his responsibility, Cecily, who he must be an example for and who believes he is Ernest s good brother. In London, Jack/Ernest falls in love with Gwendolen (Algernon s cousin), but her mother does not approve of their marriage because Jack/Ernest is an orphan. Gwendolen, however, wants to marry him because the name she knows, Ernest, inspires her with positive feelings. Algernon knows Jack as Ernest, but one day he finds out the truth. He is curious to meet Cecily, so, 78 The play ridicules Victorian hypocrisy. Here s a list of quotes from the play.   Algernon:  All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.    Gwendolen:  I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.    Gwendolen:  In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.    Algernon:  I really don t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted.  GLOSSARY beyond: oltre blessing: benedizione detail: dettaglio grave: serio hierarchical: gerarchico misunderstanding: incomprensione pun: gioco di parole quotation/quote: citazione reversal: rovesciamento 

A2 1 READING VOCABULARY Completa il testo con le parole mancanti per ricostruire la trama. Jack is a young man who lives in the 1.           where he is responsible for a girl whose name is 2.          . When he goes to 3.          , he changes his name into 4.          . There, he falls in love with 5.          , who wants to marry him because of his name, but Gwendolen s mother doesn t approve because he is an orphan. Algernon, Gwendolen s 6.           and Jack s friend, decides to go to Jack s country house to meet 7.           and he also 2 READING WRITING changes his name into 8.          , telling everybody that he is Jack s 9.          . When Jack/Ernest and Gwendolen arrive at the country house, they meet Algernon/Ernest and Cecily. After some misunderstandings, the two girls become 10.           and find out that their future 11.           lied to them about their real identity. At the end, Miss 12.           reveals the truth and the two young men can marry Cecily and Gwendolen. Scrivi le domande per le seguenti risposte. 1. It s a paradoxical comedy in three acts written by Oscar Wilde. 2. To escape the oppressive social obligations of the rigid Victorian upper-class society. 3. Earnest means  honest and serious , but, with the same pronunciation, it s also a male name. 4. He ridicules Victorian hypocrisy. 3 Traduci le citazioni del testo, scegli quella che ti sembra più divertente e spiega alla classe le motivazioni della tua scelta. WRITING SPEAKING CREATIVITY DO-IT-YOURSELF Leggete il brano, rispondete alle domande, poi 4 scrivete un breve testo su un compagno, un insegnante, un personaggio famoso o un evento usando una delle tecniche proposte. 5 WRITING PAIR WORK What is Satire? Satire is a literary genre characterised by strong irony. Satire can be found in famous literary works, TV shows, comics and even in Internet memes. Satire has four main elements:   Exaggeration: representing something beyond normal limits so that it becomes ridiculous;   Incongruity: presenting things that are out of place or absurd in relation to the context, for example, including details that do not make sense with the rest of the story;   Parody: imitating the style of some person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the original;   Reversal: presenting the opposite of the normal order. For example, the order of events   such as serving dinner before breakfast   or hierarchical order   for example when a young child makes all the decisions for a family. Adapted from: www.readwritethink.org/sites/ default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson936/ SatiricalTechniques 1. What is satire? 2. How does incongruity work? 3. What is the purpose of parody? 4. What technique represents things in an order which is the opposite of the normal one? WRITING PAIR WORK La scena più famosa dell opera è quella in cui la madre di Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell, intervista Jack per capire se sia un buon candidato per sposare la figlia. Leggetela, adattatela e interpretate la scena a coppie. 

Testo che esplora le culture dei paesi anglofoni con brani su città, arte, tradizioni, storia, ambiente e altro.

Lives - A collage of the culture of English-Speaking Countr

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