https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Christmas

TODAY'S CONVERSATION LESSON - 1^C LINGUISTICO

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2016/01/at-home-1c-linguistico.html

TODAY'S CONVERSATION LESSON - 2^C LINGUISTICO

“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

Italo Calvino, “Invisible Cities”

A DAY TRIP TO CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO

Last month I went to Civita di Bagnoregio with my parents and my cousin. It is one of  the most beautiful medieval towns in Italy and a very popular tourist destination. In fact, every year more than 700 000 people go there  from all over the world to admire this breathtaking town.

It is famous for its nickname: “the Dying Town”.  

It is located on the top of  a tuff hill  which is constantly eroded, consequently the town always risks disappearing. Today only eleven people live there.      

It is in central Italy, in the province of Viterbo;  it is about 120 km from Rome and by train or car it only takes you about  two hours to get there.  You can visit this town on a day trip because you will need about three hours for sightseeing. I recommend bringing suitable footwear because the only way to visit Civita di Bagnoregio  is on foot. As soon as you arrive, you will find yourself  in a parking area where you have to pay a €5 ticket. To reach the centre of the town you have to cross a 300 metre long bridge which connects the old town with the new one. While walking across the bridge, you can enjoy the  spectacular landscape of  "Valle dei Calanchi".                

The historic centre is an attraction in itself, but there are other places of interest such as Colesanti, Bocca and Alemanni Palaces, built during the Renaissance. In Alemanni Palace  you can visit the Geological and Landslides Museum. Another important building is the Church of San Donato  which overlooks the main square and  where a holy wooden crucifix is kept.  

  

Civita di Bagnoregio has some small shops of handcrafted products and souvenirs. If you are hungry, there is the possibility to find small restaurants, taverns and bars  where you can try some typical dishes, for example “fettuccine with chicken entrails sauce” or “polenta with truffle”  ... I am sure you will enjoy them! 

You can also download an app to get all the information you need  about the best places to eat and drink as well as the tours to choose.  I loved this atmospheric  town very much because it seems like a magical place where time has stopped in medieval times.

Ivonne Ciocchetti,  2^C  Linguistico

PAST SIMPLE - 1^C LINGUISTICO

The past tense of the verb To Be has two forms: WAS and WERE.

https://www.grammar.cl/Past/To_Be.htm

THANKSGIVING DAY

https://holidappy.com/holidays/10-Fun-Facts-About-Thanksgiving

 

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_02_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/adverbs-frequency/

ACROSTICS - 3^C LINGUISTICO

 

The term acrostic is derived from  the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis. Generally, an acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line is spelled vertically and the vertical word is the subject of the poem. Each line describes the subject word.

https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/do-you-know-what-an-acrostic-poem-is

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/other/acrostic/

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 

Halloween is thought to date back more than 2,000 years to Samhain, a Celtic New Year's Day that fell on 1 November.  Demons, fairies, and spirits of the dead were thought to walk the Earth the night before when the separation was thin between the worlds of the living and the dead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/15169373

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Reading_comprehension/Halloween_sa1296307mq

PRESENT SIMPLE - 1^C LINGUISTICO

 

LA LITERATURA

https://recursosdidacticos.org/que-es-la-literatura-para-tercero-de-secundaria/

https://horadelrecreo.com/c-literatura/

https://wayraeduca.com/que-es-la-literatura/

PRESENT SIMPLE - 1^C LINGUISTICO

 

THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY TREE

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-23272491

RELATIVE CLAUSES

A relative clause is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can’t stand alone as a sentence.  A relative clause always begins with a “relative pronoun,” which substitutes for a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun when sentences are combined. 

A 700 ANNI DALLA MORTE DI DANTE ALIGHIERI

 

Pif racconta la figura del Sommo Poeta, attraverso una indagine coinvolgente, incredibilmente attuale e anche un po' irriverente.

https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/09/Dante-Confidential-f736cec6-e5ea-4feb-af28-66e81d4c3c7a.html

L'IMPRESSIONISMO

 

http://www.storiartestoria.altervista.org/media/11Impressionismo.pdf

https://www.theartpostblog.com/impressionismo/

https://www.sutori.com/story/l-impressionismo--tzVK9HbVXXYiFuo9XhgHUPYD

https://www.roger-podcast.com/album/agenda2030/

https://asvis.it/l-agenda-2030-dell-onu-per-lo-sviluppo-sostenibile/

SEPTEMBER

 

APPUNTI DI ITALIANO E DI STORIA ONLINE

https://italianostoriablogsite.wordpress.com/

IN MEMORIA

In memoria nelle prime edizioni della raccolta Il porto sepolto appare isolata, all'inizio, come se si trattasse di una dedica. Viene poi integrata ne L'allegria, il cui tema centrale è rappresentato dalla guerra. Ed è proprio nella poesia di Giuseppe Ungaretti che la Prima Guerra Mondiale trova la sua interpretazione più memorabile. Leggi qui.

GLI IMPRESSIONISTI

https://dueminutidiarte.com/2015/09/26/impressionismo-artisti-opere-riassunto-arte/

https://www.arteworld.it/impressionismo/

http://www.storiartestoria.altervista.org/media/11Impressionismo.pdf

L'ASSIUOLO

L’assiuolo è una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli, inserita  nella sezione In campagna della quarta edizione di Myricae (1897).

Il poeta descrive un paesaggio notturno nel quale si distingue il canto lamentoso di un assiuolo, un uccello rapace simile alla civetta. Il canto angoscioso dell’animale diventa l’occasione per una riflessione sulla vita e sulla morte dell’uomo.

https://library.weschool.com/lezione/assiuolo-giovanni-pascoli-myricae-parafrasi-3159.html

 

https://leereslomejor.com/c-literatura/historia-de-una-gaviota-y-del-gato/#Historia_de_una_gaviota_y_del_gato

MATURITÀ 2021

SOCIAL MEDIA – A WORLD OF APPEARANCE

The Internet is definitely the most important social revolution of recent times and the appearance of social networks has changed our lives, the way we deal with others, our way of thinking and our behaviours.

An important issue, regarding social media, is the contrast between appearance and reality and the consequences that follow.

In social media like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok  it is possible to show every moment of our daily life: what we usually eat, the book we are reading, what we are studying, if we are hanging out with our friends or dating with somebody.

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE

 https://www.e-grammar.org/future-simple-continuous/test2-exercise2/

SYRIA, 10 YEARS OF WAR

In 2021, the terrible war in Syria has turned 10 years old, and seems to have no end.

Main events of the war

Ten years have passed since peaceful protests broke out against the government of President Bashar Assad in March 2011 because of the so-called “Arab Spring”, it triggered a popular uprising which quickly turned into a real civil war. The hardest fighting of the war has taken place in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria. The United States had a leading role in the management of the war,  during the years of Obama’s presidency, but especially during Trump’s presidency. In fact, the United States did not intervene in the war until the first use of chemical weapons in the conflict happened in August 2013. The first American air attack occurred in September 2014; an attack on the Syrian territories controlled by the Islamic State, which had proclaimed its "caliphate" in Syrian and Iraqi territories. Subsequently, Assad’s Syrian army suffered its first defeats against the Islamic State, for this reason Russia and then Turkey intervened in support of Assad. The conflict continued and in 2017, for the first time, the United States launched a barrage of missiles as a direct attack on the Syrian government. In 2018, after Assad had recaptured all the suburbs of the city of Damascus, Great Britain, the United States and France launched military attacks on Syria to punish Assad who was accused of using chemical weapons again and killing many civilians. Then the United States decided to establish new sanctions against the countries which supported Syrian military operations. Despite a decade of fighting and a destroyed country, Assad remains firmly in power. 

Syria today is suffering a serious economic and humanitarian crisis, and is divided into three parts. An al-Qaeda group dominates the northwestern province of Idlib, while Turkish-backed rebels control some stretches along the Turkish border. The Syrian Kurdish forces supported by the United States control about a quarter of the country in the northeast. Assad controls the rest of the country.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND LITTLE WOMEN IN COMPARISON

The reign of Queen Victoria gave the name to the period of time between 1937 and 1901: the Victorian Age. During this complex era, characterized by great hypocrisy and social imbalances, there was a marked division between male and female skills. 

The concept of family was very similar to the Roman idea of  “pater familias” or  "father of the family"  who had absolute rule over his household; in fact  his wife and his children  had to submit to his will and  his wife’s tasks included only the domestic sphere. 

Women’s life was so difficult, since they were considered as objects and their role was limited to have children, do household chores and obey their husbands. They were requested to be pure, pious and chaste; for this reason, they were associated with the ideal of “the angel of the hearth”, thanks to Coventry Patmore’s literary work The Angel in the House (1854).

Women did not have any right: they could study only if it was useful for the maintenance of the house and any one of them who wished to study or attend university was mocked; they also could not vote and paternal rights were assigned to men, as well as every trace of money.

During a conference, even the scholar John Ruskin presented his idea of  men as “defenders and creators” and women as “those who clean the house”.

Yet the condition of women started being in the spotlight: as they were tired of it, they started overthrowing some of the rules imposed on them by criticizing contemporary society in their literary works in which they expressed their rebellion, hidden behind the feminine ideal.

As I have just affirmed, women who transgressed the Victorian “code of conduct” were not accepted; but despite the numerous vetoes imposed by society, some of them - like the Brontë sisters and Elizabeth Gaskell - decided to undertake the world of literature anyway, by hiding their identities using male pseudonyms or by remaining anonymous.

Among them, there was Emily Brönte and Louisa May Alcott. 

MEDIEVAL TIMES QUIZZES

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/58c7eaa17e880ff566b5b5de/medieval-times

LOOK LIKE - BE LIKE - LIKE

MY PASSION FOR TRAVEL

Since I was a child I have always been fascinated by the idea of discovering new places outside my own country. I was curious to know that there was such a vast world outside the door of my house, and I wanted to travel it as soon as possible. Studying English at school aroused  my passion for this language together with  my interest in all the countries where it is spoken, but in particular Great Britain. Lots of my relatives told me about their adventures all over the world, they showed me photos, videos and they brought me gadgets and I remember being really impressed with what they showed me about London. I don’t know why, probably because I saw that city very different from my village, it seemed another world to me and at that time I was just a 10-year-old girl.

So I started to ask my parents to go to visit London, I dreamed of getting on that strange giant wheel known as the London Eye which seemed to me just a wonderful carousel, I couldn’t wait to see the beautiful palace of the Queen and I even wanted to put on her crown, just to feel like a princess!

Years passed, but my desire of visiting the capital of Great Britain  remained essentially unchanged as I grew up. I was also learning the traditions and customs of the country, and then  those attractions, which as a child seemed so strange to me, began to take their real form, and they continued to captivate me very much … until Christmas 2017!

GIORNATA MONDIALE DEL LIBRO 2021

Leggere per conoscere e per conoscersi.

Leggere per capire.

Leggere per perdersi completamente.

Leggere per rifugiarsi altrove.

Leggere per vivere tante altre vite.

Leggere per stupirsi.

Leggere per viaggiare.

Leggere per emozionarsi.

Leggere per salvarsi.

Leggere per trovare delle risposte.

Leggere per guardarsi dentro.

Leggere per incontrare nuovi personaggi.

Leggere per innamorarsi.

Leggere per imparare.

Leggere per aprire la mente.

Leggere per riconoscersi.

Leggere per ricordare.

Leggere perché è impossibile farne a meno.

Laura Messina

GOING ON A LANGUAGE TRIP

Speaking a foreign language is always an advantage in our modern society and comes with countless benefits. A very effective and fun way to learn languages are language trips. Read here.

IDENTIFYING EMOTIONS

 https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/feelings-emotions-exercises.html

CLIL - ART HISTORY IN ENGLISH

https://mymodernmet.com/category/art-history/

http://www.worldsbestpaintings.net/home

WORDS WITH SILENT LETTERS

LES LETTRES MUETTES EN FRANÇAIS

https://www.masteryourfrench.com/fr/prononciation/lettres-muettes-en-francais/