Hamlet : To be or not to be

TO  Hamlet (Act III, scene I). To be or not to be To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; for in that sleep of death … Continua a leggere Hamlet : To be or not to be

ANALYSYS OF A TEXTUAL TYPOLOGY : NEWSPAPER REPORTS

Headline : Diplomatic sherpas feel the strain in surfeit of summits  Newspaper headlines are usually written by a special headlines subeditor who makes them effective choosing catchy words, short sentence structures, metaphoric words and other rhetorical devices. These latter often make headlines obscure and difficult to understand but also intriguing, reflecting at the same time our cultural expectations. That’s the reason why headlines can be considered as a self-genre presenting some typical features. For example, a TOP DOWN approach to the above mentioned headline will be focused on its non-linguistic features as the general layout, the print size and the … Continua a leggere ANALYSYS OF A TEXTUAL TYPOLOGY : NEWSPAPER REPORTS

YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (4)…..

The student will be the actor of his own learning process and not simply a passive learner. To provide a constant feedback, which may help to direct the learning process, it’s proposed an informai assessement by the teacher to be done during the lesson, side by side with learning, in relation to what goes on in the c1assroom. Assessment will be carried out measuring the performances of students in the normal c1assroom environment, looking at how they respond to the subaims of activities, their abilities in communication, expression, cooperation and negotiation, their non-verbal responses and the progress they make.  Assessing … Continua a leggere YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (4)…..

YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (3)…..

More easily they will be able to make comparisons between the education system in Victorian era and in contemporary age. Taking into account that kinesthetic students learn best when they are engaged in activities involving their body (in other words when acting, touching things and moving around), I planned a final dramatization of the text through a role-taking activity. It will probably be a useful way to keep this particular kind of students motivated and to make students in general have fun while learning. Besides this activity proves effective both for enhancing the learners’ grammatical competence and for letting some … Continua a leggere YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (3)…..

YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (2)…..

We are aware that students learn differently and that, as teachers, we have to cope with multiple intelligences (in other words with Verbal- Linguistic students, with Visual and Auditory students and with Kinesthetic students). That’s why in order to motivate all students and to prepare them to understand the mental attitude of the Victorians and the way they considered education  I decided to vary the activities in class and to use a variety of channels through which presenting the lesson contents, that is to say an integrated combination of words, pictures and music from the very Engagement phase. So the … Continua a leggere YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (2)…..

LESSON PLAN : YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (1)……

  The present Lesson Plan revolves around literature. The chosen literary topic is Young People and Education related to an excerpt from Dickens’s novel Hard Times. The lesson is included in a teaching unit belonging to the prose section of a module titled Education throughout the ages in Poetry, Prose and Drama. This module, which lasts l0 hours, is meant to show how great writers dealt with this theme at different times and in different literary genres in greatly different contexts. The teaching unit is carried out in the first term of the school year. My planned lesson lasts 2 … Continua a leggere LESSON PLAN : YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION (1)……

Interculturalità a Scuola

Come può la didattica rendere possibile l’interazione tra individui che non hanno le stesse coordinate culturali?   Il Consiglio d’Europa ritiene importante incoraggiare i multilinguismi ma solo al fine di sviluppare il plurilinguismo, ossia fare in modo che vi sia interazione e scambio tra le varie lingue. In tal modo, queste ultime formeranno insieme un unico bagaglio che dovrà interagire nelle conoscenze dei vari attanti. Alcuni paesi hanno deciso di lasciare ai vari popoli la propria cultura. In Francia e Germania si è visto che il dramma non è quello dei padri ma quello dei figli che hanno comportamenti diversi … Continua a leggere Interculturalità a Scuola

Tra Multiculturalità ed Educazione Interculturale – Il nuovo volto della scuola italiana

Il filosofo Emmanuel Lévinas scrive “il nostro rapporto col mondo, prima ancora di essere un rapporto con le cose, è un rapporto con l’altro. È un rapporto prioritario che la tradizione metafisica occidentale ha occultato, cercando di assorbire e identificare l’altro a sé, spogliandolo della sua alterità”. Per diversi studiosi, la riflessione di Lévinas sull’ Altro costituisce uno dei fondamenti teorici del multiculturalismo contemporaneo, suggerisce, cioè,una visione nuova e diversa dei rapporti fra gli individui e fra le culture: rapporti fra diversi, che come tali vanno riconosciuti e valorizzati. Solo attraverso questo riconoscimento è possibile attivare una comunicazione autentica fra … Continua a leggere Tra Multiculturalità ed Educazione Interculturale – Il nuovo volto della scuola italiana

HOW TO PLAN A MOTIVATING TEACHING UNIT AND A WELL CONSTRUCTED LESSON PLAN

          Rationale The main reason for choosing to deal with the theme of Love  and Marriage is that Love is highly motivating for adolescents and we all know that motivation is the key to knowledge. As a matter of fact, love plays an important role in our students’ life. As teenagers they want to grow up, going outside their family and look for new relationships. This is the moment when friends become their new family and the opposite sex is the new world to explore and win. They live their first love affairs, discovering how difficult … Continua a leggere HOW TO PLAN A MOTIVATING TEACHING UNIT AND A WELL CONSTRUCTED LESSON PLAN