ENGLISH 2021/2022

English vocabulary
It’s a wonderful day
In my believe
In my opinion
Personally, I think/believe
In my view,
according to me
To be honest
To tell the truth
First of all
Starting with
For one thing
For a start
In the first place
Secondly/thirdly
Finally
In addition / in addition to this
Besides/ beside this
Moreover
Furthermore
As well as/as well as this
However= tuttavia/comunque
Anyway
Nevertheless= ciononostante
Nonetheless=
In contrast
In contrary
On one hand/on the other hand
Vocabolary
Elaborate
Process
Imagination
What do they do=che lavoro fanno
Tube
Subway
Rush hour=Ora di punta
Tunnel (pronuncia tannel)
Grumpy=scontroso
Hunched =gobbo
Features=tratti
Facial features
Nephew nipote (zio)
Niece nipotina (zia)
Grandson nipote (nonno)
Granddaughter nipotina (nonna)
La filosofia nasce in Grecia dal VI/V secolo a.c.
Adjectives
Adverbs
Regular verbs play,
Irregular verbs= go, cut,sit
Phrasal verbs= wake up,sit down,
Prepositions
Expressions
False friends grammar=parents, attend
Non c’è l’ho=I can’t think at an example at the moment
I don’t get it= non capisco
Parenti= relatives
Sensibile=sentitivo
Imaginary=immaginario
Oppisite=di fronte
Beside = di fianco
Take piace accadono/aver luogo
Overhear=origliare
Hear/heard/heard
According to=secondo qualcuno di
Early raiser=mattutino
Hang out= uscire
Hang/hung/hung
For me= per te nelle possibilità proprie ( fisico
In my opinion=mentale
Account=commercialista
Pot= pentola
Melt = sciogliere fare
Wax=cere
Commitments=impegni
1. i would rather not go to london because.........
2. I would prefer not to go to london because..........
Aim=obbiettivo
Attempt=tentare
gap=buco/hole=buco
Suitable=adatta
At your fingertips=sulla punta delle tue dita
Good at=buono in/a
Useless at=inutile a/non buono a
That make two of us=siamo in due
Pennyless=senza soldi
Path sentiero
Fall/fell/fallen
Fill=riempire
Bright=brillante/sveglio
Take off=decollare
Scroll up/down=strisciare
Keen=portato,appassionato
Recipes=ricette
Do away with=farne a meno
Looking forward =simile a i can’t wait
Worried=preoccupato/concerned about
Don’t bother =lascia stare (andiamo avanti non ci pensare)
Good at
Afraid of
Interested in
Look forward to
Worried about
Fond=appassionato simile a keen
Engineer=ingegnere
Awful=terribile
Spongie
Despite=malgrado
Although=anche se
Strict = severo
Due=consegnare
Run out of=finire (false friend)
Press=stampa
All over the press=tutta la stampa
Run out of steam=non avere più energia
Cheers=tifare
Under dog=sfavorito
Favorite=favorito
Groot=tifare
Stroke=ictus
High blood pression=pressione alta del sangue
Sharp=afillato
To sharpen=affilare
To worsen=peggiorare
On your own=
To Last=durare
Long last=lunga durata
It last for a long period of time
Mindset=mentalità
Grouth=crescita
Grouth mindset=crescita mentale
Achieve=ottenere
To be awere=essere consapevoli
Awerness=consapevolezza
Hurdle=ostacolo
Dip=
To coax=convincere
Apricot=albicocca
Shining=splendendo/splende
Step out=passare fuori
Last=dura
Present perfect
Already
Just
Ever
Never
Yet
Still
Past simple
Ago
In =1999,march,the spring,
On=monday
When
Then
Bid=offerta
Past perfect=simile al trapassato prossimo
I had seen the film
But i was happy to see it again
Book case=libreria
Blinds=tapparelle
Courtyard=cortile
Clifs=scogliere
Cart =carrello
Trolley=carrello
Cheque=assegno
Escalator=scale mobili
Scale=bilancia
Catch up=classe di recupero
I have to go in an hour
Definitely= false friend sicuramente
Recipt=ricevuta
8.95= 8pounds 95cents
Parcel=pacco
Go bananas=impazzire
Matches=fiammiferi
Lack=lacuna lack of choice lack of energy
Accesories=accessori
Hoodie=felpa
Ironmonger=ferramenta
Suburbs=periferia
Keen=portati
Fond=appassionati
Hair dresser=parrucchiere
Due=consegna
Wool=cotone
Ceiling=soffitto
Roof=credenza
Ceiling=soffitto
Roof=tetto
Cashier register
I need to do some grocery shopping
Addiction=dipendente
Holics=ossessione
Telly addicted=fissato con la tv
Gluned at =attacato a
Scratch=grattarsi
Window shopping=guarda le vetrine
consequences
Shift=turno
Night shift
Borrow/borrowed =prendere in prestito
Lend/lent/lent =dare in prestito
Fride=fritto
Go for
Go back
Go on
Go up
Mouse-mice
Mice pronunciato maise
Compelling=compulsivo
White clifs of dover
Cliffshanger
Hanger=attacca abiti
Plot=trama
Collapse=collassare
Maint=zeccha
Sweater=maglione
Sweatshirt=felpa senza cappuccio
Hoodie=felpa con cappuccio
Lively=vivace
Windmill=mulino
The same as
As much as
Narrow=stretto
To venture= avventurarsi
To pour=versare
Shade=ombra
Heat=calore
Within=entro,nel
Among=tra
Beside=accanto,affianco
Round=intorno
Ladder=scala
So= only for an adjective
ENGLISH 2021/2022
15/09/21
Anglo saxons
Origins:
1000 C.E.
Celts spread across Europe
Several years later they spread outwards
Taking over: France, Belgium, and crossing Britain
Language:
Celtic languages are older than English
They’re also incomprehensible for English speakers
They survived till today in some parts of Great Britain
Organisation:
The celtics lived in tribes
Religion:
The Celtic religion was Druidism
And they’re most important divinity was the sun god
Stonehenge could be a connection with their worship
Romans:
They came to Britain nearly 2000 years ago
We have a lot of evidence of their presence
Caesar:
raided Britain in 55 and 54 BCE
Claudius:
A hundred years later Romans conquered the island
Hadrian wall:
Under the emperor Hadrian a wall was built to defend the province Britannia
The wall runs from coast to coast
Roman modernisation:
They built towns, roads, stone villas , heating
They brought their language
And later on Christianity
Fall of Romans
The Romans occupied Britain for 400 years before the invasion in 43 B.C.
The last soldiers left Britain in 410 B.C.
New people came in ships and historians call them Anglo Saxons
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Esercizi di tu wife of bath
1 The wife of bath couldn’t hear well
2 the text tells us that she was very keen in making cloth
3 other women avoided to go before her in the communion because she would unleash her wrath
against them, probably because of pride
4 her scarves ( sciarpe)were of finely woven ground ( tessuto finemente intrecciato) the author
suggests that they may weight around 10 pounds (5kg)
5 her stockings (calze)were of the finest scarlet red and were very tight ( e erano strette)
6 her face was bold and handsome and had a red hue ( tonality rossa) and a gap teeth ( un dente
spalancato
7 she had not just one but five husbands at the church door the text also tells us that she had
other company in youth
8 she had been thrice to Jerusalem, she saw many weird rivers and went around them
She had been in Rome Italy and in boulogne France
Also in st james of compostella
So yes she was a skilled traveler
9 she set widely on the horse that proceeded easily on an ambling
10 her coat was meant to hide her wide hips
11 the text says that she liked to laugh and chat so we can say that she was sociable
12 she knew well about the remedies for love mischances (le disgrazie dell amore)
1 In making cloth she showed a great bent=she showed great bent in making cloth
2 If they indeed did so wrath was she=so wrath was she if they indeed did
3 And grated tight her shoes were soft and new=her shoes were soft and new garted tight
the wife’s hat is compared to a shield probably because of its diameter
The wife also concealed her heels which spurred the horse those things probably indicated
that she doesn’t want to show her self too much she’s a religious woman so she doesn’t expose
herself too much. The last two lines indicate that she had a wild romantic life vedere settling
down with her husbands
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Catenbury tales
24 tales (his work was unfinished)
The wife of bath
She was tailor
She had five housebounds
The first introduction of a feminist strong figure
Genre:Nobles and serves,satire, (Feudalism social system)
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UK AND GREAT BRITAIN
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Lezione con mahesh
Hence=quindi to

1)Throughout
2)thirty nine
3)Royal Weddings
4)The north
And also a 5)political prison
6)Birth place
7)The stunning
8)Dates back
9)baileys
10)Headquarter

Millenium= millennio
Monarchs=monarchi
Windsor castle
Throughout= dall’inizio alla fine
Bank= riva del fiume
Courtyard/ yard =cortile
Baileys=bastioni

Seconda ora lezione senza mahesh

1066-1154
1154-1307. 1 the Normans
2 the Plantagenets-> Henry II reforms —>scutage
3 the Tudors

Bishop=vescovo
Archbishop=arcivescovo

Feudal system (prononcia fiudal)

Revise= ripassare

The nobles
Clergy
Peasants—> turned into serves
HENRY II REFORMS:

MILITARY:
SCUTAGE->tassa/tributo dato per non prestare il servizio militare, il che portò il re ad assumere
mercenari
(A taxation a tribute given to the king to avoid military service, which was used by the king to
hire mercenaries)
JUSTICE-> common law ( England )
( USA )
( Australia )
The penal code doesn’t exist the common law is based on witnesses

(The king established the common law which was in contrast to other parts of Europe,where legal
practice was still based on the civil war of the Roman Empire and the canon law of the church)

CHURCH-> (the king wanted wanted to reduce the power and influence of the church)
In order to do this he made Thomas becket his friend a chancellor, head of the Church of
England but once he was appointed archbishop of catenbury he became the opposition and
after a long conflict he ended up getting killed

Thomas Becket: martyred in 29/12/1170

Compiti
Es 5

1)C
2)D
3)B
4)A
5)C
6)B
7)A
8)C
9)B
10)D

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5
Limits
Inspiration
Censorship
Imprisoned
Remarkable
Movement
Successfully
Admiration

28/09/21

Stuck in your mind=ti e rimesta impresso in mente

Come to mind=
Castle

Tower of London

In vogue

Vaguel memory

Vaguely
I vaguely remember

Vague=adjective
Vaguely=avverbio

Sweet nothing
Afganistan

On the verge of = sull’orlo di

On the verge of tears
1)Human beings
2)Torture
3)Everyone everywhere
4)30
5)1948
6)Sirius the great
7)Their religion
8)form of law
9)44B.C.
10)1215

Belong= appartenere
Regardless
Regarding

Everyone/everybody

1)

1c
2F
3B
4A
5I
6G
7E
8H
9D
10 J

2)
A5
B4
C3
D1
E2

Harvest= raccolto
To harvest= raccogliere i fritti di ciò che si ha seminato
Gather
Wage/salary
To bargain
Shortage
Scarceness—>scarcely

Nell’Inghilterra viene introdotta la Magna Carta primo documento ufficiale dei diritti umani

29/09/21
To delve into= approfondire
To tackle
To deal with
To cope with

To strengthen—>strong (regular)
To reinforce

Common prayer book

To gain
Treaty/agreement

Foreign policy

Heir=erede

To Appoint= di appuntare come titolo

Fare gli es 2,3,4 poi date a ogni paragrafo ad episodio e re un titolo creativo

Compiti:
2

1)F
2)H
3)G
4)D
5)B
6)C
7)E
8)A

3
1B
2A
3B
4C
5D
6A
7DB
8DB
9 AB
10 A B

1
henry VII consolidated his position as monarch through various ways.
Both by political way such as treaties and agreements with France and the Netherlands and also
with other ways like arranged marriages.
When he took the hand Cathrine of Aragon

2
Henry VII divorced Catherine of Aragon because his strong belief that a male heir was needed in
order to keep the country united and strong and Catherine which was his dead brother’s wife
was in her old age so it was difficult to Have another child

3
The act of supremacy was made purposely to give the monarch the official right to be the head
of the Church of England, while cutting out the power of the catholic pope
4
Edward VI didn’t rule in his own right because he inherited his kingdom when he was just nine
years old and his two powerful uncles imposed their dominance and he tragically died when he
was only 15 years old
5
Mary I because of her ruthless campaign to suppress Protestants, which brought the death of
300 man by being burnt at the stake

Titles
1 Henry VI the business man
2Henry VIIIthe play boy king
4 edward the kid who ruled England
5 Mary the Protestants nightmare

It showed how he was only concerned with his own pleasures and glory.
He did not care about the religious concerns or traditions
7
Henry married several times because his first two wives didn’t give him the male heir that he
believed necessarily to secure the throne his third wife Jane finally gave him that heir and his
fourth wife was just a whim of his,
8
His foreign affairs brought inflation to the country which took the citizens from well being to
begging in the streets.
This made the people increase their work in the fields that with time transformed in the industrial
revolution

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Takes on
Take on a commitment
Take on a responsibility
To manage
To face
To deal with
To deal with a problem

An hour
An honest
An honour/an honourable
A hotel

Delegate
Charismatic

3)
1e
2 w woman
3e
4e
5w
6 e retire

ARGOMENTI DELLA VERIFICA

Plantaginates
Magna Carta
Tudors
Elisabeth the I
Started in Italy in the late 14th century
Study and imitation of the classical cultures of Greece and Rome
Focus on man’s capacity for self improvement and self analysis
The English renaissance dates for 1509to 1660
Strong Protestants basis
Investigated human passions
New learning established in grammar schools and in two universities
Works written in their own language (English)
Greatest literary achievements in the fields of drama and poetry