Inglese

Characters
Dickens shifted the social frontiers of the novel: the 18th-century realistic upper middle-class word was replaced by that of the lower orders. He created caricatures, trying to arouse the reader’s interest by describing the characters, habits, and language of the middle and lower classes in modern London, like lodging-house keepers, shop

In this period he wrote the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge; this lyrics begins with his Preface. The first poem belong to Coleridge (Ancient Mariner); the last belongs to Wordsworth (Tintern Abbey). These years were also characterized by other poems such as “The prelude” an autobiographical poem, “The journals” to give an insight in his experience of p

Unrest and repression
This period represents the passage from an agricultural system to an industrial one. This passage had different reactions: happiness for the birth of machinery, unhappiness for the unemployment, and victory of England over france. It was introduced the theory of smith that say: people shouldn’t follow the internal and external

Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 then he was sent to Oxford. As a disciple of Pater he accepted the theory of “Art for Art’s Sake”. In 1880 he began to write short stories as “The Canterville Ghost” and in 1891 the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. In 1891 Wilde was sent to prison for homosexual offences. When he was released, the went into exile in F

The guest sit on a stone, he has to listen: so the bright – eyed sailor speaks.
“The ship, was greeted, left merrily the harbour and sailed below the church, the hill and the lighthouse.
The sun rose out of the sea on the left; it shone bright and set down into the sea on the right.
Every day it shone higher in the sky, till when it was over

The flag is very known and it is also called ‘strips and stars’. In fact there are 50 stars which symbolise the 50 states and 13 stripes which symbolise the first 13 states that were colonised by English people.
This country is so big that it passes though 5 time zones: Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific and Alaskan time. This means

Le domande sono spesso formulate con How long? (=da quando/da quanto tempo?) oppure ponendo (for) long in fine di frase.
In frasi affermative “da molto tempo”, è espresso con (for) a long time o, più informale, for ages.
Duration form or conclude action
Nella forma di durata il passato prossimo segnala che un’azione dura ancora nel presente.

Gonna = skirt
Guanti = gloves
Impermeabile = rain coat
Infradito = flip-flop
Maglietta = t-shirt
Maglione con bottoni = cardigan
Maglione = jumper o sweater
Mi sta bene (estetica) = it suits me
Mi va bene (taglia) = it fits me
Mutande F = knickers
Mutande M = underpants
Pantaloncini corti = shorts
Pantal

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