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TheMakingoftheNation
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History Meet the Celts
Insights The origins of Halloween
FCE Writing – Part 1 An essay
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History From the Romans to the Anglo-Saxons
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 5
Text Bank 1–2: Beowulf
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History The Norman Conquest and feudalism
FCE Speaking – Part 1
1.4
History Henry II: the frst Plantagenet king
1.5
TheArts The Gothic cathedral
FCE Listening – Part 2
1.6
History King John and the Magna Carta
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 1
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Text Bank 3: Robin Hood
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TwoFilmsAbout... Robin Hood
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Literature The medieval ballad
Lord Randal
Text Bank 4: Bonny Barbara Allen
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History The birth of Parliament
Internet Lab Parliament
1.10 Society The three orders of medieval society
FCE Listening – Part 1
1.11 Literature Geoffrey Chaucer’s portrait of English society
The Canterbury Tales
When in April
The Wife of Bath
Text Bank 5–6: The Canterbury Tales
1.12 CulturalIssues Giving Identity a Voice
FCE Speaking – Part 2
The Wife of Bafa by P Agbabi
1.13 History The Black Death: a great human tragedy
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 6
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History Meet the Tudors
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 7
TheArts Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 1
History King by divine right
Insights The origin of Thanksgiving Day
Insights Guys Fawkes and Bonfre Night
Science An expanding world
FCE Listening – Part 3
Literature The English Renaissance
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Text Bank 7–8: Shakespeare’s sonnets
Text Bank 9: John Donne
2.7
CulturalIssues Woman, lady, mistress
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 3
My Mistress’ Eyes by W Shakespeare
Anne Hathaway by C A Duffy
2.8
Culture Why study Shakespeare?
FCE Listening – Part 4
FCE Writing – Part 2 An article
2.9
Literature William Shakespeare: England’s genius
Insights Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare’s birthplace
Text Bank 10–13: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Text Bank 14: Julius Caesar
2.10 Literature The structure of theatres
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Internet Lab The Globe Theatre
2.11 Literature The world of drama
What shall I swear by from Romeo and Juliet
by W Shakespeare
To be or not to be from Hamlet by W Shakespeare
Text Bank 15–16: Hamlet
The bond from The Merchant of Venice
by W Shakespeare
Text Bank 17–18: The Merchant of Venice
My hands are of your colour from Macbeth
by W Shakespeare
2.12 Literature Romeo and Juliet: the tragedy of not knowing
Romeo and Juliet
Two households
The ball
The balcony scene
Text Bank 19: Romeo and Juliet
2.13 TwoFilmsAbout... Romeo and Juliet
2.14 Literature Macbeth: the tragedy of ambition
Macbeth
The three witches
Duncan’s murder
Macbeth’s last monologue
2.15 Literature The Tempest: the comedy of forgiveness
The Tempest
The tempest
Prospero and Caliban
Prospero renounces his magic power
FCE Speaking – Part 3
Overview
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History The Civil War
TwoFilmsAbout... The Civil War
Society The Puritans
FCE Listening – Part 2
Insights The Puritan heritage in America
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3.4
Literature John Milton: Satan’s speech
Paradise Lost
Satan’s speech
3.5
Science The scientifc revolution
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Insights The Royal Society today
3.6
History The Restoration of the monarchy
3.7
History The birth of political parties
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Insights Modern political parties, the prime minister
and the Cabinet
3.8
Society A golden age
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 3
3.9
The Arts William Hogarth’s satire and social criticism
FCE Listening – Part 2
Internet Lab William Hogarth
FCE Speaking – Part 2
3.10 Literature The means for cultural debate
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 6
3.11 Literature The rise of the novel
Text Bank 20: Henry Fielding
3.12 Literature Daniel Defoe and the rise of the realistic novel
Robinson Crusoe
The journal
Man Friday
Text Bank 21–22: Robinson Crusoe
3.13 Literature Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver and the Lilliputians
Text Bank 23: Gulliver’s Travels
3.14 Cultural Issues Tourists, travellers and movers
About movers from Shame by S Rushdie
FCE Speaking – Part 3
FCE Writing – Part 2 A story
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Culture Is it Romantic?
FCE Speaking – Part 2
4.9
Literature Emotion vs reason
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 3
4.10 Literature William Wordsworth and nature
Insights The Lake District
Daffodils
Text Bank 29–31: William Wordsworth
4.11 Literature Samuel Taylor Coleridge and sublime nature
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The killing of the Albatross
Text Bank 32: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4.12 History The Napoleonic Wars
4.13 Literature George Gordon Byron and the stormy ocean
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
FCE Listening – Part 2
Apostrophe to the ocean
4.14 Literature John Keats and unchanging nature
Bright Star
Text Bank 33: John Keats
4.15 Literature Percy Bysshe Shelley and the free spirit
of nature
Ode to the West Wind
4.16 Literature Jane Austen and the theme of love
Text Bank 34–35: Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mr and Mrs Bennet
Darcy proposes to Elizabeth
Text Bank 36: Pride and Prejudice
4.17 Two Films About Pride and Prejudice
4.18 Cultural Issues Marriage
Any wife is better than no wife from Brick Lane
by M Ali
FCE Writing – Part 2 A review
Overview
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Revolutions
and the Romantic Spirit
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History An age of revolutions
Society Industrial society
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Literature William Blake and the victims
of industrialisation
London
Text Bank 24–27: William Blake
History The American War of Independence
Insights America’s birthday
Internet Lab The US government
Philosophy and the Arts The sublime: a new sensibility
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 7
Literature The Gothic novel
Literature Mary Shelley and the new interest in science
Frankenstein
The creation of the monster
Specifcation 5
A Two-Faced Reality
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History The frst half of Queen Victoria’s reign
Society Life in the Victorian town
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Coketown from Hard Times by C Dickens
Society The Victorian compromise
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 3
Literature The Victorian novel
Text Bank 37: Emily Brontë
Text Bank 38: Thomas Hardy
Literature Charles Dickens and children
Oliver Twist
Oliver wants some more
Literature Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë and the
theme of education
FCE Listening – Part 4
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Hard Times
The defnition of a horse
Jane Eyre
Punishment
Internet Lab Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
FCE Speaking – Part 2
Text Bank 39: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
5.7
Cultural Issues The role of the woman: angel
or pioneer?
Becoming a nurse from Atonement by I McEwan
FCE Writing – Part 2 A report
5.8
History The British Empire
Insights Burma: the price of independence
5.9
Society The mission of the coloniser
The White Man’s Burden by R Kipling
5.10 Science and Philosophy Charles Darwin and evolution
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 6
Text Bank 40: Charles Darwin
5.11 Literature Robert Louis Stevenson: Victorian hypocrisy
and the double in literature
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The story of the door
Text Bank 41: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde
5.12 The Arts New aesthetic theories
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Internet Lab Pre-Raphaelite painters
5.13 Literature Aestheticism
5.14 Literature Oscar Wilde: the brilliant artist and Aesthete
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian’s death
Text Bank 42: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Text Bank 43: The Importance of Being Earnest
5.15 Two Films About… Oscar Wilde
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Literature The American Renaissance
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 6
Text Bank 44: Nathaniel Hawthorne
6.9 History The Gilded Age
Insights Yellowstone National Park
6.10 Society The new American businesses
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 1
6.11 Literature Herman Melville and Moby-Dick:
an American epic
Moby-Dick
Moby Dick
6.12 Literature Walt Whitman: the American bard
I Hear America Singing
6.13 Literature Emily Dickinson: poetry of isolation
Hope is the thing with feathers
Text Bank 45: Emily Dickinson
6.14 Culture Issues The path towards personal
independence
Out by himself from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by R Bach
FCE Speaking – Part 2
FCE Writing – Part 1 An essay
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Society The beginning of an American identity
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 6
The Arts The Hudson River School
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 1
History Manifest Destiny
FCE Listening – Part 2
Internet Lab American Indians
History The question of slavery
History Abraham Lincoln
FCE Reading and Use of English – Part 2
Insights The Lincoln Memorial
O Captain! My Captain! by W Whitman
History The American Civil War
Two Films About… The Civil War
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The New Frontier
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The Great Watershed
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History The Edwardian age
History World War I
Insights Remembrance Day
IELTS Listening – Section 4
There is nothing worse than war from A Farewell
to Arms by E Hemingway
Text Bank 46: Ernest Hemingway
The Arts World War I in English painting
Internet Lab Paul Nash
Literature Modern poetry: tradition and experimentation
Literature The War Poets
The Soldier by R Brooke
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Dulce et Decorum Est by W Owen
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 47: Siegfried Sassoon
Text Bank 48: Isaac Rosenberg
Literature The Easter Rising and the Irish War
of Independence
Literature William Butler Yeats and Irish nationalism
Easter 1916
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
Text Bank 49: W.B. Yeats
Two Films About… The Irish Question
Literature Thomas Stearns Eliot and the alienation
of modern man
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The Waste Land
The Burial of the Dead
The Fire Sermon
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
Text Bank 50: T.S. Eliot
7.10 Culture A deep cultural crisis
7.11 Psychology Sigmund Freud: a window on the
unconscious
IELTS Academic Writing – Task 2
7.12 Literature The modern novel
IELTS Academic Reading
Text Bank 51–52: D.H. Lawrence
The funeral from Ulysses by J Joyce
7.13 Literature Joseph Conrad and imperialism
Heart of Darkness
The chain-gang
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 53: Heart of Darkness
7.14 Literature Edward Morgan Forster and the contact
between different cultures
A Passage to India
Insights The Barabar Caves
Aziz and Mrs Moore
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 54: A Passage to India
7.15 Literature James Joyce and Dublin
Text Bank 55: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dubliners
Eveline
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 56: Dubliners
Text Bank 57: Ulysses
7.16 Literature Virginia Woolf and ‘moments of being’
Mrs Dalloway
Clarissa and Septimus
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 58: Mrs Dalloway
7.17 CulturalIssues Moments of being: one moment in time
Mrs Brown from The Hours by M Cunningham
IELTS Speaking – Part 1
ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 1
Testyourself ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 2
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TheArts Edward Hopper and the poetry of silence
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
8.5
Society The Great Depression of the 1930s in the USA
IELTS Academic Reading
IELTS Academic Writing – Task 1
Internet Lab American social realism in photography
Text Bank 61: John Steinbeck
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Society Britain between the wars
IELTS Academic Reading
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Insights The British Commonwealth of Nations
8.7
Literature Wystan Hugh Auden and the committed
writers
IELTS Listening – Section 4
Another Time
Refugee Blues
Text Bank 62–63: W.H. Auden
8.8
History World War II and after
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
Insights The United Nations Organisation
Internet Lab The United Nations Organisation
8.9
TwoFilmsAbout… World War II
8.10 Literature The dystopian novel
Text Bank 64: Aldous Huxley
8.11 Literature George Orwell and political dystopia
Text Bank 65: Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Big Brother is watching you
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 66: Nineteen Eighty-Four
8.12 CulturalIssues Imagining the future
IELTS Speaking – Part 2
You have to carry the fre from The Road
by C McCarthy
8.13 Literature The Theatre of the Absurd and Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Nothing to be done
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Testyourself ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 2
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History The USA in the frst decades of the 20th century
Insights The history of Wall Street
Literature A new generation of American writers
Text Bank 59: Langston Hughes
Literature Francis Scott Fitzgerald: the writer
of the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby
Nick meets Gatsby
ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 1
Text Bank 60: The Great Gatsby
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History Turbulent times in Britain
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 1
Text Bank 67: John Osborne
History Mid-century America
Internet Lab The Apollo 11 moon landing
Text Bank 68: J.D. Salinger
Culture The cultural revolution
IELTS Academic Reading
Insights Carnaby Street
IELTS Listening – Section 4
Annus Mirabilis by P Larkin
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
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Literature Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation
Insights City Lights Booksellers & Publishers,
San Francisco
On the Road
Insights Route 66
Into the West
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
History The Civil Rights Movement in the USA
IELTS Academic Writing – Task 2
The Arts Pop Art and Andy Warhol
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
Two Films About… The Sixties
History The Irish Troubles
Literature Seamus Heaney and Irish politics
The Tollund Man
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 69: Seamus Heaney
History Britain: the Thatcher years and beyond
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type A
Literature Ian McEwan and Thatcher’s England
The Child in Time
A sense of loss
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 70: Black Dogs
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History The USA: from Reagan to Obama
IELTS Listening – Section 3
9.13 Literature Don DeLillo and 9/11 America
Falling Man
Down the Tower
9.14 Literature Voices from English-speaking countries
Text Bank 71: J.M. Coetzee
Text Bank 72: Doris Lessing
9.15 Literature Nadine Gordimer and post-apartheid
South Africa
A Soldier’s Embrace
Insights The system of apartheid
A change of life
9.16 Cultural Issues Building peace
IELTS Speaking – Part 3
The Season of Phantasmal Peace by D Walcott
ESAME DI STATO Terza Prova – Type B
Text Bank 73: Derek Walcott
Test yourself ESAME DI STATO Prova Orale – Part 2
Exam Reference
Literary Genre Reference
Literary Language Reference
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