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mercoledì 22 aprile 2020

Gulliver's travels






STRANGE EXPERIMENTS IN LAPUTA

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·     There is a project to extract sunbeams from cucumbers
·        A scientist tries to turn excrement back into food
·        Another is attempting to turn ice into gunpowder and is writing a treatise about the malleability of fire, 
·        An architect is designing a way to build houses from the roof down
·        A blind master is teaching his blind apprentices to mix colors for painters according to smell and touch.
·        A doctor in another room tries to cure patients by blowing air through them. 
·        One professor has a class full of boys working from a machine that produces random sets of words. Using this machine, the teacher claims, anyone can write a book on philosophy or politics. 
·        A linguist in another room is attempting to remove all the elements of language except nouns. 
·        Another professor tries to teach mathematics by having his students eat wafers that have mathematical proofs written on them.
·        Another claims that conspiracies against the government could be discovered by studying the excrement of subjects.

The academy of LAGADO serves to create entirely useless projects while the people starve outside its walls. 
The result is a society in which science is promoted for no real reason and time is wasted as a matter of course.

SYMBOLS
The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny (weak) existence.
The Brobdingnagians symbolize the private, personal, and physical side of humans when examined up close and in great detail.
The Laputans represent the folly of theoretical knowledge that has no relation to human life and no use in the actual world. 
The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rational existence, a life governed by sense and moderation of which philosophers since Plato have long dreamed. They have no names in the narrative nor any need for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual identity
ENGLAND all the races Gulliver encounters could be versions of the English and that his travels merely allow him to see various aspects of human nature more clearly

mercoledì 8 aprile 2020

THEMES DORIAN GRAY


The ending  of the story is CONVENTIONAL- THE VILLAIN is PUNISHED by his own soul 







Dorian tries to separate his external appearance from his internal reality. In society his appearance enchants everybody and even if he commits criminal acts nobody can believe that he can be corrupted. In fact he hasn’t got a real identity, people don’t know the real person but the character of Dorian. He is forced to live according to a code that doesn’t correspond to what he really wants.
The picture expresses the dark side of Dorian. Stabbing the portrait, Dorian kills himself.  The bad side of Dorian is a part of his personality. It’s his double. So, the contrast betweewn how he is inside and how he appears to the others brings him to death. 
The horrible picture is also a symbol of the immorality of the Victorian middle-class, while Dorian and his innocent appearance are symbols of the hypocrisy of his time.



sabato 4 aprile 2020

The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates


Answer the questions while watching the video
    1)What will kill over 10 million people in the next few decades in Bil Gates’ opinion?
   2) Are we ready for the next epidemic ?
  3) Did we have a system to face Ebola ?
4) What did we especially lack of?
5)If we have a large epidemic what do we need ?
 6) What could be done with the blood of survivors ?
7) What’s the difference between movies and reality when dealing with epidemics ?
8) Why didn’t Ebola spread so much?
9)When did the Spanish flu spread?
 19 How many people die from that epidemic?

11)Give some examples of the tools that
in his opinion we can use nowadays to fight an epidemic.
12)In the last part of the video Bill Gates talks about the things
that we need if we have to face a massive epidemic  in detail.

13)What are those things?
14)In what way global health will go down ?
15)Why should investing money on health be a priority for each country?

Students First year Guided written text
DESCRIBE YOUR FAVOURITE SHOP




Where is it?
How often do you go there?
What does it sell?
Why do you think it is a good shop?
Why do you like it?
What about the shop assistants? Are they kind? Are they rude?Can they help you easily?
How about prices. are they cheap or expensive?
Give an example of things you have bought  (tu hai comprato )there 


     


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