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PROGRAMMA finale

Classe 5A Abacus a.s. 2016/17

Materia: Lingua Inglese

Docente: Prof. Rita Armati

Monte ore annue effettivamente svolte al 15 Maggio: 74

A) LETTURE TECNICHE:

dal testo English tools for Information Technology and Telecommunication Mirella
Ravecca, Edizione DIGIT.

1) Section 1- THE IT revolution

UNIT 1 - The Information society;

Text 1- Technological devices( pp 10,11)

UNIT 2: Computers get smaller and smaller;

Text 1- The evolution in Computer Technology: Desktop, Laptop and Tablet;

Comparing the Apple Technology with the Android one.

Text 2: The Touchscreen Revolution;

The smartphone and the touchscreen technology.

The history of mobile phones in brief;
The cellphones of the future

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 Text 3: PC tablets and the touchscreen revolution;

VIDEOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcZpQCLb4E

(Britlab BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw_57-PHb0

How touchscreen technology works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyCE2h_yjxI

STEVE JOBS :

Presentation of the Original iPad Apple Special Event 2010 (VIDEO:

the first 12 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KN-5zmvjAo

UNIT 3: Computer issues,

Text 2: Cyber crime

Text 3: Computer security Threats;

Text 4 : Phishing;

2) Section 2- Getting to know the hardware

UNIT 5- Storage

- Different storage devices: Talking about the most common external storage devices,
USB pen, Hard disk, Sd, Micro Sd cards, DVD, CDs,. Their characteristics, advantages,
disadvantages

3) Section 3- Software

UNIT 7- Operating systems

- Text 1: Operating Systems - Brief

- Text 3: What is Google Android;

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 4) Section 4: Connecting to the Net

UNIT 10 Networks:

- Text 1, text 2: How Networks are laid out;

- Text 4: Standard and protocols (first column only)

5) Section 5: Going online

UNIT 12 Using the Web

Text 1- Finding and sharing information (page 126 ONLY)

Evaluating Internet resources: Wikipedia and the INFORMATION

NOWADAYS

Educational tutorials: trutworthiness of the content, viewers, pros and

cons
PIRACY AND FAKE news:
1. http://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/why-use-sources ;
2. Evaluating Internet Resources, Georgetown University :
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-
guides/evaluating-internet-content

UNIT 13- Communication on the Net

- Text 4: Social Networks- Chat in the dock;

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Ask, Linkedin:

characteristics, differences

- Text 5: Stay private in public;

FOCUS ON the ONLINE HATE SPEECH phenomenon

http://www.paroleostili.com/
http://www.paroleostili.com/firma-manifesto/

APPROFONDIMENTO DOPO IL 15 MAGGIO

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-
community/10103508221158471/?pnref=story

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 manifesto di Zuckerberg Sulla Community Facebook (16 Febbraio2017) , Solo
parte introduttiva

FREEDOM OF SPEECH :THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

UNITED NATIONs official site: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-
rights/

UNIT 14: Multimedia and entertainment on the Net

- Text 4: MUSIC on the Net (Spotify and iTunes)

UNIT 15 -Shopping and Business online

- Text 1: The Web is the worlds biggest shop window;

- Text 2: How ebay sells everything;

SECTION 6: IT JOBS

Job hunting in the Digital Age

Differences between Job searching in the traditional way (Newspaper ads, Job
Agencies, Word of-mouth etc) and the online search. Visiting Uk online job
searching websites
New job careers in IT: the Blogger, Vblogger, You tuber, App developer.
characteristics of the jobs, skills and competences required, technical expertise required,
salaries

Text 6 Cvs and Covering letters ( focus on the Europass -European standard CV)

B) CURRENT AFFAIRS

THE 2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

And the winner is/will be.???- The US Presidential elections 2016

2012 ELECTIONS

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 - VIDEO + Full text of President Barack Obamas Inaugural Address,
Capitol Hill, Washington D.C January 20, 2013

TEXT: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-
president-barack-obamaVIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncqb-
n3zMo 19 mins

- THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING at general elections:

VIDEO: Dont vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8y1e-z1JA0&t=6s

VIDEO:Save the day: Vote https://youtu.be/U4ENWSYhu68

The North American Government (Cooperative learning work)

The Democratic Federal Republic;
The Federal and Local Government;
The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights
The Government: Legislative, Judicial, Executive Powers
The Congress and the bicameral system
The PRESIDENT: responsabilities, power, terms of mandate

The ELECTORAL SYSTEM

The Presidential elections,
The Great Electors
The calendar of Presidential elections
The bipartisan system: Democrats and Republicans.

The 2016 ELECTIONS

Candidates:Their values and priorities; characteristics, personalities, their popularity,
political background, their strong and weak points, their charisma.

VIDEOS:

First Presidential debate : Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton, Hofstra University,

NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHPrYUcoi0

( first 30 minutes)

Final Debate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLdmEDOAA4A

(first 30 minutes)

President Obama speech on Trumps victory: (first 10 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17V60dyo7Ig

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 DONALD TRUMPS VICTORY SPEECH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFeq6zEu26k

INAUGURATION DAY:President Trumps Inaugural speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBsJNdK1t0

C) HISTORY : TOTALITARIANISMS
(Cooperative learning activity)
Definition;
Nazism, Fascism, Comunism,
Causes, The Dictators, Consequences, Consensus and propaganda, Segregations,
deportation. The Shoah; The position of the intellectuals;
The risk of new Totalitarian regimes.

I) RIFLESSIONI SULLA LINGUA:

Attivit di revisione strutture in corso anno : revisione e rinforzo di alcune strutture

grammaticali incontrate sia nello svolgimento delle Letture Tecniche, che di tutti gli altri argomenti
del Programma e non.

Jesi, 15 Maggio 2017

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