a.s. 2011/2012

 Kahlil Gibran On Children

a.s. 2010/2011

Geordie (a traditional ballad sung by Gabriella Rutigliano, with lyrics)
Geordie (Italian and English Version)

The Middle Ages (audiolesson podcast)

Introduction to the reading of short stories

"Emancipation: a Life Fable" by Kate Chopin (MP3 read by Alan Davis-Drake for Librivox.org)

"Her letters" by Kate Chopin:
"Her letters": read by MG Tundo (MP3) [http://librivox.org]
"Her letters": a comment (Studies in America Fiction) (very difficult)

a.s. 2009/2010

Prospero's Speech by Loreena McKennit (musica e testo)
Channel Your English - intermediate (listening transcripts pdf - complete)
Channel Your English Intermediate (transcripts - file word-doc)

a.s. 2008/2009

Extreme sports (abridged from Wikipedia)

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
Un posto pulito, illuminato bene (tr. di Marco Roberto Capelli)
A Clean Well-Lighted Place  [A commentary]

AUDIOLESSONS

LITERARY LINKS. From the Origins to the Romantic Age, CIDEB
Downloadable MP3 files (read by MG Tundo)

Early Britain: a History of Invasions-The Celts (pp.11-12)
Roman Britain (pp.12-14)
The Anglo-Saxon invasion-The birth of a legend-The seven kingdoms (pp. 16-17)
Anglo-Saxon culture (p. 18)

The Seafarer (part 2)

a.s. 2005-2006

Roald Dahl's Genesis and Catastrophe (1953)
Telling stories
What is poetry

Language and reality
Sexism in language
Sexism in language (with examples)

a.s. 2004-2005

William Shakespeare, Sonetto 55
On The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
 

a.s. 2003-2004

Notes for Salman Rushdie:The Satanic Verses

a.s. 2001-2002

Greensleeves (Lyrics and Midi files)
English History: The Origins

Beowulf and The Heroic Ideal
Cruel sister (a ballad)
Geordie (F. De Andrè)
Canzoni di De André da Spoon River