Intermediate B1– B2

Network Intermediate B1– B2 CLIL Lessons Contents CLIL 1 Literature • The Diary of Samuel Pepys CLIL 2 Literature • John Keats CLIL 3 History • Queen Elizabeth I and The Golden Age CLIL 4 History • The American Revolution CLIL 5 Politics • The G8 CLIL 6 Earth Sciences • Petroleum CLIL 7 Chemistry • Enzymes CLIL 8 Biology • DNA and Genetic Engineering CLIL 9 History of Art • John Constable CLIL 10 Philosophy • Two British Philosophers 1 CLIL • Literature lesson 1 The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1 Do you keep a diary? How often do you write in it? What sort of things do you write? Do you hide it? Do you think your diary could be of historical interest in the future? In what way? 2 Between 1660 and 1669 Samuel Pepys (/pi:ps/) kept a diary. Read his biography. Where was he born? What was his diary about? Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys was born in In some ways his diary was London in 1633. He was the son very ordinary – he recorded of a tailor, and the fifth of eleven details of his daily life, work, and children, but by the time he was leisure activities. It was written seven, only three of his siblings in code, perhaps because he had survived. didn’t want his wife to read it, He studied at Magdalene but also because it was not safe College, Cambridge, and to say, or write exactly what you graduated in 1654. After felt about those in power. What university, he went to live in is special about his diary are the London with his father’s cousin, fascinating eyewitness accounts Sir Edward Montagu, the 1st of events in 17th century The last entry was recorded on Earl of Sandwich. England, for example, the Great 31st May 1669. Pepys was losing Samuel Pepys first worked Plague in 1665, which killed his sight and was not able to in London as a secretary to Sir thousands of people; and the continue. He died in 1703. Edward. He then became an Great Fire of London in 1666. In 1819 Pepys’ diaries were administrator in the navy. Pepys It has become an important discovered by Reverend John rose to become Chief Secretary to historical document about the Smith, a student at Magdalene the Admiralty under King James Restoration period in England, College, Cambridge, who II. However, he is not famous for when the monarchy under decoded and published them. his work, but for the very detailed Charles II was restored after Pepys’ diary is kept in the Pepys personal diary he kept during the a period of republican rule under Library in Magdalene College, years 1660–1669. the military leader, Cromwell. Cambridge. 3 Match the words from the text (1–5) to the definitions (a–e). 1 ___ detailed a a system of writing information so that most people can’t read it 2 ___ recorded b descriptions of an event by someone who was there at the time 3 ___ code c with lots of facts and information 4 ___ eyewitness accounts d the section for one particular day in a diary 5 ___ entry e wrote down Glossary: keep – tenere 4 Answer the questions. hide – nascondere tailor – sarto 1 How many brothers and sisters did Pepys have? siblings – fratelli 2 When did Pepys keep his diary? had survived – erano sopravvissuti 3 Name some historical events that Pepys wrote graduated – si laureò earl – conte about in his diary. navy – marina Admiralty – Ammiragliato 4 What was the Restoration period in England? leisure – tempo libero safe – prudente 5 Why did Pepys stop writing the diary? plague – peste Restoration – Restaurazione 6 Where is Pepys’ diary now? sight – vista decoded – decifrò 1 Network Intermediate • CLIL Lessons © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE CLIL • Literature lesson 1 5 Read the entries A–D from Samuel Pepys’ diary. Which refer to: 1 the Great Plague ____ /____ 2 his daily life ____ 3 the Great Fire of London ____ A 1660 January 16th D 1666 September 2nd (Lord’s day) … we went towards Westminster on foot, and at the Golden … Jane comes and tells me that she hears Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint of wine, that above 300 houses have been burned and so parted; and thence home, where I found my wife and down to-night by the fire we saw, and that maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his it is now burning down all Fish-street, by bell, just under my window as I was writing of this very line, London Bridge. So I made myself ready and cried, “Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy presently, and walked to the Tower, and morning.” I then went to bed and left my wife and the maid there got up upon one of the high places, a-washing still. Sir J. Robinson’s little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other side the B 1665 June 7th end of the bridge … So down, with my This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or heart full of trouble, to the Lieutenant of three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and “Lord the Tower, who tells me that it begun this have mercy upon us” write there; which was a sad sight to me, morning in the King’s baker’s house in being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. Pudding-lane, and that it hath burned St. Magnus’s Church and most part of Fish- street already. So I down to the water- side, and there got a boat and through C 1665 August 31st bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire. … Everybody endeavouring to remove In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of the plague. their goods, and flinging into the river or But it is feared that the true number of the dead this week is bringing them into lighters that lay off; near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice poor people staying in their houses as long of through the greatness of the number, and partly from the as till the very fire touched them, and then Quakers and others that will not have nay bell ring for them. running into boats… Glossary: parted = left – partimmo thence = then/from there – poi, da lì staid up = stayed up – rimasi sveglio bell – campana frosty – gelido will – volontà write = written – scritto Quakers – quaccheri nay = (not) any – nessun burned down = distrutte presently = quickly – presto hath = has lamentable = sad, terrible – pietoso goods = possessions – cose lighters = small boats lay off = were nearby – erano vicine 6 Match the words from the diary entries A and D (1–6) to 8 Read entry D again. Make a list of the events, the definitions (a–d) and the emotions and reactions. 1 ___ maid 4 ___ endeavouring 2 ___ infinite 5 ___ flinging What do you think? 3 ___ Lieutenant 1 What historical events, or aspects of today’s a throwing something in a careless way everyday life might people in the future find b attempting to do something interesting if they found a diary, written now? c an officer of middle rank in the army or the navy d a female servant in a house or a hotel MINI-PROJECT e without limits Do some research on the Internet to find out about 7 Answer the questions. either what happened after September 2nd 1666 in London or an event in your town’s history. Imagine 1 What was the weather like that January morning? you were an eye-witness and write a diary entry. 2 What sign did people put on their door to show they had the plague? 3 How many people in London died of the plague during the week of 31st August 1665? 4 Where did Pepys go to watch the fire of London? 5 Where did the Great Fire of London start? 6 What did Londoners do to try and escape from the fire? 2 Network Intermediate • CLIL Lessons © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE CLIL • Literature lesson 2 John Keats 1 Who is your favourite poet? Why? The English Romantic Movement Name some of his/her poems. The English Romantic Movement took place at the end of the 18th 2 Read the first paragraph of and the beginning of the 19th centuries. It was a reaction to the the text, The English Romantic Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In England, the most Movement. Name 6 English important Romantic poets were Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Romantic poets. Bryon, Shelley, and Keats. 3 Read the next part of the text, John Keats – His poetry. What is John Keats – His poetry special about it? Keats’s poetry explores the ideas of beauty and truth and the aesthetic ideal. Through his poems, he illustrates the relationship between 4 Read John Keats – His life, and pleasure and pain, happiness and melancholy. His most famous poems complete the text using the words are called Odes, in which the writer’s private thoughts and feelings are in the box. expressed, and which usually address a person or an object. They are remarkable for their use of imagery and metaphor, as well as their masterpieces stanzas poetry style and structure. sonnet pastime 5 Answer the questions. John Keats – His life 1 What made Keats different from John Keats was born in London in 1795, into a family in the livery business.

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