Scarica Prova inglese maturita e più Prove svolte di Maturità in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Pag. 1/5 Sessione ordinaria 2023 Seconda prova scritta Ministero dell’istruzione e del merito PL0I - ESAME DI STATO CONCLUSIVO DEL SECONDO CICLO DI ISTRUZIONE Indirizzo: LICEO LINGUISTICO (Testo valevole per tutti gli indirizzi del settore LINGUISTICO) Disciplina: LINGUA E CULTURA STRANIERA 1 (INGLESE) IL CANDIDATO DEVE SVOLGERE TUTTE LE ATTIVITÀ COMPRESE NELLA PROVA PART 1 – COMPREHENSION AND INTERPRETATION Question A Read the following text She stood before us, without notes, books or nerves. The lectern was occupied by her handbag. She looked around, smiled, was still, and began. ‘You will have observed that the title of this course is “Culture and Civilisation”. Do not be alarmed. I shall not be pelting you with pie charts. I shall not attempt to stuff you with facts as a goose is stuffed with corn; this would only lead to an engorged liver, which would be 5 unhealthy. Next week I shall supply you with a reading list which is entirely optional; you will neither lose marks for ignoring it, nor gain them by relentless study. I shall teach you as the adults you undoubtedly are. The best form of education, as the Greeks knew, is collaborative. But I am no Socrates and you are not a classroom of Platos, if that is the correct plural form. Nonetheless, we shall engage in dialogue. At the same time – and since you are no longer in 10 primary school – I shall not dispense milksop encouragement and bland approval. For some of you, I may well not be the best teacher, in the sense of the one most suited to your temperament and cast of mind. I mention this in advance to those for whom it will be the case. Naturally, I hope you will find the course interesting, and, indeed, fun. Rigorous fun, that is. The terms are not incompatible. And I shall expect rigour from you in return. Winging it will not suit. 15 My name is Elizabeth Finch. Thank you.’ And she smiled again. None of us had taken a note. We gazed back at her, some in awe, a few in puzzlement bordering on irritation, others already half in love. I can’t remember what she taught us in that first lesson. But I knew obscurely that, for once in 20 my life, I had arrived at the right place. Her clothes. Let’s start at ground level. She wore brogues, black in winter, brown suede in autumn and spring. Stockings or tights – you never saw Elizabeth Finch with bare legs (and you certainly couldn’t imagine her in beachwear). Skirts just below the knee – she resisted the annual hemline tyranny. Indeed, she appeared to have settled on her look some time ago. It 25 could still be called stylish; another decade, and it might be antique or, perhaps, vintage. In summer, a box-pleated skirt, usually navy; tweed in winter. Sometimes she adopted a tartan or kiltish look with a big silver safety pin (no doubt there’s a special Scottish word for it). Obvious money was spent on blouses, in silk or fine cotton, often striped, and in no way translucent. Occasionally a brooch, always small and, as they say, discreet, yet somehow refulgent. She 30 rarely wore earrings (were her lobes even pierced? now there’s a question). On her left little finger, a silver ring which we took to be inherited, rather than bought or given. Her hair was a kind of sandy grey, shapely and of unvarying length. I imagined a regular fortnightly appointment. Well, she believed in artifice, as she told us more than once. And artifice, as she also observed, was not incompatible with truth. 35 (533 words) From Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch, London, Penguin Random House, 2022, pp. 3-4. Pag. 2/5 Sessione ordinaria 2023 Seconda prova scritta Ministero dell’istruzione e del merito PL0I - ESAME DI STATO CONCLUSIVO DEL SECONDO CICLO DI ISTRUZIONE Indirizzo: LICEO LINGUISTICO (Testo valevole per tutti gli indirizzi del settore LINGUISTICO) Disciplina: LINGUA E CULTURA STRANIERA 1 (INGLESE) Say whether each of the following statements is True (T) or False (F). Put a cross in the correct box in the table below and quote the first four words of the sentence where the piece of information is found 1. Ms Finch shows great concern about her class of adults. 2. Ms Finch will adopt the Socratic method of teaching. 3. Ms Finch is aware she might not be appreciated by everyone. 4. Ms Finch wears smart fashionable clothes. 5. It seems Ms Finch often goes to the hairdresser’s. Statement T F First four words of the sentence 1 2 3 4 5 Answer the following questions. Use complete sentences and your own words 6. Focus on the method Ms Finch is going to adopt in her course: describe it, including the explanation of the simile, and illustrate the students’ different reactions. 7. What aspects of Ms Finch’s personality can the reader infer from her description? Support your statements with references to the text. 8. What kind of narrator is used in this passage? Whose point of view is adopted?