Inglés. Temario. Volumen 2. Cuerpo de Profesores de Educación Secundaria.

Resumen:

Este libro presenta un temario renovado destinado a los aspirantes al Cuerpo de Profesores de Educación Secundaria de la especialidad de Inglés, elaborado de tal modo que no solo sirve para el desarrollo escrito del tema, sino que además resulta útil para abordar la parte práctica de la prueba. De hecho, el empleo de una estructura común en todos los temas, así como la incorporación de epígrafes clave y un espíritu sintetizador, es lo que otorga un carácter distintivo a este temario. Igualmente, este volumen incluye una descripción del temario que señala sus rasgos esenciales, teniendo en cuenta los aspectos relevantes que los tribunales valoran a la hora de calificar el examen, ya que las autoras han pasado por dicho proceso y lo han escrito basándose en su experiencia personal con el fin de ayudar a los opositores en el proceso selectivo.

Indice:
Theme 35. The expository text: structures and characteristics.
Theme 36. Conversational texts: structure and characteristics.
Theme 37. Literary language. Literary genres. Literary criticism.
Theme 38. Scientific and technological, commercial and administrative English.
Theme 39. Strategies for text analysis.
Theme 40. Communication strategies. Definition and typology.
Theme 41. Romanisation. The influence of Latin on the English language. Borrowings and calques.
Theme 42. The Norman conquest. The influence of French on the English language. Borrowings and calques.
Theme 43. English medieval literature of oral transmission: The Arthurian Legend. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales.
Theme 44. Shakespeare and his times. Most representative works.
Theme 45. Great Britain in the eighteenth century: social, economic and political articulation. Cultural and technical activity. Great novelists of the time.
Theme 46. The historical configuration of the United States of America: From independence to the Civil War. Reference novels: The Scarlet Letter and The Red Badge of Courage.
Theme 47. The English Industrial Revolution. Its influence as a model for historical transformation. Social and political changes through the literature of the time. Charles Dickens.
Theme 48. Romanticism in Great Britain: poetry and novel.
Theme 49. Construction and administration of the British Colonial Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
Theme 50. The Victorian Novel.
Theme 51. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Theme 52. The Historical Evolution of The United States: from Abraham Lincoln to F.D. Roosevelt.
Theme 53. The novel, tale and poetry in the United States of America: Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman.
Theme 54. Humourism: Mark Twain. Henry James: Cosmopolitanism.
Theme 55. The Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway. The narrative works of William Faulkner.
Theme 56. Historical relations between Ireland and Great Britain. Irish authors: Sean O’casey and James Joyce.
Theme 57. The United Kingdom in the period between the Wars and during the Second World War. Representative literary authors.
Theme 58. Political, social and economic development in the U.K and the Republic of Ireland since 1945. Presence in the European community. Literary panorama.
Theme 59. Political, social and economic evolution of the United States of America since 1945. Its importance in international politics. Literary panorama in the United States of America at present.
Theme 60. The North American Black Novel: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The English detective novel: P.D. James.
Theme 61. The incidence of the cinema in the spread of literary production in the English language.
Theme 62. The commonwealth. Cultural diversity. The development of linguistic varieties. Intercultural influences and manifestations.The novels of E. M. Foster, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer.
Theme 63. British Institutions: Parliament, Government, Political Parties and the electoral system. The Monarchy.
Theme 64. The Institutions of the United States of America. The Constitution. Territorial organisation. The President. Congress. Political parties and the electoral system.
Theme 65. The educational system in English-speaking countries.
Theme 66. The cultural dimension of English in the world nowadays. British and American English. The presence of the English language in Spain. Anglicisms.
Theme 67. The mass media in English: journalistic style. The press: quality papers and popular papers.
Theme 68. The mass media in the English language: radio and television. Advertising in the English-speaking world: linguistic and semiologic aspects.
Theme 69. Society and culture. Stereotypes and emblems of Englishspeaking countries. Music in the English language as a means of cultural influence.