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St. Peter's Baldachin ( Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy.

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Succeeded =   riuscì/è riuscito
Chose him = lo ha scelto/ lo scelse
Was = era/è stato/fu
Were = erano/sono stati/furono

Il SIMPLE PAST si usa per parlare di azioni concluse che si sono svolte nel passato. Può corrispondere all'imperfetto, al passato prossimo o al passato remoto italiano.
ESEMPI:
John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
My granddad died last year.
He lived in Dublin in 1976.
We crossed the Channel yesterday.

Il simple past si utilizza sempre per indicare in che momento si è verificato un avvenimento; pertanto, questo tempo è sempre associato a un determinato tipo di espressioni temporali:

frequenza: often, sometimes, always

I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school.

un momento preciso: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
She finished her work atseven o'clock
I went to the theatre last night

un momento non preciso: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in caves a long time ago.
She played the piano when she was a child.

Nota: la parola ago è un termine utile per esprimere la distanza nel passato. Si colloca dopo il periodo di tempo: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.

COME SI FORMA IL "SIMPLE PAST"

SIMPLE PAST DEI VERBI REGOLARI

Affermativa
Soggetto + verbo + ed
They played
Negativa
Soggetto + did not + infinito del verbo senza to
They  didn't play.
Interrogativa
Did + soggetto + infinito del verbo senza to
Did they play?
Interrogativa negativa
Did not + soggetto + infinito del verbo senza to
Didn't they play?

VARIAZIONI ORTOGRAFICHE

- verbi terminanti in -e                           live →lived
- verbi terminanti in -y preceduta da consonate
worry → worried
- verbi terminanti in -y preceduta da vocale   enjoy → enjoyed
- verbi monosillabici terminanti con una sola consonante
preceduta da una sola vocale     slip → slipped
MA: clean → cleaned
- verbi bisillabici terminanti con una consonante preceduta
da una sola vocale e con l'accento sell'ultima sillaba
refer → referred

PRONUNCIA

La -ed del simple past viene pronunciata:

/id/ nei verbi che terminano coi suoni /t/ e /d/

mend | mended visit | visited

post | posted suggest | suggested

/t/ quando il verbo termina con i suoni /f/ , /k/ , /p/ , /s/ , /S/ , /tS/

cough | coughed                                          miss | missed

walk | walked                                             finish | finished
tip | tipped                                                watch | watched

/d/ in tutti gli altri casi

play | played                                           arrive | arrived
travel | travelled                                    clean | cleaned

SIMPLE PAST DEI VERBI IRREGOLARI
Alcuni vebri sono irregolari al simple past. Ecco alcuni esempi:

TO GO

He went to a club last night.

Did he go to the cinema last night?

He didn't go to bed early last night.

TO GIVE

We gave her a doll for her birthday.

They didn't give John their new address.

Did Barry give you my passport?

TO COME

My parents came to visit me last July.

We didn't come because it was raining.

Did he come to your party last week?

SIMPLE PAST  DI TO BE

I  was
You  were
He/She/It was
We were
You were
They were

Exercise
Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple
1. I ___________________ (walk) to work last week.
2. He ______________________ (study) computers for five years.
3. They _________________________ (arrive) late for the party.
4. We _______________________________ (marry) in a church.
5. It _______________________ (end) at 6 pm.
6. Ellen _________________ (wait) for an hour.
7. You ___________________ (like) the movie. I didn't.
8. Bob _____________________ (need) that book yesterday.
9. They ____________________ (use) my new pen.
10. The teacher ____________________________ (help) the students after class.

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An architect, painter and designer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was one of the great Italian sculptors of the 17th Century. His works pushed well beyond the conventional limits of sculpture, and were in harmony with the architecture and urban setting of the time, reflecting the Baroque period's tendency to meld all the arts together.

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You could write your crossword and the other resolve it

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1)Consign the crossword made at home (homework).

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Project the new topic.

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1)Read the text.                                                              (10')

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2) Translate the new words (new vocabulary-unknown words)                                                                              (10')

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3)Form small groups (of 4 maximum):
2 students can do a summary               and the others
2 can prepare questions.                                             (15')

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4)Speaking activity: a student asks and an other answers.(Talking about the topic)                                             (15')

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5)Homework: do a crossword about the topic.

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St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the centre of the crossing and directly under the dome of the basilica. Designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, it was intended to mark, in a monumental way, the place of Saint Peter's tomb underneath. Under its canopy is the high altar of the basilica. Commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, the work began in 1623 and ended in 1634. The baldachin acts as a visual focus within the basilica; it itself is a very large structure and forms a visual mediation between the enormous scale of the building and the human scale of the people officiating at the religious ceremonies at the papal altar beneath its canopy.
The form of the structure is an updating in Baroque style of the traditional ciborium or architectural pavilion found over the altars of many important churches, and ceremonial canopies used to frame the numinous or mark a sacred spot. Old St. Peter's Basilica had had a ciborium, like most major basilicas in Rome, and Bernini's predecessor, Carlo Maderno, had produced a design, also with twisted Solomonic columns, less than a decade before. It may more specifically allude to features drawn from the funerary catafalque and thus appropriate to Saint Peter, and from the traditional cloth canopy known as a baldacchino that was carried above the head of the pope on Holy Days and therefore related to the reigning pope as the successor of Saint Peter. The idea of the baldachin to mark Saint Peter's tomb was not Bernini's idea and there had been various columnar structures erected earlier. The old basilica had had a screen in front of the altar, supported by 2nd century Solomonic columns that had been brought "from Greece" by Constantine I (and which are indeed of Greek marble). These were by the Middle Ages believed to have come from the Temple of Jerusalem and had given the rare classical Solomonic form of helical column both its name and considerable prestige for the most sacred of sites. Eight of the original twelve columns are now found in pairs half way up the piers on either side of the baldachin.[4]