Monday, February 6, 2012

CHARLES DICKENS' ANNIVERSARY


Charles Dickens is one of the most famous English writers all over the world.
Today is February, 7th, the day when he was born. That is why today we celebrate his 200th birthday.
I am sure you know something about him or his famous novels. If not, your are going to learn more about him this week.


You can listen to more things about Charles Dickens' biography in this video:



You can find all his works HERE And this following video is about the films based on his novels. Do you know any of them?




Now it is time to surf the net and GET TO KNOW DICKENS and answer these questions about him.




If you want to listen to some of Dickens' books, you can click HERE

5 comments:

  1. this activity as difficult and a little boring

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  2. OK Ale, I see you don't like learning about literature very much... well, it doesn't matter... you did it anyway!!! I hope you learned something about Dickens!.
    Thanks for your comment!

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  3. yes I learned some things but I don't like one part.If I remember correctly he started working when he was 12 years old.He was very young.Was it normal at that time?
    he should be in school.

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  4. Hi Ale. Yes it was not strange at that time. Children worked in factories in very bad conditions, like Dickens had to. You are lucky today in Spain, you can't work so young, but in many countries they still do it!!!

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