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mercoledì 24 novembre 2010

Terza classe

A site to improve and practise your English http://www.adelescorner.org/ ....................................................................................................................................................................
 VOCABULARY -CLOTHING
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/clothing_vocabulary.php
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GRAMMAR
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Start with this Spanish site here you'll practise listening comprehension, there are three levels of difficulty and some  tests with online answers http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omlisten/contenidotematico.htm After you'll learn about culture here Listening article about hamburger Article about the origins of weekend .....................................................................
A story: Gelert

 HISTORY http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/homework/history/index.html BEOWULF
The Anglo-Saxons and Beowulf
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The development of the English language
Development of the English language
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF HISTORY GAMES http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/ The Romans


Canterbury http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/facts.html  CHAUCER------A WEBQUEST http://homepage.mac.com/mrehling/projects/chaucer/chaucerquest.htm

The Prioress' Prologue and Tale

https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/pri-par.htm#PROLOGUE

Tudor Links Activities

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/tudors.html  http://tudorhistory.org/  https://sites.google.com/a/northgwinnett.com/mirabal/unit-10-the-tudor-stuart-dynasties-of-england

Activities

 http://www.floridatechnet.org/ahs/curriculum/history/2%20Learning%20Activities/Session%2016.pdf .....................................................................................

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

William Shakespeare is considered England's most famous playwright. He is also known as "The Bard." Shakespeare was born in Stratford Upon Avon in Warwickshire. He moved to London and became an actor, poet and playwright. He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 and they had a daughter named Susanna and later twins named Hamnet and Judith.

Sonnets

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section2.rhtml

The Play:


Hamlet (1601)
  • Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His father has recently died. His mother Gertrude has married his father's brother, Claudius.
  • The ghost of Hamlet's father appears in the castle. He tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him. He instructs Hamlet to revenge his death by killing Claudius.
  • Hamlet tells his friends that he may appear to behave strangely, but he is only pretending to be mad.
  • Hamlet behaves unkindly to his girlfriend Ophelia.
  • A group of actors arrive at the castle and Hamlet arranges for them to act out the murder of his father. When he sees the shock on Claudius' face, he knows that he really did kill his father.
  • He finds Claudius praying and decides not to kill him then, because he wishes him to die in a state of sin (and therefore go to Hell).
  • He confronts his mother about her hasty marriage to her dead husband's brother and while they are talking he sees someone moving behind a curtain, believing it to be Claudius, he stabs the figure, but he accidentally kills Polonius, Ophelia's father.
  • Ophelia goes mad and drowns herself.
  • Laertes, Polonius' son, arrives at the castle. Hearing that Hamlet has stabbed his father and driven his sister to suicide he challenges him to a duel.
  • To ensure that Laertes kills Hamlet, Claudius puts poison on the tip of Laertes sword and adds poison to his drink.
  • Gertrude accidentally drinks the poison, Hamlet (finally) stabs Claudius and Laertes and Hamlet stab each other.

Important Words:

Acts:
Shakespeare's plays are divided into 5 ACTS. An ACT is simply a part of a play.

Scenes:
Acts are divided into SCENES. A scene is a continuous portion of the play in which the location does not change.

Soliloquy:
SOLILOQUIES are speeches delivered to the audience. They are the true thoughts of the person speaking, they are a way for the audience to see inside the character's head. Watch one of Hamlet's soliloquies below, in this scene, Hamlet is contemplating suicide: Act 3, Scene 1 HAMLET : To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn away, And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd. ..........................................................................................................
How to study Hamlet
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/hamlet.html ------------------------------------------------------------
A modern way to study Shakespeare
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