Tag Archives: literature

Nov 10 2017

Crime and the Law- related music, books, films and TV shows

If you want to increase your vocabulary to talk about crime and the law, you can listen to the songs on this playlist (or any others):

You can also watch any of these films:

  • Witness For The Prosecution (Billy Wilder 1957) [Good depiction of the British legal system, based on a play by Agatha Christie]

  • Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock 1954) [Alleged murder]

  • To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock 1955) [romance / thriller about a retired thief / cat burglar]

  • Take The Money and Run (Woody Allen 1969) [hilarious comedy about a petty thief who always gets caught]
  • A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner 1992) [courtroom drama about the US Marines in Guantanamo]

TV SHOWS:

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC 1969-1974)- They had many different sketches dealing with crimes and criminals, among which you can watch:

Blackadder Goes Forth (BBC 1989)- Court Martial

Sherlock (BBC 2010-2017). Excellent show. Can’t comment any more.

https://ororo.tv/en/shows/sherlock

Finally, Roald Dahl wrote several short stories for adults, some of which have to do with crimes. You may read “Lamb to the Slaughter“, for example, or “The Landlady“. You can also watch TV episodes based on the stories.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents- “Lamb to the Slaughter” (directed by Alfred Hitchcock, script by Roald Dahl based on his own short story):

Tales of the Unexpected (Anglia Television)- The Landlady (introduced by Roald Dahl):

Recent TV shows related to crime:

Big Little Lies (HBO):

13 Reasons Why (Netflix):

 

Jun 19 2017

project on literature- final products

If you want to have a look at all the final products out of our project on British and American literature, you can visit this google site:

https://sites.google.com/a/iesparquegoya.es/britishpg-literaturey1/home

 

 

Jun 3 2017

literary classics year 1: step 2- infographics about books

The next step in our project is to get to know the basic elements of the book in hand (genre, themes, plot summary, characters), and to be able to summarise them in an infographic. These are two of the examples made by students (click on the picture for full size):

 

Jun 2 2017

literary classics-year 1: plot summary

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe:

Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift:

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley:

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott:

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding:

Jun 1 2017

literary classics- year 1 project. Step 1: biography

The last project of the year has to do with literature. I wanted students to get to know a bit about canonical works of fiction in British and American literature. These are the novels we are working on:

  • Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.
  • Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
  • Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
  • Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
  • Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
  • Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter saga. (at one of my students’ insistence, and it’s a classic by now anyway, so…)

The first step in our literature project was to find out about the writers’ biographies. So, every group had to search for information to fill in a graphic organiser. I pre-selected some websites I wanted them to visit (to avoid Wikipedia), and I shared the links using QR codes for those groups using mobile devices, or shortened links to the only group who are using my laptop.

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Then, they had to explain their findings to the rest of the class using Explain Everything. Their explanation was recorded. You can find  two examples below:

May 26 2017

project 3rd term- literature: form

Please fill in this form to express your preferences about the project we’re going to start next week:

https://goo.gl/forms/81rSY1sRdMVMMPHL2