Charles Dickens

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Introduction

What explains Dickens' popularity? What makes him so attractive to biographers and readers? Why has his work been adapted for TV and film more often than that of any other novelist? And why was it Dickens who won lasting fame, rather than one of his now forgotten contemporaries? In the year of Dickens’s bicentenary you are going to help other students learn about this writer

Task
Prepare an oral presentation explaining one of these points:

1. Biography and works.
2. Historical context.
3. Dickens in the films and on TV.
4. Other contemporary writers.

Process

1.Selection of groups:

a. Eva, Trini, Óscar (1).
b. Marta, Juanjo, Ismael (2)
c. Carmen, Judit, Lorena (3)
d. José A., A. Belén, Sergio (4)

Assessment

For the assessment download the document from one of the links.

Conclusion

Classical Literature deals with universal worries that's why Dickens can be interesting to a 21st century reader.

Credits

http://poster.4teachers.org/
All the web pages metioned in the links. The teachers of English and students at IES Jardín de Málaga.