Yep! One of the best known British writers of all times is turning 200 this year. Exactly on?February 7, 1812, ?Charles?Dickens was born in Portsmouth and he had no easy childhood. His family went bankrupt and his father sent to prison, reason why he had?to work in a factory at a very young age. Not much later he started working as a journalist and he gained great success with his first novel the The Pickwick Papers at the age of 24.
If you want to know more ( for you or your students) the BBC has a 4-minutes cartoon with a summary of his life, you can also find a brief reference to his work and life on OUP Bibliographies.
I personally think that Dickens is a great author to use in class, not only for reading purposes, but also because the amount of class resources we can find on-line ?? to work almost anything. And what a perfect?opportunity to bring it into the classroom by?celebrating his bicentenary!
From drama activities to work vocabulary, pronunciation and even creative writing and?speaking, to games about the author?s life and literary work or Victorian society. Today, we want ?to recommend two of them:
If you know any other please add a comment with the link and your opinion.
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Source: http://cosasqueencuentroparaclase.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/happy-birthday-citizen-dickens/
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