CHARLES DICKENS 

WHO WAS CHARLES DICKENS?

Charles Dickens was a Brithis novelist, journalist, editor , illustrator and social comentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twits, A chistmas Carol, Great Exprectations,....

His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

BIOGRAPHY 

Dickens was born on February 7,1812, in Portsmouth, on the souther coats os England.

The famed author was the second of eight children.His father, Jhon Dickens, has a navel clerk who dreamed of strinking it rich.Charles´mother, Elizabeth Barrow, aspired to be a teacher and school director.Depited his parents best efforts, the family remained poor. 

He started school at 9 years old, but Charles had to leave it due to family problems and started working at the age of 12 years.

Years later he went back to study, to work as a journalist, His first article was writting in 1833.Dickens wrote works that other drew and rose to fame as a novelist.

He died on July 9,1870 in Gads.

He was the creator of some of the best known fictional characters in the world.

Many consider him the best novelist of his time.

CHARLES DIKENS´ BOOKS 

A Christmas Carol-1843

Oliver Twist-1838

David Copperfield -1850

The live of our lord-1834

Martin Chuzzlewit-1844

Dickens´ works-1867                                                                

Banaby Rudge-1851

A Child´s history of England-1851

The Mudfog papers-1837

These are some of his novels, but he has mauch more. 

VICTORIAN ERA 

Charles Dickens was a writer of the victorian era.The Victorian Era in Britain was dominated by the reing of Queen Victoria.Although it was a paceful and prosperous time,there were still issues within the society was optimistic, they hope in tecnology and the improvement in the quality of live.

London changed more than at any other time in history.

SOCIETY 

The social classes of this era included the Upper class , the Middle class and the Working class.

UPPER CLASS

This class divided into three subcategories:

-Royal-those who came from a royal family 

-Middle Upper-important officers and lords 

-Lower Upper-wealthy men and business owners

The withe collar professions had the hability to move up in the corporate rankings and earn a higher salary.

MIDDLE CLASS 

Was also divided into two categories, higher level and lower level.The middle class dictated tastes ans imposed behaviors.

WORKING CLASS

Considerated of unsliked laborers who worked in brutal and unsanitary conditions.They didn´t has access to clean water,food, education fot their children, proper clothing and often they lived on the streets.

CHILD LABOR DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA 

Children took on hard-working jobs as a coal miners,chimeney sweepers,farm workers and domestic servants.Some children were even forced to take on the role of a railroad worked due to the invention of the Railway brought by the Industrial Revulution.

Children were required to work 12 to 18 hours a day in miners that were infested  with rats and had poor ventilation.

 

WOMEN AT VICTORIAN ERA 

Women were meant only desire marriage in that it allowed them to became mothers reather than for any emotional sarisfction.

Girls typically married in their early to mid 20s to a groom around 5 years older than them in order to reinforce the "natural" hierarchy between the sexes.

After a woman married, her rights and propietary case to remaind her own.

PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS 

THE TITANIC SINKS 

IN CLASS WE READ A TEXT ABOUT THE TITANIC SINKS. I LIKE THE HISTORY A LOT AND I LEARND MORE ABOUT THE TITANIC

 

 CHARLES DICKENS PROJECT 

THIS TERM THE PROJECT IS ABOUT CHARLES DICKENS,WHEN I FINISH THE PROYECT I´M GOING TO PUT IN MY BLOG.

GLOSARY A CHRISTMAS CAROL 

CHAPTERS 9-10

MEDICINE-SOMETHING YOU DRINK WHEN YOU FEEL SICK

DIRTY SHEET-NOT CLEAN CLOTHES OF THE BEDS 

GRAVE-WHERE THE DEAD PEOPLE ARE BURIED 

TRIES-WHEN YOU ATTEND SOMETHING ONE, TWO ,... TIMES  

CHAPTER 11-12 

ALIVE-YOU ARE LIVE 

BUTCHER´S SHOP-WHERE YOU BUY MEAT

KNOKS-WHEN YOU MAKE A NOYSE TO SOMEONE SAYS YOU 

AT THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE 

EXPRESIONS

 

I LOST MY....(YESTREDAY)

I LEFT MY....ON THE.....

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

IT´S QUITE BIG....

WHAT´S MADE OF?

IT´S MADE OF...

WHAT BRAND IS IT?

IT´S A.....ONE 

IS IT ANY OF THESE?

YES, THIS IS/THAT´S IT!

                                                                                                   

GLOSARY A CHRISTMAS CAROL

CHAPTERS 7-8

 GOD BLESS-RELIGIUS PHRASE 

CRUTCHES-IS AN OBJECT TO HELP WALKING 

WEAK-WHEN YOU HAVEN´T GOT STRENGTH 

MEAN-WHEN SOMEONE DOESN´T LIKE TO SPEND MONEY 

POORHOUSE-IS WHERE THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE 

PATIENCE-HUMAN CAPACITY 

GLOSARY UNIT 2 

MATERIALS

WOOL                     SILVER                   CARDBOARD         PLASTIC 

LEATHER               RUBBER                 GLASS                     WOOD 

GLASS                    CERAMIC               METAL 

GOLD                        COTTON                 PAPER 

EXTRA VOCABULARY 

COINS-SOMETHIG TO PAY 

FIELD-WHERE THE ANIMALS EAT 

STOMACH-IS A PART OF YOUR BODY  

TOOL-IS SOMETHING TO REPARE BROKE THINGS 

WRECK-WHEN A BOAT GO DOWN 

 PAST CONTINUOUS 

COVID VOCABULARY 

TAKE THE TEMPERATURE 

ISOLATION 

TAKE OFF THE MASK 

ENDAGNER 

SYMPTOMS 

WHITE COAT

BROTHER/ANNS/TROUBLE/DISTURB 

GLOSARY A CHRISTMAS CAROL

CHAPTERS 3-4

ROBE-IS A WHITE DRESS OR COAT 

WAREHOUSE-IS A ROOM IN YOU KEEP THIGS LIKE PICTURES,...

GUESTS-PEOPLE WHO GO TO A PARTY OR GO TO YOUR HOUSE TO HAVE DINNER,..

CHAPTER 5-6

NIGHTCAP-IS A CLOTE YOU PUT ON YOUR HEAD BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP

TURKEY-IS AN ANIMAL AND IN USA DINNER THIS ON CHRISMAS 

 WAS/WERE 

I WAS

YOU WERE

HE/SHE/IT WAS

WE WERE

YOU WERE

THEY WERE

WASN´T/WEREN´T

I WASN´T

YOU WEREN´T

HE/SHE/IT WASN´T

WE WEREN´T 

YOU WEREN´T

THEY WEREN´T

GLOSARY A CHRISTMAS CAROL 

CHAPTERS 1-2 

CHRISTMAS EVE-THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS DAY 

WASTE-WHEN YOU LOST SOMETHING 

PARTNER-PEOPLE WHO GO WITH YOU (CLASS,WORK,..)

CLERK -PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR YOU

NEPHEW-THE SON OF YOUR BROTHER/SISTER

STRIKING-WHEN THE CLOCK RINGS AT ONE HOUR

 A CHISTMAS CAROL 📕

 GLOSARY UNITE 1 

EXTRA VOCABULARY: 

SICK -WHEN YOU DIDN´T FEEL GOOD                       

 MOOD-YOUR FEELINGS 

THIRSTY -YOU NEED TO DRINK WATER                

 SLEEPY-WHEN YOU ARE TIRED 

PAVEMENT -PLACE WHERE THE PEOPLE WALK            

BENEFITS-POSITIVE THIGS 

OPOSITE ADJETIVE:

BEGIN-FINISH

FIND-LOSE 

REMEMBER-FORGET

GIVE-TAKE 

DROP-PICK UP 

FEELING ANGETIVES:

TIRED-WHEN YOU NEED TO SLEEP

ANGRY-WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD 

SURPRISED-WHEN YOU ARE HAPPY AND EXITED AT THE SAME TIME 

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