Websites where you can locate unabridged texts for the English (and other subjects) class.
5. IRISH LITERATURE
Irish Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Fables
Read Irish fairy tales from the collections of Edmund Leamy, Jeremiah Curtin, William Henry Frost and others. Enjoy full list of Irish fairy tales now.
About: Irish folklore and fairy tales were passed down through generations with an almost superstitious commitment to accuracy. Storytellers would gather in the evenings to tell the same tale, and if any person varied, they would put it to the counsel to determine which was the correct version. In this way, stories were recited and transmitted for hundreds of years nearly word for word. A fantastic accomplishment, and a testament to the strength of Ireland’s belief in fairies, banshees, changelings and leprechauns.
Click here for this wonderful resource: https://fairytalez.com/region/irish/
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UNABRIDGED LITERARY TEXTS CLASSIFIED BY SCHOOL YEAR
Key: Narrative Poetry Drama
1st /2nd year ESO
● Two easy-to-read stories are The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse by Beatrix Potter and The Bogey Beast, retold by Flora Annie
Steel. These can be aimed at 1st/2nd ESO.
The Tale of Johnny
Town-Mouse by Beatrix Potter – A story about a country mouse’s
accidental visit to town that turns into a friendship.
The Bogey Beast, retold by Flora Annie Steel – A fairy tale about how
luck is all relative.
● The reverse poem used for the lesson plan was found
in the following website, where there are two more reverse poems: I Wish You’d Disappear and Loneliness
● George’s
Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Years ago, I read this book with my 1st-ESO
students in the British Bilingual Programme. The following website provides
lots of materials for teachers who work with Dahl’s texts.
A fantastic storytelling by the English comedian and
actor Rik Mayall was shown on CBBC in 1986 and it has been uploaded to YouTube:
● The Indian in
the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
I considered reading this low fantasy children’s novel
with my students in the British Bilingual Programme, as there is a film based
on it and I thought it could be a nice way to mix literature and cinema.
Recommended by Clara López:
● 1st ESO The Witches by Roald Dahl. 1st ESO Bilingual
● 2nd ESO Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Regarding Harry Potter Books, Marina del Barco shares her love for them:
I am a Harry Potter fan and I was super excited to see that some of the locations of the movies were in an activity of this course. I learn where to find a couple more of sites worth to visit, so I guess I owe Scotland another trip (at least).
My favourite one was The Elephant House Café which I discovered with no intention; it was also a blast to see Dumbledore's grave island in Loch Eilt.
Recommended by Sofía Suárez:
- 1st ESO The Witches, by Roald Dahl
Recommended by Beatriz González:
● 1st ESO The Brilliant World of Tom
Gates by Liz Pichon
● 2nd ESO Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The
Getaway by Jeff Kinney
Recommended by Elena Tsymbal:
● 1st / 2nd ESO Roger Hargreaves's Mr Men and Little Miss series, by Roger Hargreaves
● 2nd ESO The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde
Recommended by Almudena Sánchez:
● 1st ESO, bilingual students: “The Reader
of Books”, the first chapter of Matilda,
by Roald Dahl.
● 2nd ESO bilingual students: Some chapters of Wonder,
by R J Palacio.
Recommended by Mª del Camino Valbuena:
● 1st ESO All about Britain
● 2nd ESO All about the USA
Recommended by Marta Sánchez:
● 1st ESO OR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS- WORKING WITH RHYME AND SOUNDS.
CROCODILE
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every
golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little
fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
by Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
Recommended by Manuela Sánchez:
● 1st ESO A simple example can be a short poem from Winnie the Pooh, students from year 1 or 2 will enjoy repeating and changing vocabulary, while studying the weather.
The more it snows (Tiddely pom)
The more it goes (Tiddely pom)
The more it goes (Tiddely pom)
On snowing And nobody knows (Tiddely pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom)
Are growing
3rd /4th year ESO
Recommended by Almudena Sánchez:
● 3rd ESO, bilingual students: The short story “All summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury.
● 4th
year, bilingual students: The short story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, by Roald
Dahl.
● 4th year, bilingual students: Some extracts from Anne
Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
Recommended by Clara López:
● 3rd ESO Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah. 3rd ESO Bilingual
● 4th ESO Animal Farm by George Orwell
Recommended by Sofía Suárez:
- 3rd ESO Holes, by Louis Sachar
- 4th ESO Noughts and Crosses, by Malorie Blackman
Recommended by Beatriz González:
● 3rd ESO Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
● 4th ESO The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time by Mark Haddon
Recommended by Beatriz González:
●The secret diary of
Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend, a
Mandarin paperback.
Recommended by Celia Ruiz:
● 3rd ESO Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by JK Rowling
● 4th ESO Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Recommended by Isaac Nebot:
● David Walliams’s
The Boy in the Dress, Harper
Collins, 2008. (4th ESO bilingual)
● Reinhardt
Jung, Bambert’s Book of Missing
Stories, Egmont, 2008. (4th
ESO bilingual)
● David
Walliams’s The Midnight Gang,
Harper Collins 2018 (4th ESO bilingual)
Recommended by Mª del Camino Valbuena:
● 1rd ESO All about Ireland
● Pygmalion,G.B.Shaw,ed L.W.Conolly,Bloomsbury publishing,2015
Recommended by Elena Tsymbal:
● 3rd ESO Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle
● 3rd ESO Alice in Wonderland, by
Lewis Carroll
Intermediate level:
Ø The Name of the Star by
Maureen Johnson
Ø The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Ø Just As Long As We’re Together by
Judy Blume
Recommended by Marta Sánchez:
● 3rd ESO /4th ESO. EXPRESSING FEELINGS
Recommended by Marta Sánchez:
● 3rd ESO /4th ESO. EXPRESSING FEELINGS
AFTER LOVE by Sara Teasdale
Here is no magic any more,
We meet as other people do,
You work no miracle for me
Nor I for you.
You were the wind and I the sea—
There is no splendor any more,
I have grown listless as the pool
Beside the shore.
But though the pool is safe from storm
And from the tide has found
surcease,
It grows more bitter than the sea,
For all its peace.
● 3rd ESO: AN APPROACH TO SHAKESPEARE´S PLAYS
FILM: TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU. It is a film based on the play The Taming of the Shrew by
Shakespeare.
Link for the full movie.
( https://youtu.be/jyU1582c9WU)
Scene when a poem is read. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=gGV4hxhxW8o
● 4th ESO. MAKING ONE´S DIARY
The growing pains of Adrian Mole, by Sue Townsend.
- Capítulos: Sunday July the fourth, Fourth after Trinity and American Independence Day.
LINK: https://www.mocagh.org/rainbird/adrianmole2-alt-book.pdf
- Capítulos: Sunday July the fourth, Fourth after Trinity and American Independence Day.
LINK: https://www.mocagh.org/rainbird/adrianmole2-alt-book.pdf
(pages: 30,31)
Recommended by Gloria Maté:
● Shakespearean Monologues for
Teens
A Midsummer Night's Dream Monologues
TEXTS for DRAMA
“My mistress with a monster is in love” - Puck
A Midsummer Night's Dream, III, ii (comedy, male or female, for a strong actor)
“A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia“- Lysander,'A
Midsummer Night's Dream', I, i (comedy, male)
“How happy some o'er other some can be!” - Helena,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, I, i (comedy, female, 15 - 23)
“These are the forgeries of jealousy“ (includes video)- Titania,'A
Midsummer Night's Dream', II, 1 (comedy, female)
“If we shadows have offended“ (includes video)- Puck,'A
Midsummer Night's Dream', V, 1 (comedy, male or female)
Romeo and Juliet
Monologues
“But Soft; what light from
yonder window breaks?“ (includes video)- Romeo,'Romeo and
Juliet', II, ii (tragedy, male)
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefor art
thou Romeo?“ (includes video)- Juliet,'Romeo and Juliet', II, ii (tragedy,
female)
“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds” (includes
video)- Juliet,
'Romeo and Juliet', III, ii (tragedy, female)
“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with
you.” - Mercutio, 'Romeo and Juliet', I, iv (tragedy, male)
“Shall I speak ill of him that
is my husband?“- Juliet,'Romeo and Juliet', III, ii (tragedy, female)
“The clock struck nine“
(includes video)- Juliet,'Romeo and Juliet', II, v (tragedy, female)
Hamlet Monologues
“To be or not to be.” - Hamlet-To
be or not to be, III, i (tragedy, male, for a strong actor)
“Oh what a noble mind.” - Ophelia-Oh
what a noble mind, III, i (tragedy, female, for a strong actor)
“For
Hamlet and the trifling of his favor.” - Laertes I, iii
(tragedy,male)
Other
Shakespearean Monologues
“I left no ring with her. What means this lady?” - Viola,
Twelfth Night, II, ii (comedy, female, 15 - 23)
“As young as I am, I have observed these three
swashers.” - Boy
Henry V, III, ii (tragedy, male 15 yrs and under)
“All hail, great master!” - Ariel
The Tempest, I, ii (comedy, male or female, for a strong actor)
AIMED YEARS
4th YEAR
(SECONDARY EDUCATION) AND UP (Bachillerato)
ACTIVITIES
1.- Put
forward the list and let them choose one to perform
2.-
A.-Distribute monologues in groups and let each group choose one
B.-Perform them thoughout the school year
1st /2nd year Bachillerato
Recommended by Celia Ruiz:
- The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
In the second term students are asked to choose an unabridged book of their liking from the school library (the teacher gives advice and recommendations according to their particular preferences)
Recommended by Julio Marinas:
● Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
● Fungi From Yuggoth by Howard Phillips Lovecraft,
if someone likes horror poetry.
● Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. It is
very advisable to listen to it sung by Bryan Ferry.
Recommended by Clara López:
● The House On Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros
Recommended by Francisco Edua Robles
Poems:
Novels:
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
1984 – George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D.
Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora
Neale Hurston
Hound of the Baskervilles – Doyle, Arthur C.
The Canterville Ghost – Oscar Wilde
Treasure Island – Stevenson, Robert Louis
Recommended by Juan Luis Pérez:
● The Great Gatsby ,F.Scott Fitzgerald,Wordsworth Classics 1993.
Recommended by Isaac Nebot:
● Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Puffin Modern Classics, 2010. http://prezi.com/xbyk8zknf5fy/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
● David Walliams’s The Ice Monster, Harper Collins, 2018
● Antoine de Saint – Exupéry’s The Little Prince, Egmont, 2017 (translated by Katherine Woods)
Recommended by Mª del Camino Valbuena:
Recommended by Beatriz González:
● 1st Bachillerato The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
● 2nd Bachillerato The Invisible
Guardian by Dolores Redondo. (I must say that The Invisible Guardian was
quite hard for the students to understand.)
Recommended by Elena Tsymbal:
Intermediate level:
Ø The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Ø The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Ø Just As Long As We’re Together by Judy Blume
Recommended by Mª Victoria de Lera:
● Poem: “My papa’s waltz” by Theodore Roethke
Recommended by Encarna Hernández:
● Poem: Stop all the clocks, by W.H. Auden, when talking about death, or illnesses, or even homosexuality. It is a very easy poem for them and they like watching the movie “Four weddings and a funeral” where they can listen to the poem read in front of the coffin and feel the pain and anger that the reader feels.
Recommended by Encarna Hernández:
● In final stages (4th ESO and some lucky
years in 1st & 2nd Bachillerato) they’ve been able to
continue with advanced English so they had to read original books for a Book
Review Questionnaire + test. This has brought up an interest in reading
voluntary books which were asked to be original series too!
-
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
-
For Whom The Bell Tolls by E. Hemingway
-
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
-
Animal Farm by George Orwell
● If we had to mention poetry Walt Whitman (Leaves of
Grass) was one of the most common choices together with new ones like Welsh
author Owen Sheers (Not Yet My Mother), for instance.
Recommended by Marta Sánchez:
● 2nd Bachillerato And there were none, by Agatha
Christie. FEMINISM AND MALE CHAUVINISM THROUGH THE CHARACTERS.
IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking
carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a
cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times. He
laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. They were running now
through Somerset. He glanced at his watch-another two hours to go. He went over
in his mind all that had appeared in the papers about Indian Island. There had
been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about
yachting-and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this
little island off the Devon coast. The unfortunate fact that the new third wife
of the American millionaire was a bad sailor had led to the subsequent putting
up of the house and island for sale. Various glowing advertisements of it had
appeared in the papers. Then came the first bald statement that it had been
bought-by a Mr. Owen. After that the rurnours of the gossip writers had
started. Indian Island had really been bought by Miss Gabrielle Turl, the
Hollywood film star! She wanted to spend some months there free from all
publicity! Busy Bee had hinted delicately that it was to be an abode for
Royalty??! Mr. Merryweather had had it whispered to him that it had been bought
for a honeymoon-Young Lord L-- had surrendered to Cupid at last! Jonas knew for
a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out
some very hush hush experiments! Definitely, Indian Island was news! From his
pocket Mr. Justice Wargrave drew out a letter. The handwriting was practically
illegible but words here and there stood out with unexpected clarity. Dearest
Lawrence . . . such years since I heard anything of you . . . must come to
Indian Island . . . the most enchanting place . . . so much to talk over . . .
old days . . . communion with Nature . . . bask in sunshine . . . 12.40 from
Paddington . . . meet you at Oakbridge . . . and his correspondent signed
herself with a flourish his ever Constance Culmington. Mr. Justice Wargrave
cast back in his mind to remember when exactly he had last seen Lady Constance
Culmington. It must be seven -no, eight years ago. She had then been going to
Italy to bask in the sun and be at one with Nature and the contaditd. Later, he
had heard, she had proceeded to Syria where she proposed to bask in yet
stronger sun and live at one with Nature and the bedouin. Constance Culmington,
he reflected to himself, was exactly the sort of woman who would buy an island
and surround herself with mystery! Nodding his head in gentle approval of his
logic, Mr. Justice Wargrave allowed his head to nod. He slept. . . .
Recommended by Manuela Sánchez:
● 1st/2nd Bachillerato: Two poems just to introduce a topic or to celebrate special days.
On father´s day:
Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
To describe things we love
The first Fig, by Edna St Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Recommended by Mª Victoria de Lera:
● 1st Bachillerato: The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas by John Boyne.
Practice for Chapters One to Five
1.Why is Maria packing Bruno’s things? (page 3)
2.What matters most
to Bruno in Berlin? (page
3.Who first called
the new home ‘Out-With’ and why did they do that? (page 24)
4.In chapter four,
Bruno states his age. How else do you know Bruno is young?
5.Why does Mother
feel they should never have let the Fury come to dinner? (page 40)
6.Why was Mother so
startled by Maria’s sudden appearance? (page 40)
7.While Bruno is at
the train station, he notices two trains separated by a platform. What is the
author’s purpose for including this description? How does Bruno feel about the
trains? (page 41)
8.How does Father’s
office compare with the rest of the house? (page 45)
9.What is Bruno’s
relationship like with his Father? (page 46)
10.According to
Bruno’s reasoning, why was his father assigned to work at Out-With? (page 50)
Chapters Six to Ten
1.How does Maria
respond to Bruno’s question about living at the new house? (page 58)
2.Why does Maria
defend Father? (page 60)
3.Why was Bruno proud
of his Father after hearing Maria’s story? (page 62)
4.What is Maria’s
advice to Bruno after their talk? (page 64)
5.How does Mother
prove she is a decent person? (page 68)
6.What does
Lieutenant Kotler do to make Gretel and Bruno uncomfortable? (page 75-76)
7.What happened to
Bruno on the tire swing? Who rescues him? (page 78-79)
8.Why does Mother say
she’ll take credit for mending injury? (page 85)
9.How are appearances
important? (page 91)
10.What do Bruno and
Shmuel have in common? (page 109)
Chapters Eleven to Fifteen
1.According to Bruno,
why was the Fury rude? (page 122)
2.Why does Bruno
decide not to share the news about his new friend with his family? (page 133)
3.What is Maria’s
religion? How do you know? (page 137)
4.Describe Bruno’s
personality? How does he change from the beginning of the story to this point?
5.Why does Mother ask
Bruno to not use the word ‘hate’? (page 143)
6.Why does Bruno want Shmuel to crawl under the fence? (page 150)
7.Why does Bruno try
to conceal mentioning Shmuel to his sister? (page 154)
8.What were some of
Bruno’s reasons for not liking Lieutenant Kotler? (page 162-163)
9.Why didn’t Bruno
speak up to defend Shmuel? (page 171)
10.What does Bruno
say that finally wins Shmuel’s acceptance? How does Shmuel show he forgives his
friend? (page 175)
Chapters Sixteen to Twenty
1.Why does Bruno return to Berlin? (page 176)
2-Why was Father sad?
(page 177)
3.Why would
Grandmother be upset about the wreath from the Fury? (page 177)
4.For Bruno, what is
the best thing about life at Out-With? (page 178)
5.What was wrong with
Gretel and Bruno’s hair? (page 184)
6.What does Gretel
miss about life in Berlin? (page 189)
7.What news does
Bruno have for Shmuel? (page 194)
8.How do Bruno and
Shmuel plan to play together? (page 199)
9.How does the
uniform Shmuel provides remind Bruno of his Grandmother? (page 205)
Recommended by Miguel Herrero:
-
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl.
-
B.F.G, Ronald Dhal
-
The Gold Bug, Edgar
Allan Poe
These three books would be suitable for students with
a good level of English, either in a bilingual class or not. In some cases,
they can read the whole book (during a whole term), especially in upper courses
(Bachillerato), or they can practice some excerpts taken from different
passages, if we are dealing with students in the first courses of ESO. If they
like reading, they won’t have any problem. Besides, they can watch movies
related to the books and check their understanding, especially in the case of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
In the case of Poe, they can link this story to some
others published by this author and so check the main aspects about which Poe
used to write and also the kind of vocabulary he normally used to develop his
stories.
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