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Welcome, everyone! Soy profesora de inglés en un instituto de Madrid y me encanta dar clase. Por este motivo, también busco nuevas maneras y recursos para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza - aprendizaje.
Mi propósito con esta web de recursos es, poco a poco, recopilar todo aquello que me he ido encontrando por el camino y que pueda ser interesante para usar en clase. De esta manera, podréis encontrar en esta web una serie de materiales para distintos niveles de inglés que creo pueden ser interesantes. ¡Espero que os sea tan útil como a mí!
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Famous Writers
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1 Charles Dickens (Portsmouth, 1812 – London, 1870) is considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era. His family had some money problems so, as a teenager, he had to spend some time working in a factory. This experience would be crucial for his own personality and his work. His writings can be humorous, but also very critical and hard, portraying many dramatic aspects of 19th century society, such as poverty and hunger. “Oliver Twist,” “A Christmas Carol” and “David Copperfield” are some of his famous works. -
2 Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 – Baltimore, 1849) was an American writer, known for his dark poems and tales. He had a very difficult life since he was very young, and this can be seen in his works, which are mainly horror or dark tales, with mystery and tortured characters full of fears. That is why he is considered the father of the detective story. Some examples of his writings are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven” and “The Black Cat.” -
3 Mary Ann Evans (Warwickshire, 1819- Chelsea, 1880) was a very relevant English writer from the Victorian period. She was known as Geroge Eliot, which was her pen name, because at that time, women were not supposed to be writers. She wrote about the different classes in the English countryside, depicting their lives with detail and realism. Her most famous novel is “Middlemarch.” -
4 Jane Austen (Hampshire, 1775 - 1817) was a famous English novelist. She wrote many famous novels, like "Pride & Prejudice," "Sense & Sensibility" and "Emma." Her novels dealt with everyday life within the house, using reality and humor. Since women were not supposed to write at that time, she wrote anonymously. -
5 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Surrey, 1832 – 1898) was an English mathematician, inventor and writer. He is known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, and he is most famous for his book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel, “Through the Looking-Glass,” full of absurd and incredible stories that have conquered readers of all ages and times. However, he wrote many other things, included several mathematical works. He also invented many things, like the game Scrabble. -
6 Mary Shelley (London, 1797-1851) was an English Romantic writer. Her father was a political philosopher and her mother was a philosopher and feminist writer. She is the author of the world-renowned gothic novel "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus" (1818), which is considered to be an early example of science fiction. -
7 Virginia Woolf (London, 1882 – Lewes, 1941) was one of the most important modernist English writers. Although she had many emotional problems, she became a relevant professional writer. She is famous because she used the stream-of-consciousness in her writing, a technique in which what is written is what is in the characters’ minds. She wrote about the role of women (she was a strong feminist) and about the war and its traumas. Some of her works are “Mrs. Dalloway,” “The Waves” and “To the Lighthouse.” -
8 William Shakespeare (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1564 – 1616), actor, playwright and poet and, is considered by many people the most relevant and influential writer of the English language, not only for his work, but also because he added many words and expressions to the English language. He was part of an acting company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men (at that time, women’s roles in plays were performed by men, since women were not allowed to act) and acted at a theatre called The Globe. He wrote 37 plays (tragedy, comedy and historical), such as "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Macbeth" or "A Midsummer Night’s Dream."
