TRIVIA GAME

Files: past simple of 'be'; the plural; some and any; prepositions on-in-at; time and date; possessive adjectives; describing people; the seasons.
Internet Project: Edgar Allan Poe, life and work.

Team A
File
Write in the past and use the singular: 'There are some shelves in the rooms'
General Knowlege
What's the season in which we celebrate Halloween? (BrE and AmE)
Internet Project
What's the black cat's name?
a) Pluto b) Bruto c) Luto
Team B
File
Complete with a preposition: The party is ..... November, ..... Friday, ...... 6 o'clock.
General Knowlege
Which national team does Messi play for?
Internet Project
Where and when was Edgar Allan Poe born?
a) New York, 5th October 1849 b) Boston, 19th January 1809 c) London, 19th January 1819
Team A
File
Complete with a possessive adjective: What's your brother's name? ..... name is Brais.
General Knowledge
Which are the spring months?
Internet Project
Apart from being a writer, what was Edgar Allan Poe's job?
a) captain in the Army b) barman c) journalist
Team B
File
Put into the interrogative form: There were some pencils in the bag.
General knowledge
What time is 'tea time'?
Internet Project
The Simpsons based an episode on a poem by Allan Poe, What's the title of the poem?
a) The Craw b) The Raven c) The Sparrow
Team A
File
Complete the description: The man is short and ....., he is about ..... and he's wearing a...... and .....
General Knowledge
Say in which film you can dance 'La vida loca'
Internet Project
What colour is the bug in the tale by Poe?
a) gold b) silver c) black
Team B
File
Complete with a possessive adjective: John and Ann have a new car. This is ....... new car!
General Knowledge
What's Hanna Montana's real name?
Internet Project
The Tell-tale Heart: what's the old man's part of the body which the writer hates?
a) his teeth b) his heart c) his eye
Team A
File
Correct the sentence: I born in August 28th at a half past three on the morning.
General Knowledge
Who sings "You can stand under my umbrella"?
Internet Project
What is 'Amontillado' in Poe's tale?
a) a barrel b) a wine c) a cave
Team B
File
What time is it? 12.00 and 24.00
General knowledge
What is 'The Union Jack'?
Internet Project
How many tales and novels did Edgar Allan Poe write?
a) 67 tales and one novel b) 67 novels and 10 tales c) 67 tales and no novels

THE RAVEN by the Simpsons

THE RAVEN by The Simpsons. Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,

weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of

forgotten lore

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there

came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my

chamber door

"Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my

chamber door

Only this and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak

December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost

upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought

to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for

the lost Lenore

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels

name Lenore

Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each

purple curtain

Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors

never felt before;

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I

stood repeating

''Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my

chamber door

This it is and nothing more.

" Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no

longer,

"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness

I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you

came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my

chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you"-here I

opened wide the door;

Darkness there and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within

me burning,

Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than

before.

"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my

window lattice;

Let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery

explore

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a

flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days

of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute

stopped or stayed he;

But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my

chamber door

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said,

"art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from

the Nightly shore

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's

Plutonian shore!

" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed

by an unseen censer

Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the

tufted floor.

"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee-by

these angels he hath sent thee

Respite-respite and nepenthe from thy memories
of Lenore;

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this

lost Lenore!"

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore,"

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I

shrieked, upstarting

"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's

Plutonian shore!

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy

soul hath spoken'

Leave my loneliness unbroken !--quit the bust

above my door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door''

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore,"

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber
door;
And this eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s
that is dreaming;
And the lamp-light over him streaming throws his
shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor

shall be lifted-nevermore!

EL GATO NEGRO. RESUMEN

EL GATO NEGRO. RESUMEN

( The Black Cat)

By Camila Lucía Chavez, Paula Sastre, Sivia Daniela Fuentes.

Esta es la horrible historia de un hombre, su mujer y su gato.

Este hombre siempre había sido bueno, respetuoso con la naturaleza y amante de los animales. Estaba casado, quería a su mujer y sentía un especial cariño por su gato, al que llamaban Pluto.

Pluto era un gato grande, negro y muy cariñoso que acompañaba a su amo a todas partes. Pero poco a poco el carácter del hombre fue cambiando por culpa del alcohol. Se enfadaba por todo y se convirtió en un ser cruel. Tan cruel que un día cogió a Pluto y con un objeto punzante le quitó un ojo. Él sabía que su comportamiento era horrible y tenía remordimientos por lo que había hecho, sin embargo hacía maldades por hacer el mal y no lo podía evitar. Otro día irritado por la presencia de su gato negro sin un ojo lo cogió y lo ahorcó. Ese mismo día se incendió su casa y en la única pared que quedó en pié apareció como dibujada la figura negra del gato. Pasaron los días y el hombre pareció recobrar el buen sentido, hasta que encontró a otro gato y se lo llevó a su casa. Este gato también era grande y le faltaba un ojo pero no era totalmente negro: en su pecho tenía una gran mancha blanca. Al principio todo iba bien, pero finalmente comenzó a odiar a este otro gato que tanto le recordaba a Pluto. Al final de la historia, en un ataque de rabia y odio intentó matarlo con un hacha pero su mujer se metió en el medio y el hacha fue a parar a su cabeza matándola. Ocultó el cuerpo en el sótano dentro de una pared de ladrillos. De repente el gato desapareció. Pasaron cuatro días sin saber nada del gato. Pero llegó la policía, quien descubrió el cuerpo emparedado de la mujer ya que tras los ladrillos se oía na voz, un quejido o algo así. Allí, con la mujer, estaba el gran gato negro sin su ojo!

EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE SIMPSONS: The Raven

By Alex Vila

THE RAVEN (Third episode of the second season belonged to the first of a series of Halloween themed episodes: Treehouse of Horror)

It’s Halloween and Lisa starts reading The Raven, one of the most famous poems by Allan Poe. Bart is the raven, Maggie and Lisa are the seraphims, Marge is the portrait of Lenore and Homer is the poet. NEVER MORE!

EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE SIMPSONS: The tell-tale head

By Ana Cabido

THE TELL-TALE HEAD. (Eighth episode of the first season)
Bart wants to be popular and he thinks that if he cuts Jebediah Springfield statue’s head the other children will admire him. He cuts the head with a hacksaw and hides it downstairs in the kitchen. Bart starts getting nervous when he sees how angry everybody in his family and in the village is with this event. Bart’s guilty conscience talks to him in the form of Jebediah’s voice. He finally confesses.

EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE SIMPSONS: Lisa's rival

By Lydia Feijóo

LISA’S RIVAL ( Second episode of the sixth season)
Allison Taylor is a new pupil in Lisa’s class. She is very intelligent and, like Lisa, she can play the saxophone. They become friends but the annual diorama competition is coming and Lisa wants to win. She asks Bart for help and he decides to replace Allison’s diorama of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. Lisa will feel very guilty.

By Iñigo Simón, Luís Pérez, Maeloc Valdés and Victor Pulido.

Muchos son los escritores que han adoptado el estilo y temática de Poe y muchas las películas, series de televisión y videos que se han inspirado en su obra.
Si queréis un resumen corto de The Telltale Heart y pasar un minuto divertido, haced click en el video y si no funciona haced click aquí:

http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?8-the-tell-tale-heart=&i=Qkl6OHk2cWuRpMHp2RUk

Otras adaptaciones de The Tell-tale Heart:
· http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8bgra_the-tell-tale-heart_shortfilms
· http://goanimate.com/movie/0BXCMoCVRLm4
. Y no os perdais en el programa de José Mota el episodio del Cansino Histórico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ePz7k8z2g8

El corazón delator: resumen
(The tell-tale heart)

By César Muñiz, Sergio Gavilanes and Víctor Pulido.

Esta es la historia de un hombre que vivía con un anciano al que cuidaba y al que le tenía cariño, pero el viejo tenía un ojo que recordaba a los ojos de un buitre y al hombre esta visión lo ponía nervioso. Un día decidió matarlo. Luego de asesinar al viejo lo partió en pedazos y lo ocultó debajo de unas tablas del suelo. Al poco tiempo tres policías llamaron a la puerta ya que un vecino había denunciado haber oído un grito. El hombre amablemente los invitó a pasar hasta donde tenía escondido al anciano. Al principio estaba tranquilo pero poco a poco se fue poniendo más y más nervioso, se desesperaba y su corazón empezó a latir con fuerza. El hombre pensaba que era el corazón del viejo que aún latía y que los policías también lo estaban escuchando… Lleno de remordimientos y atormentado acabó por confesar su crimen.
Yes, I did it! (…) it is the beating of his horrible heart!

EDGAR ALLAN POE. COMPLETE WORK

BY Alex Vila, Ana Cabido, Lydia Feijóo.

· Fiction
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
· Plays
Politian
· Short Stories or tales
The Assignation
Berenice
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
Landor's Cottage
The Masque of the Red Death
Mesmeric Revelation
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Oblong Box
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Silence -- a Fable
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
William Wilson
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
The Angel of the Odd
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de L'Omelette
Loss of Breath
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop-Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
Bon Bon
Some Words with a Mummy
· Essays
Death of Edgar A. Poe
Edgar Allan Poe: An Appreciation
Life of Poe
Philosophy of Furniture
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry
· Poetry
A Dream
A Dream Within A Dream
A Paean
A Valentine
Al Aaraaf
Alone
An Enigma
Annabel Lee
Bridal Ballad
Dreamland
Dreams
Eldorado
Eulalie
Evening Star
Fairyland
For Annie
Hymn
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius
Imitation
In Youth I Have Known One
Israfel
Lenore
Romance
Silence
Song
Sonnet: To Science
Spirits of the Dead
Tamerlane
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
The Conqueror Worm
The Forest Reverie
The Happiest Day
The Haunted Palace
The Lake
The Raven
The Sleeper
The Valley of Unrest
The Village Street
To Frances S. Osgood
To Helen
To Isadore
To Marie Louise (Shew)
To My Mother
To One in Paradise
To The River
To Zante
Ulalume

EDGAR ALLAN POE BIOGRAFIA Y OBRA

By César Muñiz, Sergio Gavilanes and Victor Pulido.

Biografía
Edgar Allan Poe nació en Boston (Estados Unidos) un 19 de Enero de 1809 y murió un 7 de Octubre de 1849 en Baltimore. Fue escritor, poeta y crítico. A la muerte de sus padres, cuando sólo tenía dos años, fue adoptado por un rico plantador de Richmond, Virginia apellidado Allan. A los seis años fue enviado a Gran Bretaña en donde estudió durante diez años. En 1825, otra vez en Estados Unidos, comenzó unos estudios universitarios que nunca llegaría a acabar. Por esto y por su afición al alcohol y al juego sus relaciones con su protector se rompieron.
En Boston publica su primer libro. Se enrola en el ejército de donde lo expulsan por mala conducta. Colabora regularmente con varios periódicos. Se casa con su prima de 14 años cuya muerte, once años después de la boda, no logra superar. En 1849 lo encuentran moribundo a la puerta de una taberna de Baltimore.
Su obra
Edgar Allan Poe consideraba que el objetivo de la poesía era la búsqueda de la belleza. Sin embargo, su concepto de estética no coincidía con los contemporáneos de su país: imágenes lúgubres y fantasmagóricas fueron el resultado de su genio atormentado, creando relatos espeluznantes y fantásticos.
Fue con su volumen de poemas El Cuervo y otros Poemas (The Raven and other Poems) publicado en 1845 que consiguió buenas críticas y la fama, pero poco dinero.
Como prosista es autor de 67 cuentos de misterio y terror, algo novedoso en su época y que se convertirían en el origen de la actual novela policiaca.

EDGAR ALLAN POE IN SPANISH

It's said tha impossible is nothing. It is if you don't face reality when reality means eleven-year-old kids from a beautiful Galician village trying to read and summarize Edgar Allan Poe's tales in English. It is impossible to make them express themselves in a foreign language to summarize literay works, and it is worthless to pretend that they will be able to read Poe's tales and poems in English however adapted or abridge they may be. But it is possible to make them love literature because reading is fun, and because while they are entering a magic world they can discover different cultures, new feelings, ancient or even future times.

Colle and Slater explained in the 80's that "engaging imaginatively with literature enables learners to shift the focus of their attention beyond the more mechanical aspects of the foreign language system" But don't forget that efficient reading takes places when the language of the text is comprehensible to the learners. Let's admit that most kids find it difficult not only to understand or express themselves in a foreign language, but also to read a story in their own language.

It was 19th January 2010, 200+1 years after Edgar Allan Poe's birth and since my students are so interested in mystery and horror stories, I decided to pay tribute to the first genius of this genre. Many pre and post-activities were done in English, but my students had a lot to say in their mother tongues - Spanish and Galician. Calm down and don't panic, you Direct Approcheraddictoholic! When you are a Latin language speaker and you are studying the 5th or 6th level, grade, year, the gap between the English you can speak and the English you can understand can be really huge. Belive it or not, this is the first step beyond to narrow that gap: Sometimes the mother tongue can be used. It really works!

Here you are the result of enjoying working and searching for information in English and reading some of the most frightening tales by Allan Poe in Spanish.

In honour to Edgar Allan Poe and his universality without language barriers.

XACOBEO 2010. The second Holy Year of the 21st century is to be celebrated this year.

The Jubilee Year of Compostela has been celebrated since the Middle Ages. It's Holy Year when the feast day of the Apostole Saint James, 25th July, fell on a Sunday.

Come and join us this Año Santo Compostelano!

of YOUTH by UNESCO.

UNESCO: Unitede Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It helps poor countries with education and science

YOUTH: young men and women.

for RAPPROCHEMENT OF CULTURES.

Rapprochement: coming together again in friendly relations (for example, former enemies)

Wellcome to 2010: International year ...

of BIODIVERSITY: all the types of plant and animal that live in an area. Let's preserve biodiversity and protect the environment!

Wellcome to spanglish4kids

Los alumnos de Active Learning School of English de la Fundación Ramón González Ferreiro nos hemos metido a bloggeros. No es un blog con grandes aspiraciones, sino un blog humilde en el que todos colaboraremos con ilusión publicando nuestros trabajos, opiniones y nuestros proyectos de investigación, algo en suma, para nosotros y nuestros padres, pero con nuestra bienvenida a cualquier curioso que pase por aquí a visitarnos.

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