Blog 1 Spe 2020-2021

 

 

 

 Watch the scene and answer the following questions. Record your answers and send them (Thursday 26Th). - which famous characteristics of vampires do you recognise? - according to you why did Dracula ask Jonathan to write letters? - sum up their dialogue. - why is this scene gothic?

   A) Before reading: what do you know about vampires? (Take notes) B) Read the text and sum it up (in English...) C) Pick out the gothic elements. D) Find information about Bram Stoker. Use this website:      https://www.biography.com/writer/bram-stoker                                                            Extract from chapter 2   Jonathan Harker’s journal :   Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing lon...

  Complete this list: Atmosphere N:  clanking chains; crazed laughter ; doors suddenly slamming shut;  eerie (= strange, weird) sounds; gusts of wind;     adj: creepy, disturbing, gloomy... Mystery N: devil; ghost; goblins; haunted place; magic;  omens; secret; spirits; supernatural elements; visions…     Fear, Terror or Horror... N: agony; anguish; apprehensions; disgust; dismay; fright; horror; panic; shrieks; terror...   NB: it is scary/ frightening  but a character is scar ed / frighten ed...   Surprise adj: amazed; astonished; dismayed; shocked, surprised; thunderstruck...   Haste adj: anxious; breathless; frantic;     adv:  hastily; impatiently;precipitately; suddenly…   Anger N: anger; fury; rage; resentment; temper; wrath...   adj: ang...