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I am a teacher of English as a Foreign Language at a Secondary School in Logroño. The process of teaching and learning English together with my interest in the Internet and computers determines the birth of this blog. I would like to try the chances of bringing the Internet into my lessons as a tool for promoting autonomous learning of English among my students and the visitors here.
You are going to describe famous people and you classmates have to
guess who they are. You only have to write a short paragraph about a
celebrity and other people may send comments saying who they think each
person is.
Watch this video about Charles Dickens and complete his biography with the right years.
Charles John Huffam Dickens _______________ on 7th
February ................... to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the
second child of eight siblings in all, six of whom survived to adulthood. John,
a naval clerk, always spent beyond his means.
One day he pointed out a house to Charles, remarking that he could live in such
a house, if he worked hard.
The family____________ to London in ....................
At 12, as the family finances worsened,
Charles had to start working in a blacking factory, labelling bottles for
eleven hours a day. John Dickens was eventually sent to a debtors' prison. Charles ___________ him there every
Sunday. His youth left him with an ambitious drive. In .................... he
_________________ as a solicitor's clerk. From
the surroundings of his unremarkable office he began to collect names and
characteristics of the people he saw.
Charles began
a journalistic career in ........................ Writing became his
passion, working for the paper by day and on his own work by night. He was
beginning to taste success. His first piece of fiction was published in .......................
That same year Charles met Catherine Hogarth, they _________________ and ________________.
The next few years of fervent activity resulted in
much writing and many children. As his writing became more popular and his fame
more widespread, rumours began to aboundofhis drunkenness and admission to an asylum. Stories
were easy to concoct about the writer who kept a pet raven and whose writing dwelt in the extremes of the sentimental and the
grotesque.
In
...................... Charles and Catherine set sail for America. On
landing in Boston they were mobbed by crowds.
Dickens'sinterest
lay in visiting the unusual, which inspired
his writing. He took his whole family on his next big trip, to Italy, in the
summer of ...................... Upon his return, Dickens began to look for new
diversions. He helped to start and edit a radical newspaper, founded a refuge
for homeless women and performed his works at public readings.
Aged 44, Charles ______________ Gads Hill, the house his father had pointed out to him
all those years before. It symbolised the pinnacle of achievement. Whilst
Dickens was organising a theatrical project, The
Frozen Deep, he ________________ and was spellbound by a young actress
Ellen Ternan. There is much speculation about this relationship that
caused the end of his marriage to Catherine.
One fateful night in ........................., whilst
Charles and Ellen were returning from Paris their train crashed outside
Staplehurst. Dickens administered brandy and water to the injured and dying.
Only at the last minute did he remember to retrieve the final part of Our
Mutual Friend from the wrecked carriage. The incident left Charles very
shaken. For a while he maintained his itinerary, then his health began to fail.
At home on Wednesday 9th June .................., at the age of 58
Charles suffered a stroke and _______________. He's buried in Westminster
Abbey.
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