1. Why is the presenter at the Bodleian Library in Oxford?
2. Date of the Shelleys’ trip to Geneva:
3. Expression to tell us that they are getting on well with their host:
4. Why did they have to spend most of the time indoors?
5. Who suggested that they all write a ghost story?
6. Where did Mary get the idea for Frankenstein from?
7. Number of novels she had written up to that moment:
8. What’s happened to Mary Shelley’s notebook?
9. Who wrote on the margins of the pages? Why?
10. What happens in the passage that they have in from of them?
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to _____________ to her great history inheritance.
12. Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women) was her __________
13. Full date of first publication:
14. Where did Walter Scott publish his guess that the novel might be by Shelley?
1. Why is the presenter at the Bodleian Library in Oxford?
ReplyDeleteBecause there is an exhibition with an original manuscrite of Mary Shelley.
2. Date of the Shelleys’ trip to Geneva:
May 1816
3. Expression to tell us that they are getting on well with their host:
They really get it off? they get terribly well.
4. Why did they have to spend most of the time indoors?
Because the atmosphere is full of ¿nush?. dust clouds.
5. Who suggested that they all write a ghost story?
Baron
6. Where did Mary get the idea for Frankenstein from?
a Dream
7. Number of novels she had written up to that moment:
none
8. What’s happened to Mary Shelley’s notebook?
lose leaves
9. Who wrote on the margins of the pages? Why?
Shelleys husband.
10. What happens in the passage that they have in from of them?
Frankstein is trying to finde the creature. That passage is a thunderstorm.
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to _______leave up______ to her great history inheritance.
12. Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women) was her ___mother_______
13. Full date of first publication:
NewYears day 1819
14. Where did Walter Scott publish his guess that the novel might be by Shelley?
in his reviews nobels.
Right, as Cristina has answered all the questions, I'm just adding my comments:
ReplyDeleteIn 3. I understand "heated off"
In 4: He talks about a huge volcanic explosion that covered the atmosphere on ash (the presenter adds "another ash cloud")
In 5: I think he talks about Lord Byron.
In 9: Her husband was helping her with grammar, he corrected a few words, factual changes??, as a gift.
In 10: Frankenstein and the creature (the figure in the text) saw eachother.
That's all.
I feel really tired.....awn!
She you on saturday....
1. Why is the presenter at the Bodleian Library in Oxford? There is an exhibition there about M.S.
ReplyDelete2. Date of the Shelleys’ trip to Geneva: May 1816
3. Expression to tell us that they are getting on well with their host: Heated off?
4. Why did they have to spend most of the time indoors? Because the volcanic explosions (Mount Tambora) made an ash cloud which covered the atmosphere.
5. Who suggested that they all write a ghost story? Lord Byron
6. Where did Mary get the idea for Frankenstein from? from a dream.
7. Number of novels she had written up to that moment: It was her first novel.
8. What’s happened to Mary Shelley’s notebook? ***!!! (deteriorated?)
9. Who wrote on the margins of the pages? Mary´s husband, Why? He helped with grammar, style...
10. What happens in the passage that they have in from of them? Victor F. is trying to find the creature during a thunderstorm and tells about his feelings.
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to leave out to her great history inheritance.
12. Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women) was her mother
13. Full date of first publication:January, 1st 1818
14. Where did Walter Scott publish his guess that the novel might be by Shelley?
Review of novels
Yay! Getting closer to the answers... Right now I only have a couple of them to correct. Good job!
ReplyDeleteKey coming very soon...
1. Bodleian Library is the place where there is the original book of Frankestein and also there is an exhibition.
ReplyDelete2. May 1816
3. ???
4. Because of the weather. There was an explotation and it covered the atmosphere in ash.
5. ????
6. She get the idea for a dream.
7. None
8. The notebook has loosed leaves?
9. Mary´s husband. He was helping her with the grammar and characters.
10. It is very dramaticaly, it is when Frankestain is trying to find his creature: The murder.
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to leave up to her great history inheritance.
12. M. W was her mother.
13. New Years day 1818
14.???
So, answers to this video activity:
ReplyDelete1. Why is the presenter at the Bodleian Library in Oxford?
Because the play is predicated on the book, and not on any of the famous movies, and at the moment there is an exhibition about the novel at the Bodleian Library, where we can see even the original manuscript.
2. Date of the Shelleys’ trip to Geneva: May 1816
3. Expression to tell us that they are getting on well with their host: “they really hit it off” (informal)
4. Why did they have to spend most of the time indoors?
Because there had been a huge volcanic explosion (mount Tambora, in Indonesia), which had covered the atmosphere in ash. It caused what was called the “Year Without Summer" (see http://www.yourdiscovery.com/earth/year_without_summer/index.shtml). So, an ash cloud like the one by our dear Eyjafjallajokull, only a lot more powerful.
5. Who suggested that they all write a ghost story? Lord Byron (their host).
6. Where did Mary get the idea for Frankenstein from? She said the idea had come to her in a dream.
7. Number of novels she had written up to that moment: none.
8. What’s happened to Mary Shelley’s notebook? It is not longer physically a notebook because the leaves were at some point detached, which means we now only have loose leaves (Sp. “hojas sueltas”). Do not confuse with the verb "to lose", by the way the past participle in that case would sound very different: it's lost leaves.
9. Who wrote on the margins of the pages? Why?
Shelley (her husband, who was, as you will remember a poet). He helps with grammar, corrects a few words, makes some factual changes, and even adds whole passages
10. What happens in the passage that they have in from of them?
It’s the moment in which Frankenstein is trying to find the creature, because it has murdered his younger brother, William. It’s a thunderstorm. If you listen to his reading, you will see that they actually see each other in that passage.
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to _______live up______ to her great history inheritance.
live up to something: to do as well as or be as good as other people expect you to. Ex: He failed to live up to his parents' expectations.
12. Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women) was her ___mother_______
13. Full date of first publication: 1st January 1818
14. Where did Walter Scott publish his guess that the novel might be by Shelley?
In his review of the novel.