This lesson contains 11 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.
Items in this lesson
Slide 1 - Slide
Vocabulary
Go to wordwall and practise with stylistic devices poetry:
https://wordwall.net/play/21114/664/506
(link is also in Teams-Posts)
Slide 2 - Slide
The Danish Girl
Have you ever had the feeling you could not fully be yourself? You could not look the way you wanted? Behave the way you wanted? How important are other people’s opinions about you? What or who decides who you want to be? Discuss with a partner for 5 minutes.
Slide 3 - Slide
The Danish Girl
What if being you was not possible at all? Condemned by society. Read the extract in the reader from a novel based on a true story.
Decide what hardship one of the main characters – Einar – has to deal with.
Slide 4 - Slide
What hardship does Einar have to deal with?
Slide 5 - Open question
The Danish Girl
We are now going to watch this scene in the film adaptation of the novel. Has the producer succeeded in depicting the scene the way you imagined it when reading the extract? Why (not)?
Slide 6 - Slide
Has the producer succeeded in depicting the scene the way you imagined it when reading the extract? Why (not)?