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• literature: The Iron Man

Goal: I understand the main parts of the story.

What do you think the story will be about?

THE IRON MAN

De Engelse dichter Ted Hughes schreef The Iron Man: A Children’s Story in Five Nights voor zijn eigen kinderen. Het was bedoeld als een verhaal voor het slapengaan. De Iron Man is een reusachtig groot wezen. Eerst denkt iedereen dat hij een soort monster is, maar dan redt hij Australië van een echt monster en is de Iron Man de held van de dag.

The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights is a 1968 science fiction novel by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, first published by Faber and Faber in the UK with illustrations by George Adamson.[1] Described by some as a modern fairy tale,[2] it narrates the unexpected arrival in England of a giant "metal man" of unknown origin who rains destruction on the countryside by eating industrial farm equipment, before befriending a small boy and defending the world from a dragon from outer space. Expanding the narrative beyond a criticism of warfare and inter-human conflict, Hughes later wrote a sequel, The Iron Woman (1993), describing retribution based on environmental themes related to pollution.

How do you think the story will end?

Paragraph 6 Exercise 1

Take 5 minutes to read the text

Let's do the exercise after that

GET TO WORK

• Watch the video on the next slide and do excerise 2

GET TO WORK

• Do exercise 3 in groups of two.

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