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EngelsMiddelbare schoolvwoLeerjaar 4
In deze les zitten 12 slides, met tekstslides.
Lesduur is: 30 min
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10 novellas
Choose one of these novellas.
You will get a test during the testweek.
All titles are available online.
You can find the list of novellas on Moodle as well.
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1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
A novella about animals taking over a farm and getting human like personalities, also a parable on Communism.
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2. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
A novella about a man who travels into the future several times to see what will become of the human race.
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3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A novella about two men sharing an adventure while looking for work during the American economical depression of the 1930s.
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4. The turn of the screw by Henry James
A novella about a woman who is declared insane after looking after two children who see ghosts.
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5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (The abridged version!)
A novella about a doctor who’s experimenting on being able to split his personality into two.
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6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novella about a doomed love, set against the background of “The Roaring Twenties” in America of the last century.
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7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Longer, but funnier than the rest.
A novel about a human who gets rescued from Earth just before it is blown up and he gets to know the answer to “Life, the Universe and everything”.
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Advanced Students
These are a bit older than the rest, so their English is a bit harder too!
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8. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A novella about an Englishman who is intrigued by the stories he has heard about a white man who is seen by the local people in the Congo as something different.
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9. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
A novella about a world of a two dimensional being who suddenly gets to meet a figure from the third dimension.
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10 A. Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
10 B. The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allen Poe
A. A short story about a clerk in a lawyer’s office who gets away with doing less and less.
B. A short story about a person who commits acts against his self-interest.
Lesduur is: 30 min
