23 APRIL: WORLD BOOK DAY

Etiquetas: -


Resultado de imagen de world book day


 Every year on April 23rd millions of people around the world celebrate books and reading on ‘World Book Day’. 
The date is important because two great writers died on this day in 1616; William Shakespeare, the English playwright and poet and Miguel de Cervantes, the Spanish writer. 
So, what happens on this special day each year? Well, it depens on the city where you live but , usually, schools, book shops and libraries hold all kinds of fun events. People wear costumes of their favourite book characters, authors sign copies of their books, story-tellers read to children and adults … and much more.

 How are we going to celebrate this day? we're going to do the following activities
ACTIVITY 1. But what do you know about Shakespeare? Watch this video which is a trailer of a film based in his life (Shakespeare in love):



ACTIVITY 2.  Read the following infographic about Shakespeare and translate these sentences into Spanish ( write it down in your notebook/ Copialo en tu libreta):

 
ACTIVITY 3. The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays as having been produced, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. Some are faithful to the original story and text, while others are adaptations that use only the plots rather than his dialogue. Write at least four films based in his works / Dime al menos 4 películas basadas en sus obras (Copialo en tu libreta).
For example Romeo +Juliet with Dicaprio as main character / aquí tenéis un ejemplo de película basada en una de sus obras más conocidas ( es una versión moderna como podéis ver en el trailer):