dilluns, 13 de desembre del 2010

ACTIVITIES
1. What do you know about Mark Twain? Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

Twain was popular, and his wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and W
illiam Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".

2. Write a summary of each chapter. Add images/videos...

CHAPTER 1

Aunt Polly ordered to Tom to paint the fence.
He doesn't like it, and finally his friends do it for him.

CHAPTER 2

First tom was in the church but he brought a little beetle, in his pocket and he left it go. There was a little dog and it barked, after then the beetle bit the dog's noise and the dog started run after the black beetle, all the people laughed silently.

While tom going to Sunday school, he met Huck with a dead cat. And Huck convinced Tom to go the graveyard. After then he went to school, he was late., again, the teacher was really angry with him and he sat Tom with the new student Becky Thatcher, Tom was in love in this moment, the girl was so beautiful..
At midnight, he heard Huck meow. He dressed quickly and went out of the bedroom window. They went to the cementery and they heard a noise, they were scary!!!

CHAPTER 3

First there were three more people in the cementery, the boys though they were ghosts. After then they descovered, they were humans, Muff Potter, Injun Joe and Dr Robinson. Injun Joe wanted more money from the Dr. Robinson, but he didn't give it. Injun Joe and Dr.Robinson started fought and finally Injun Joe killed Dr. Robinson, with the Muff Potter's knife. And he belived faith who killed Dr. Robinson was Muff Potter.

CHAPTER 4

The sheriff put Muff Potter in the jail because he found Muff Potter's knife near the doctor's body. Tom and Huck promised that they didn't say anything about what happened in the graveyard. Huck, Joe and Tom wanted to be pirats and they went to Jackson's island. All the people in the town thought they were dead and the day of the funeral, they appeared in the church all the people celebrated a party, because they are there.

CHAPTER 5

One day Tom and Huck decided to visited Muff Potter in the jail, they gave to him some food. Muff Potter was very happy.
Every one in the village went to Muff Potter's trial. Injun Joe was at the trial too. The soprise called Tom everyone was surprised and looked at Tom. Tom told his story and the people of St.Petersburg listened to him. They were very surprised. tom suddenly heard a very loud noise. Injun Joe jumpedout of the window and disappeared!!
Tom became the hero of St. Petersburg. He saved Muff Potter's life. Tom's days were happy but his nights were not. At night he had terrible dreams about Injun Joe. The days passed and no one could find Injun Joe.

CHAPTER 6

Firt Tom and Huck wanted to find a treasure in the haunted house. The haunted house was an old, lonly and strange place.
Then Tom and Huck listened two mens: Injun Joe and Spanish man, and the two mans had a treasure.
Finally they hid the treasure under the cross!

CHAPTER 7

It was Becky Tatcher's birthday on Saturday. A big boat took Becky, Tom , and few friends of them, and the children went to visit McDougal's Cave. Some children were afraid but they all went in.nobody knew nothing about this cave. The children ran in the tunnels and in the rooms. But always near the entrance. Tom and Becky wanted to find a new tunnels and they delved in the cave. After a while they were lost!!
The boat left without them because they thougth they had gone.
Huck wanted to find the treasure of Injun Joe . He hid behind a tree and watched and old house.
Injun Joe was in this house.










3. Write a description of the main characters.
4. SPEAKING:Podcasting
Option A : Reading the summaries.
Option B: Find your favourite scene and podcast it in pairs.

We haven't finished , we going to finish it next week

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