Observaciones y contexto
The activity consists of practising listening comprehension in order to grasp the main ideas and rewrite the text with their own words. Students do the activity in groups, so that they also practise oral production and put into practice mechanisms of active listening and mediation.
The links to the different episodes of the BBC Frankenstein audio series contain the audio of each episode and the transcript, together with a glossary of vocabulary. Both the audio and transcript can be downloaded separately. If we are working on listening comprehension, it is ideal to give them access to the audio only. For this purpose, QR codes have been added, which give access to the audio only.
Beforehand, students should be asked to bring headphones and, if possible, mobile phones with an internet connection (they can be given access to the school's wifi or data can be shared with the students). Tablets can also be used if the school has them.
To carry out the activity, they will be put into small groups (about 4 people per group). Each group will be given one or two QR codes, with access to one or two episodes of the BBC series, Dramas: Frankenstein. The advantage of using QR codes is that, as each group will only have access to their own podcast, the other groups will not know which episode(s) the other groups will listen to.
Each group will listen to the episode or episodes that correspond to them (within the same group, they can listen individually, in pairs or in a large group, depending on the space and means available), they will take notes of what they hear and then, among all the members of the group, they will have to reconstruct the story they have heard and write it down on a piece of paper.
Once all the groups have written down their episodes, they will hang them up or display them on the tables around the class. Each group will read each other's summaries and try to put the episodes in order.
This activity can be combined with the activity sheets Learning about Frankenstein and Frankenstein is still alive -also designed for 4th ESO-, which work on written expression (verb tenses) and written comprehension, respectively.
Some of Mary Shelley's contemporaries, who influenced her work, are mentioned in the following points.
- Mary Wollstoncraft (1759-1797), mother of Mary Shelley and one of the pioneers of the modern feminist movement (notably her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792). She was a strong advocate of a social order based on reason. She established herself as a professional freelance writer in London, which was unusual for the time.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), poet, essayist, literary critic, editor and children's author. She had a great influence on the Romantic movement of the time by promoting Enlightenment values and sensibility. Her poetry contributed to the development of British Romanticism and her anthology of 18th century novels helped to establish the current literary canon.
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), writer of what is considered to be the first romantic novel in the English language, Jane Eyre, which already incorporates elements of the Gothic.
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848), whose novel Wuthering Heights also incorporates elements of the Gothic and has become established as one of the classics of British literature.
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1848), one of the great novelists who wrote about "the condition of England", that is, about society and the problems of the working class. Her novels include Mary Barton and North and South.
- George Sand, pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Dudevant (1804-1876), one of the most notable writers of Romanticism and immensely popular in her time.
Descripción
Active listening. Distinguishing main ideas and essential information.
Group activity in which students have to listen to a series of podcasts telling the story of Frankenstein, discuss the content and rewrite the story of each chapter in their own words. They then have to put these chapters in order to reconstruct the whole story.
The aim of this activity is for students to learn to develop active listening skills, to identify the essential information and main ideas of an oral text and to infer meaning from the context and from sound and rhythmic patterns.
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