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The aim of this activity is to introduce students to Mary Shelley and to review the contrast of past tenses: Past Simple and Past Continuous. The text could be made more complicated and other tenses such as Present Perfect and Past Perfect could be added.
Part A is a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge and prepare students for Part B, which is a grammar activity.
This worksheet can be complemented with the activity Frankenstein is still alive , which incorporates a reading comprehension of the text included in this activity. Also with the activity Frankenstein's puzzle, in which oral comprehension and written production are worked on.
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 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 Lucile Aurore de Dudevant (1804-1876), one of the most notable writers of Romanticism and immensely popular in her time.
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Activity to review the Past Simple and Past Continuous verb tenses based on a text about Mary Shelley and her work Frankenstein. The activity is preceded by a questionnaire to activate previous knowledge and introduce the figure of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein.
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