INTERESANTE PROPUESTA BILINGÜE SOBRE DON QUIJOTE PARA TERCERO DE DIVERSIFICACIÓN CURRICULAR.

1. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
Learning about Don Quixote.
IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA.
Level 3rd
Sessions 5
METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT,
INTERDISCIPLINARY ASPECTS.
The unit will be developed in parallel to the
History didactic unit on the literature of the
Golden Age. In the same way, it will serve as a
review of the contents and skills of English
worked throughout the first term.
SESSIÓN 1 &2nd:DISCOVERING CERVANTES AND
DON QUIXOTE.
1.Reading.
¿What are we going to learn about?.
Read in pairs and answer the questions bellow.
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there
lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old
buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing». Este sería el comienzo de ‘Don
Quijote de La Mancha’ en inglés y en este idioma nos cuenta un alumno datos
importantes de la obra de Cervantes que este año cumple su IV centenario.
Don Quixote was written 400 years ago by Cervantes in 1605, when the first edition of El
ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha was published.
Don Quixote has become one of the most admired works in the history of literature
since it first appeared.
It is a parody which mocks the “knights genre” by means of the two main characters,
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, two Spanish men of that time who, forgetting the
material world, undertake an idealist crusade and travel all over the country in order to
make fun of their contemporary society which becomes caricaturized.
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2. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
This work of art has conquered all the world as it both well known and studied.
The book has been translated into so many languages that this record has only been
matched by another universal book, the Bible.
(Practicing wh questions).
1.1 Questions.
1. When was Don Quixote written?
2. Who is the author of this book?
3. How many main characters do we find?
4. What does genre of gentlemen mean?
5. Why is this book so important?
6. What is the book that has been translated the most times in the
history of literature?
1.2 Hello Mr.Miguel!!!.
Now is the time to meet the author of this treasure of
literature. For this I leave you a link that you must visit.
I leave you an interesting video that we will see in class
and that will serve as a basis for us to prepare an
interesting visit to Vélez-Málaga which has a lot to do
with this famous writer.
https://youtu.be/iZDARdIe10c
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3. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
● Activity:
Prepare questions for an interview with Don
Miguel de Cervantes, You must work as a team with
two of your colleagues and organize the filming of
the interview for which we will visit the Beniel
palace, at the entrance of which there is a beautiful
figure of the writer. One of you will act as
Cervantes and another from a journalist who has
traveled back in time with another friend to meet
the author of Don Quixote.
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4. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
SESIONS 3rd and 4th.
What character would you
be?
2.A casting for an historical bestseller.
Imagine that you are one of the famous characters from Don Quixote and
you have to introduce yourself to Cervantes so that he chooses you as the
protagonist of his book. You have to describe yourself highlighting the
qualities that you already know and that we have worked on in the field of
literature. You can prepare the presentation using costumes, music and
everything you can do to be chosen. All your classmates will be part of the
casting and will give you a score. However, it will be Cervantes who will vote
for your final selection.
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5. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
These are your options.Play and enjoy before preparing your
fantastic casting.
Your score will improve if you:
You use different tenses.
You use different adjectives taking into
account the correct order as we have
studied.
You provide real data that you have
researched about the characters.
You are original
You speak without fear and transmit.
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7. IN A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA. BY JUAN FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ ZAMORA
SESSION 5th
IF YOU WERE A FAMOUS WRITTER.
After our interesting visit to the historic center of Vélez
and since we know Don Quixote and Cervantes, it is
time to start your imagination. Write a story in which
you become the protagonist of a crazy story in which
you meet Don Quijote .You can invent a new character
that you can design in art class. It will be your avatar for
the rest of the course. We will place all the avatars in
class and thus we will not forget the importance of Don
Quixote and his enthusiasm for making the world fairer
and more egalitarian.
Conclussion The closing of this unit can be
carried out during the cultural week
of our center. Moment in which we
will expose the drawings or designs
of our different avatars and we will
place posters explaining their
characteristics and experiences
with Don Quixote.
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