This slide has been specially designed for high school students in order to enjoy the reading of Bram Stoker's novel.

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2. Dracula

3.  Do you know Vlad Dracula?
 Was he a real person?
 Was he a criminal or a ghost – a real prince?
 Why was he so famous?
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4. What do you know about Dracula?
Do you know about Dracula from movies or
legends ?
What about the name? what does it mean?

6. Is it true of false? After reading the texts, check
this information
 Valid III the Impaler (also known as Vlad Dracula
1431 –1476) was Prince of Wallachia, a former country
that is now part of Romania.
 His was king for 3 times: in1448, from 1456 to 62, and
in 1476.
 Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he
imposed during his reign. That is why he became inspiration
for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's popular
Dracula
novel.

7. Some information about the author
 Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish
writer, and author of the horror novel Dracula.
 Before writing Dracula,
Stoker spent eight years
researching European
folklore and stories of
vampires!
 The novel is about a young solicitor, Jonathan
Harker, who travels to Transylvania to sell a
house to a nobleman named Dracula.

8. Let’s read the novel and listen
to it!
Let’s solve the comprehension
exercises!
A guide for reading novels.
Send your exercises
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9. First chapter:
The road to Castle Dracula

10.  Identify the characters!
 Identify the places!
 Answer questions on page 53
 Watch the trailer from the movie!

11. Europe 1890

12. Second chapter:
A prisoner in the Castle
•Answer questions on page 53

13. Third chapter:
The Vampires
•Answer questions on page 54
•Watch the trailer of the
movie (1960):
The Brides of Dracula

14. Fourth chapter
A visit to Hythe
 Answer questions on pages 54 & 55
Fifth chapter
How Lucy died
 Answer questions on page 55
Sixth Chapter:
The beautiful lady of Hythe
 Answer questions on pages 55 & 56

15. Seventh chapter
The House of the Vampire
•Answer questions on page 56
•Eighth chapter
The Flight of the Vampire
•Answer questions on page 56
Ninth chapter
The Return to Castle Dracula
•Answer questions on page 57

16. Do All exercises from the book, please!
Answer to the following questions:
1. Who was Prince Vlad Dracula?
2. Why was he called “Vlad the Impaler”
3. Who was Abraham Stoker?
4. What inspired him to write his novel?
5. What happened to Vlad’s wife?
6. What happens to the main characters in the novel’
7. Why does Dracula want to kidnap Mina?
8. How wourdl you lite to end this story?
9. Do you believe in vampires? Are they real or not?

18. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.draculas.info/literature/
http://www.draculas.info/count_dracula/
http://vampires.monstrous.com/the_impaler.htm
http://www.draculas.info/travel_transylvania/
http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/vlad-dracula.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

19. http://vampires.monstrous.com/short_stories_about_dracula.htm
Dracula’s short stories
The Golden Cup
The Priest
The Foreign Merchant
The Two Monks
Castle Dracula
The Polish Nobleman
The Foreign Ambassadors
Dracula's Mistress
The Lazy Woman
The Nobleman with the delicate sense of smell
The Burning of the Sick and Poor

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