C1/B2 ..Christmas book hunting mayhem

Fellow literary book hunters,

there are still some days left until the magical Christmas Eve, so I have gathered a list of all the places where you can get your Christmas readings:

kníhkupectvá s anglickými knihami v Bratislave:

• http://www.alexis-knihy.sk/shop/index.php --- 10% zľava na prvú EN knihu, 20% na druhú, 30%...Košická 37/K CVERNOVKA (pozri mapu)
• http://www.eurobooks.sk/sk/1/skvelý e-shop, skvelé ceny, predvianočná 25% zľava na beletriu
• napr.  odporúčam vreckového Hobbita http://www.eurobooks.sk/sk/produkt/83592/The-Hobbit--vydanie-k-75-vyrociu/Pokiaľ sa náhodou kniha, ktorú hľadáte, nenachádza v našej ponuke, vyhľadáme ju pre Vás. Stačí ak vyplníte nezáväzný formulár hľadám knihu.
• http://www.martinus.sk/knihy/beletria-anglicky/ prvý slovenský literárny e-shop má už niekoľko kamenných obchodov na Obchodnej, aj s príjemnými zľavami, dvojjazyčnými verziami a kávou od Shtoora
• http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/cudzojazycna-literatura/beletria-anglicky
• http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/bilingvalna-literatura všadeprítomná Panta Rhei a ich cudzojazyčná a bilingválna beletria
• a samozrejme, všetci už poznáte OXICO na Palisádach, tu je ich anglická ponuka:
• http://www.oxico.sk/jazyky/aj/aj_cenniky.html
• vo vedľajšej ulici Panenskej je zas skvelá anglická kaviareň a antikvariát, kde nič nestojí viac ako 10 eur  http://www.nextapache.sk/books.html
• stále v starom meste na Laurinskej:  http://www.megabooks.sk/knihkupectvo/ Oxford Bookshop, široký sortiment, zľavy, výpredaje, 10% zľava pre registrovaných užívateľov, 10% na študentské preukazy

e-shopy so sídlom v Bratislave (to už skôr na povianočné výpredaje):

• http://www.11th.sk/how-to-shop  V súčasnosti fungujeme z nášho bytu na 11. poschodí typického bratislavského paneláku - preto názov  11th Floor Books. Naša ponuka kníh je obmedzená (rozmermi nášho bytu), starostlivo vyberaná, ale tiež náhodná, usporiadaná a zároveň chaotická. Knihy, ktoré tu môžete nájsť predstavujú len zlomok literárneho sveta. Dúfame však, že tento eklektický výber bude pre Vás inšpiráciou, a že sa Vám podarí nájsť to čo hľadáte, ako aj objaviť niečo nové...
• opakom 11th je zas Gorila Megastore, kde sa naopak tvária, že majú všetko..  http://www.gorila.sk/t/browse.php?cat_id=1176&gclid=CPbT1_7qjq0CFQOIDgodJyodRg

kniznice

http://www.mestskakniznica.sk/opac?fn=krasna_sk&fs=AAF819D82C1E42A6BF49704719B011CB

ÚSEK KRÁSNEJ A CUDZOJAZYČNEJ LITERATÚRY

 

SÍDLO:

Laurinská 5, Bratislava 
Tel.             02/ 544 31 316 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            02/ 544 31 316      end_of_the_skype_highlighting      
e-mail: studovna.krasna@mestskakniznica.sk
e-mail: vypozicky.krasna@mestskakniznica.sk

https://www.kis3g.sk/cgi-bin/gw_48_1_3/chameleon?skin=ukb

Vyhľadávanie v Univerzitnej Knižnici - odporúčam Britské Centrum

http://www.ulib.sk/sk/zahranicne-zbierky/britske-centrum/

Take your time to go through these links and pick something out ;)

Yr Father Christmas

P.S: For those of you, who didn't notice yet, there are some photos of the Christmas Party, already online

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 9 A Christmas Carol

My name is Scrooge, and I am going to tell you a Christmas Carol in prose:

(text for week before Christmas) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOTAzYzc5NGYtMDcxMi00ZjQ5LWEwZjUtMTFhOTFjNzRjYmM4

My Author was famous British Author, Charles Dickens. Who was he? (A FUNNY ANIMATION)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml

COULD YOU SURVIVE VICTORIAN LONDON?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/index_popup.shtml

MAKE YOUR OWN VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/victorianchristmas/activities.shtml

MICKEY MOUSE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (with your favourite, SCROOGE McDuck)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NpOsTY90fS0

1937 Hobbit - Sports Histories

1937 Hobbit - Sports History

Physical Education: Sports History

Old Took. Bilbo's grandfather on his mother's side, had a great-granduncle who was long remembered:

".. Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the Goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment."

Choose a sport and create a brief history about a way in which it may have been "invented." Try to capsule the idea in a short paragraph, as Tolkien did. Your story may be realistic or fantasy! Write your finished sports history here.

Služba Dokumenty Google uľahčuje vytváranie, ukladanie a zdieľanie dokumentov, tabuliek a prezentácií online.

B2 Literary Mayhem No.8, THE HOBBIT ..or there and back again!

Dear literary, ehm, Hobbits..

a little story:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and  an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a  hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only  because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything  unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. 

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he  gained anything in the end:

READ MORE HERE 4 OUR NEXT LECTURE (about Bilbo, the Ring and a creature called Gollum)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHZDM3NDc1YmMtMTA3ZC00ZmM4LWE4OTUtMTAwNzM5MDA3ZTY1

The extract is from the 5th chapter of prof. JRR Tolkien's first book by the name of The Hobbit (1937)

IF YOU'RE ALREADY INTERESTED IN YOUR 'HOBBIT HISTORY':

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rcfqzqZV9w7OjoNEZirBz6ZG3jY8JulIMZ5Xn1Yyvg/edit?hl=sk

OBSERVE:

http://pblancho.free.fr/index.html

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOLLUM AND THE RING?

see this movie 

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=9H09xnhlCQU&feature=mv_sr

Award winning unofficial prequel to The Lord Of The Rings dramatising Aragorn & Gandalf's long search for Gollum directed by British filmmaker Chris Bouchard. Based faithfully on the appendices of the books this is a non-profit, serious homage to the writing of J.R.R Tolkien and the films of Peter Jackson. It was shot on locations in England and Snowdonia with a team of over a hundred people working over the Internet. It took two years to make and was released as a non-profit Internet-only video by agreement with Tolkien Enterprizes. 

B2 Literary Mayhem No.7 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade

Dear Tom Sawyer's literary gang,

First of all, the deadline for your current homework is Sunday 20.11.2011 (nice date), 23:59 C.E.T. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c6fPSEDPiMOKTzAnnHrINFkOm0nDYl2pG8WgOdLeXM0/edit

the topic of next week is Mark Twain's latest book (we're in 1885), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

the two and a half chapters of which you are going to read here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XLzrjdDJA5gyzk7BuaCMHgk_UuaEWbS4LH7oJiMBUEs/edit

and an advertisement for which we will translate together:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dklEaeN0KI4HdUArGERtpBIsYOnpcvPIUXnBy2-uWvw/edit

and finally

read and listen to the novel online right here:

http://content.loudlit.org/audio/hfinn/pages/01_01_hfinn.htm

or read the NO FEAR version here (I wil ltell about it in the class):

http://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/huckleberry-finn/chapter-1/

B2 Literary Mayhem No.6 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Dear adventurous boys and girls,

Meet Samuel Clemens, alias Tom Sawyer alias Mark Twain

What does he say about himself?

I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the

almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County,

Missouri. . . . The village contained a hundred 

people and I increased the population by 

1 percent. It is more than many of the best men 

in history could have done for a town.

—The Autobiography of Mark Twain

and what about Tom Sawyer?

translate here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rkBjz3eRUoak3b5tLGF0UBXgI0GGNFy9Auf7T72lon0/edit

and read here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EO149acUEUXsLcvOKApJmYqXt2fP7EUNtlUV0y0fK0U/edit

Literary Mayhem No.5 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Fellow literature lovers,

enjoy your reading for the next week, try to answer the questions for your self:

1891 O.Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray CH1,2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ji1gR7cWSpA6qPB1uNeqJTT14nwJQIKzT1X-gEpGt3k/edit

here you can find the entire short novel: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WilDori.html

and here it is in many formats, including audio book: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/wildeoscetext94dgray10.html

also delightful is the translation we will start with. Please take a look:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15he30rAcf6JhBbdyNkTWKLE6SitztnRPQurcQX6zgoM/edit

About Dorian Gray:

Wilde published his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, before he reached the height of his fame. The first edition appeared in the summer of 1890in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.It was criticized as scandalous and immoral. Disappointed with its reception, Wilde revised the novel in 1891, adding a preface and six new chapters. The Preface (as Wilde calls it) anticipates some of the criticism that might be leveled at the novel and answers critics who charge The Picture of Dorian Gray with being an immoral tale. It also succinctly sets forth the tenets of Wilde's philosophy of art. 

This attitude was revolutionary in Victorian England, where popular belief held that art was not only a function of morality but also a means of enforcing it. In the Preface, Wilde also cautioned readers against finding meanings "beneath the surface" of art. Part gothic novel, part comedy of manners, part treatise on the relationship between art and morality, The Picture of Dorian Gray continues to present its readers with a puzzle to sort out. There is as likely to be as much disagreement over its meaning now as there was among its Victorian audience, but, as Wilde notes near the end of the Preface, "Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/context.html

Dorian Gray to play with:

http://www.yayoye.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-online-game/8534/

Adaptations, resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

for example

1945 version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIR-dqoJk8

2009 version with Collin Firth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AAtY8pZ50

P.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Gray_syndrome

B2 Literary Mayhem No.4 Treasure Island

Fellow literary pyrates,

welcome to this week's particularly entertaining edition of our weekly entertainment

this is hilarious! you must take a look and make notes on this amazing chapter:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KBqF_H3pX2rW66T2iBDPdSnS1VrQlBLY03FFEf3Hpv0/edit?hl=sk 

*(this week's improvement: if you click at underlined words, they will be explained for you!)

now read the whole thing here: http://www.kellscraft.com/treasureislandcontent.html

So, what is it?

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure mapsmarked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders. 

Resources

have you heard? Robinson Crusoe Island is a Treasure Island?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/26/chile.mainsection

You must see this! Hear ye, hear ye!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8SeGHrOps

1990 version starring Christian Bale,Charlton Heston,Oliver Reed and Christopher Lee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKa3_JSz6C8

Treasure Island in Outer Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_rcAbreZ8

Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. The 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters.[2][3] The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.

B2 Literary Mayhem no.3 Robinson Crusoe addendum

Hello,

just a few more resources -

BBC radio show based on Robinson Crusoe

http://www.4shared.com/audio/3Ux-isRv/Robinson_Crusoe_-_01_of_02.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/nL1EMzdn/Robinson_Crusoe_-_02_of_02.html

PLEASE WATCH AND COMPARE - CAST AWAY with Tom Hanks (2000)

http://www.megavideomovies.net/2010/04/watch-cast-away-2000-megavideo-movie.html

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

for your amusement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaHJvF59Fg&feature=player_embedded

B2 Literary Mayhem no.3 - The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York...

Fellow literary friends, 

Welcome to a deserted island edition of our weekly book sessions:

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un‐inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.

or otherwise known as Robinson Crusoe.

You are going to read:

Short version of chapter five : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZuFQarQftDuOorMG3AC9qmMOeBxyFHQZDjaLNN15ow/edit?hl=sk

the whole book http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Robinson_Crusoe_T.pdf

We are also going to discuss:

Colonial

Crusoe standing over Friday after he frees him from the cannibals.

Novelist James Joyce noted that the true symbol of the British conquest is Robinson Crusoe: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist. … The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity."^[10]

In a sense Crusoe attempts to replicate his society on the island. This is achieved through the use of European technology, agriculture and even a rudimentary political hierarchy. Several times in the novel Crusoe refers to himself as the 'king' of the island, whilst the captain describes him as the 'governor' to the mutineers. At the very end of the novel the island is explicitly referred to as a 'colony'. The idealised master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism. Crusoe represents the 'enlightened' European whilst Friday is the 'savage' who can only be redeemed from his barbarous way of life through assimilation into Crusoe's culture. Nonetheless Defoe also takes the opportunity to criticise the historic Spanish conquest of South America.

Religious

According to J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but an everyman. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the promised land. The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read.

Robinson Crusoe is filled with religious aspects. Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian. Cruso would have been remembered by contemporaries and the association with guide books is clear. It has even been speculated that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel.^[11]

The Biblical story of Jonah is alluded to in the first part of the novel. Like Jonah, Crusoe neglects his 'duty' and is punished at sea.

A leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of Providence. Crusoe often feels guided by a divinely ordained fate, thus explaining his robust optimism in the face of apparent hopelessness. His various fortunate intuitions are taken as evidence of a benign spirit world. Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday.

Moral

When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism. Despite his disgust, he feels unjustified in holding the natives morally responsible for a practice so deeply ingrained in their culture. Nevertheless he retains his belief in an absolute standard of morality; he regards cannibalism as a 'national crime' and forbids Friday from practising it. Modern readers may also note that despite Crusoe's self-proclaimed superior morality, he uncritically accepts the institution of slavery.

Resources

Movies

Robinson Crusoe -- Luis Buñuel (1954)

the whole movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMaE-ZN1uvw

1964 Television series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXhD1n5T8Yk&feature=related

!PLEASE WATCH! 1997 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNrwE6aSNk WITH SUBTITLES - MORE ABOUT DANIEL DEFOE

2008 "Crusoe" TV Series

trailer for your amusement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHr0k3_fns4&feature=related

A Game

http://www.bigfishgames.com/online-games/9320/adventures-of-robinson-crusoe/index.html

In this game you will need your dictionary skills to help Robinson

A Free AudioBook

http://librivox.org/robinson-crusoe-by-daniel-defoe/

Chapter 5 – Builds a House – The Journal – 00:38:15 

[mp3@64kbps - 18.3MB]

[mp3@128kbps - 36.7MB]

[ogg vorbis - 27.7MB]

Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark F. Smith. WITH CZECH SUBTITLES, RECOMMENDED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVZ7XwRkWv8&feature=relmfu

http://librivox.org/robinson-crusoe-by-daniel-defoe-2/

• Chapter 5: Builds a House - The Journal – 00:31:12
  [mp3@64kbps - 14.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 29.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 21MB

And that's all, folks.

Literary Mayhem No.1 Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Fellow literary friends, you will find this useful,

JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice

Literary text

excerpt you should read -  http://www.4shared.com/document/xVBkfWB1/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_J.html

the whole book - http://www.4shared.com/document/Lzc-XTyq/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_J.html
the whole book online - http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

Audio version of first 2 chapters - really helpful, different narrators, to download or listen online

http://www.4shared.com/folder/51SsgSea/1813_-_Pride_and_Prejudice.html

Movie versions - for comparison of dramatized versions

• Pride and Prejudice 1980 (BBC)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PDOT8bHGUI for your amusement
• Pride and Prejudice 1995 (BBC, w/Collin Firth and Jennifer Ehle)
  http://megavideo.com/?v=YEM1I17X please watch since approximately 2:00 to app. 11:40
• Pride & Prejudice 2005 (w/ Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen) http://www.solarmovie.eu/movie/playlink/id/229495/part/1/

Resources

Pride and Prejudice

• Simple English Version http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice
  

Dictionaries

• The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online is an online version
   of the CD-ROM of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Updated Edition.http://www.ldoceonline.com/
• Cambridge Dictionaries online (please use the Learner's) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/
• Onelook.com  http://www.onelook.com/
• Simple English Wikipedia http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Games

http://dynamo.dictionary.com/

With kind regards, 

Ondrej