Monday, 29 December 2014

charles dickens at christmas

Charles Dickens is famous for his detailed pictures of Victorian life:
Jay Doubleyou: oxford graded reader and bbc film: hard times by charles dickens

The Michelle Henry website has links to lots of great stuff:
Charles Dickens - ESL Resources

The BBC has dramatised most of his novels:
BBC - Drama - Bleak House
BBC One - Great Expectations

His life is interesting - again, with help from the BBC:
The life of Charles Dickens (BBC) –[Multimedia-English videos]
BBC - Primary History - Famous People - Charles Dickens

The year 2012 saw the bicentenary of his birth:
Dickens 2012 |

His most famous stories, however, are about Christmas:
The Chimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... which are available as easy readers:
ESL Publishing Trotty Veck and His Daughter Meg | ESL Publishing

And the most famous is Christmas Carol:

File:Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol-Title page-First edition 1843.jpg

A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again, there are lots of great materials from the BBC:
BBC - School Radio - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 1: Marley's ghost
BBC - Victorian Christmas - Activities - Reading 'A Christmas Carol'
Dickens | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

And there's a lot of stuff for the ESL learner and teacher:
A Christmas Carol - easy reader
"A Christmas Carol" - simplified version (KEY included) worksheet - Free ESL printable worksheets made by teachers
A Christmas Carol — ESOL Extras
English teaching worksheets: A Christmas Carol
"A Christmas Carol" lesson plans @Web English Teacher

On New Year's Day, BBC Radio will be broadcasting a dramatisation of the story:
BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon on 3, BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, A Christmas Carol

British writers are of course not the only ones to tell stories about Christmas:
Jay Doubleyou: hans christian anderson
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