Charles Dickens

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Dickens was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, a Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby... Charles is remembered as one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century. Among his accomplishments, he has been lauded for providing a stark portrait of the Victorian-era underclass, helping to bring about social change. He was born in 1812 and he dead in 1870.

NOVELS

A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Nicolas Nickleby, The Picwick papers and The old Curiosity Shop

SOCIETY

During the 19th century life was transformed by the Industrial Revolution. At first, it caused many problems but in the late 19th century life became more comfortable for ordinary people. Meanwhile, Britain became the world's first urban society. By 1851 more than half the population lived in towns. The population of Britain boomed during the 1800s. In 1801 it was about 9 million. By 1901 it had risen to about 41 million. This was despite the fact that many people emigrated to North America and Australia to escape poverty. About 15 million people left Britain between 1815 and 1914. However many people migrated to Britain in the 19th century. In the 1840s many people came from Ireland, fleeing a terrible potato famine. In the 1880s the Tsar began persecuting Russian Jews. Some fled to Britain and settled in the East End of London.

In the early 19th century Britain was ruled by an elite. Only a small minority of men were allowed to vote. The situation began to change in 1832 when the vote was given to more men. Constituencies were also redrawn and many industrial towns were represented for the first time. The franchise was extended again in 1867 and 1884. In 1872 the secret ballot was introduced. Once most men could vote movements began to get women the right to vote as well. In 1897 in Britain local groups of women who demanded the vote joined to form the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 

STYLE 

The fashion of the 19th century is renowned for its corsets, bonnets, top hats, bustles and petticoats. Women’s fashion during the Victorian period was largely dominated by full skirts, which gradually moved to the back of the silhouette. However, towards the end of the period, the less restrictive Aesthetic style began to emerge.

PHOTOS

A new year

Buskaid

The story of how Buskaid began is one of strange chance and coincidence. In late 1991 British viola player Rosemary Nalden happened to hear a short clip on Radio 4’s Today Programme about the difficulties besetting a string project in Diepkloof, Soweto. A couple of months later, a similar report appeared in the Independent on Sunday, a newspaper which she read only intermittently. Responding to this double plea for help, Rosemary organised a ‘busk’ in 16 British Rail stations, with the support of around 120 professional musician friends and colleagues, to raise cash for the young African string players. A month later, in April 1992, on the first of many visits to the project (which was located in the washroom of a rundown community hall next to a sprawling squatter camp) Rosemary was overwhelmed by the wealth of talent and extraordinary motivation of the dozens of children coming in for lessons. Over the next few years, the UK’s Buskaid Trust (formed in 1992) organised further fundraising ventures, but by then the township project was running into unresolvable internal difficulties. In 1997, in response to requests from several of the children and their parents, Rosemary started a new project in a tiny dilapidated office attached to a priest’s house in Diepkloof. Around fifteen children from the original project formed the nucleus of this new venture; soon many more were applying to join.

In l999, with the support of a number of South African companies and trusts, Buskaid opened its own purpose-built Music School, also in Diepkloof. By now its numbers had more than doubled, and when word spread that the new school had opened, Rosemary was inundated with requests from many more children to join. The strange phenomenon of this fascination in the townships for playing the violin can in part be explained by a visit to South Africa in 1950 by Yehudi Menuhin, who, defying the terms of his contract, performed to a black audience in Sophiatown. In the audience was a young boy who was enormously inspired by Menuhin’s playing, and against all odds subsequently managed to find someone to teach him the violin. Four of his pupils eventually formed the Soweto String Quartet, many of whose children have studied at Buskaid.

My recipe from Sweden

POTATOES HASSELBACK


Ingredients:
potatoes, as you want
1 spoon of olive oil
pepper and salt
Recepe:
We put the oven on 200ºC
We wash the potatoes
We have to cut with form of acordeon
When we cut, tou add salt and pepper, as you want
We put in the oven until 45 minutes
And we have the potatoes hasselback!!!!

Zev Hoover

Zev hoover is a famous young photograph, he takes photos of himself and then he uses his computer to make people very small. He creates a huge world where tini people are doing different things like swimming, climbing trees, walking in forest or flying planes

Street artist

He is Banksy, an Street artist, he was born in Briston, England in 1974. He rose prominence for his provocative stenciled pieces in the late 1990s.
Here are som of his plays
 

My lapbook

My self assessment

What can I do I couldn´t do before?
I could speak English without translation
Can I understand information from listening?
Yes, I can
Can I write a brief paragraph?
Yes I can
Can I speak using vocabulary and grammar learnt this term?
Yes I can
Can I understand information from readings?
Yes I can
What do I like most?
I like most compare the highschools because now I know how did in Gambia do classes with all of the problems of Africa
What do I do well?

Now I know better the comparatives and superlatives

What am I confused about?

Nothing 
What do I need help with?
Whith the pronuntiation

What do I do in English outside the class?

I go particular classes
What do I need to improve?
Pronuntiation
What did I learn about culture?
Of Canada culture

Men's gymnastics apparatus

Extreme sports

Here are some extreme sports 

Adjectives

                                       

MY SELF EVALUATION

1.- I can do the blog.
2.- When with Abby, we take all of the blackboard to write wardrobe.
3.- I do well the estructure and the colours of my blog.
4.- With after and before, I confuse all of the times.
5.- With some parts of the house.
6.- I go with a native American.
7.- On my handwritting.
8.- I learn about the thanksgivingday
CRISTINA AND ABBY THANKS FOR THIS TERM!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to tell the time

Abbreviations and acronyms

House vocabulary