English Literature
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Do you recognise all these writers?
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Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
J.K. Rowlings
Mark Twain
James M. Barrie
Conan Doyle
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Now you know their names... Do you dare to know important facts about them? If so, click in each writer to know more
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In 1903, Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years.Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. He died of a heart attack at the age of 71 in his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930
Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.. He was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School,
Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Edimbourgh
Doyle worked as doctor after his graduation and he became .an expert on diseases of the eye but he did many otther things such as: politics, sports, justice...
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
was born on the 15 th. September 1890
in Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom. She served in a Devon hospital during the First World War,
Marple, Murder on the Orient ExpressThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners ...Her novels have been translated into at least 103 languages Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home in Winterbrook, Cholsey, Oxfordshire
tending to troops coming back from the trenches, before marrying and starting a family in London. During the Second World War she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, and acquired a good knowledge of poisons which featured in many of her novels. She created the characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss
Statue d'Hercule Poirot à Ellezelles, Belgique.
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His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, with the character of Mr Scrooge, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted.
Charles John Huffam Dickens
was born the 7th, February 1812
in Landport, Hampshire, England. He left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place.
Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles....
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers
First edition 1843
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Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work. Barrie died of pneumonia on 19 June 1937 and was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. His birthplace at 4 Brechin Road is maintained as a museum by the National Trust for Scotland.
James Matthew Barrie was born the 9th, May 1860
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland.
He was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in
Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up,
Peter Pan statue by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens, London
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BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances and collaborated with other playwrights.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
and Baptised the 26th April 1564.He was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the language and the world's
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52.. He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in "perfect health".
pre-eminent dramatist. He produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, considered
Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet
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His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda...
Roald Dahl was born the 13th September 1916
in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a rare cancer of the blood, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford and was buried in the cemetery at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.
He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
Charlie and the factory chocolate
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His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
was born the 27th. January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, EnglandHe was better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.
He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. He is buried in Guildford at the Mount Cemetery.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
One of Carroll's own illustrations
Alice in Wonderland
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and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it. He passed through a period of deep depression which began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died of meningitis in 1904
Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was born the 30th, November 1835
in Florida, Missouri, U.S.
In 1909 he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it." His prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 in Redding ,Connecticut, one day after
He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, . He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. He earned a great deal of money from his writings
comet's closest approach to Earth.
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BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers.
Joanne Rowling, (born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist and screenwriter who wrote the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 400
million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films. She ws born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while
She is the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List ranked Rowling as the 197th richest person the UK.
King Cross station (London) a popular tourist spot" Rowling's parents met here on a train as a gateway into the Wizarding World,
Harry Potter's wax statue
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BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Can you match each writer with his characters? GO!
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BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Click on the numbers or on the characters to guess it.
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes
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BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Miss Marple
Hercules Poirot
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Mister Scrooge((A Christmas story)
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Peter Pan
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Alice inwnoderland
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J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
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J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Harry Potter
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J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Hamlet
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English Literature
The end
There are many important writers in the english literature.In this presentation you will discover some of them. So, discover, play and learn!
Discover
Links
Matchand play
Watch
Picture taken www.imagenesmy.com
By: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Do you recognise all these writers?
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
J.K. Rowlings
Mark Twain
James M. Barrie
Conan Doyle
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Now you know their names... Do you dare to know important facts about them? If so, click in each writer to know more
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
In 1903, Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years.Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. He died of a heart attack at the age of 71 in his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930
Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.. He was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School,
Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Edimbourgh
Doyle worked as doctor after his graduation and he became .an expert on diseases of the eye but he did many otther things such as: politics, sports, justice...
Click on the house to go back and on the pictures to go to the videos.
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on the 15 th. September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom. She served in a Devon hospital during the First World War,
Marple, Murder on the Orient ExpressThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners ...Her novels have been translated into at least 103 languages Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home in Winterbrook, Cholsey, Oxfordshire
tending to troops coming back from the trenches, before marrying and starting a family in London. During the Second World War she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, and acquired a good knowledge of poisons which featured in many of her novels. She created the characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss
Statue d'Hercule Poirot à Ellezelles, Belgique.
Click on the hosuse to go back and on the pictures to go to the videos.
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, with the character of Mr Scrooge, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born the 7th, February 1812 in Landport, Hampshire, England. He left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place.
Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles....
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers
First edition 1843
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Click on the house to go back and on the pictures to go to the videos.
Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work. Barrie died of pneumonia on 19 June 1937 and was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. His birthplace at 4 Brechin Road is maintained as a museum by the National Trust for Scotland.
James Matthew Barrie was born the 9th, May 1860 in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland.
He was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in
Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up,
Peter Pan statue by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens, London
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances and collaborated with other playwrights.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England and Baptised the 26th April 1564.He was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the language and the world's
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52.. He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in "perfect health".
pre-eminent dramatist. He produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, considered
Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz.
His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda...
Roald Dahl was born the 13th September 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a rare cancer of the blood, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford and was buried in the cemetery at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.
He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
Charlie and the factory chocolate
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born the 27th. January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, EnglandHe was better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.
He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. He is buried in Guildford at the Mount Cemetery.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
One of Carroll's own illustrations
Alice in Wonderland
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it. He passed through a period of deep depression which began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died of meningitis in 1904
Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was born the 30th, November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, U.S.
In 1909 he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it." His prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 in Redding ,Connecticut, one day after
He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, . He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. He earned a great deal of money from his writings
comet's closest approach to Earth.
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers.
Joanne Rowling, (born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist and screenwriter who wrote the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 400
million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films. She ws born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while
She is the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List ranked Rowling as the 197th richest person the UK.
King Cross station (London) a popular tourist spot" Rowling's parents met here on a train as a gateway into the Wizarding World,
Harry Potter's wax statue
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Can you match each writer with his characters? GO!
Click on the house to go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Click on the numbers or on the characters to guess it.
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Miss Marple
Hercules Poirot
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Mister Scrooge((A Christmas story)
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Peter Pan
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Alice inwnoderland
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Harry Potter
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
J.K. Rowlings
Agatha Christie
Lewis Carrol
WilliamShakespeare
Mark Twain
Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Hamlet
Go back
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Books review
Now it's your turn! Do you know how to do a simple good review?¡Pay attention to these examples and take notes for yoour book review!
Click and watch!
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
All the images are labeled for reuse:
This presentation has been made by:
Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
Interesting links :
photos from
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz
THE END
I hope you had a lot of fun in this incredible adventure.
I'll see you soon!
BY: Mª Cristina E. Peña Ruiz