WELCOME TO THIS COURSE
Learning a foreign language is learning a new culture. For that reason it is highly important that a Modern Languages student gets to know the most important historical and socio cultural aspects that developed the creation and evolution of the language and civilization of the foreign country. Therefore, it becomes an urgent objective for a professional to understand the events that made a mark in the history of the United Kingdom, and to the world, in aspects such as politics, economics, and arts. This will allow the student to analyze national and international events from a historical, cultural, and critical point of view.
TASKS
1. To analyze critically the historical, social, and political which have helped shape British culture.
2. To establish connections between different literary works from the UK and the socio cultural contexts in which they were born.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
1. Who was Shakespeare?
2. Why was he such important?
3. What are his most famous works?
SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15555
4,What do you think this poem means?
5.Why?
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ReplyDelete1. William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.
ReplyDelete2. He is considered the most important writer of the English language and one of the most famous of the universal literature beacuse progress contributed to the literature.
3. Hamlet, Otelo, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream and Romeo and Juliet.
4. For me it means that something doesn't end if continuity is given. Otherwise you will end up.
5. Becuse the things that are worth having in life should be caring for that doesn't eventually. For example the love.
1.William Shakespeare was born in Stratford on April 23, 1564. He was an English poet and playwright,
ReplyDelete2. Because he is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
3. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, the sonnets.
4. I think the sonnet has something to do with love,
5. Because he talks about comparing someone to a summers day. For that reason I think the sonnet was written to someone
1 William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
ReplyDelete2 Shakespeare was very importat because he help in English grammar, spelling and pronunciation were less standardised than they are now, and his use of language helped shape modern English.
3 Otelo, Hamlet, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream and Romeo and Juliet.
4 In my opinion, it is referent when someone is feeling in love.
5 Because i think that when someone feeling to love for the other person the life is most beautiful ant it has a meaning.
1) William Shakespeare was playwright, poet and actor English.
ReplyDelete2) He was considered the most important writer of the English language and one of the most famous in literature.
3)Macbeth, Romeo and Julieta, Hamlet, Otello, the sonnets among others.
4)I believe that is for someone that love and compare it with a beautiful day.
5)I think he tells someone that love.
1) William Shakespeare was a dramatist and famous poet.
ReplyDelete2) Because he can invent new words and he changed the context of the literature through his letters and poems.
3) Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Otelo, Macbeth.
4) I think that poem it´s about someone that is loved and the autor make a comparison between an a summer´s day.
5) Because the autor probably enjoy a summer´s day and stay time with his loved is like a summer´s day.
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1. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire he was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Delete2. William Shakespeare has written some of the best lyrical literary works ever to have been written. His style and abilities have been unmatched by any other author. One of the reasons for the success of his plays has been the choices of material. Shakespeare used drama and comedy in his writings.
3. Comedy: All's Well That Ends Well
History: Henry IV, part 1
Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet
Poetry; The Sonnets and others….
4. For me this poem means about LOVE but not only in love as a word it is also about how It can be permanent towards all live although It dies.
5. Why? maybe because he was writing to his love and he wanted to express to her that although she dies did not matter because towards time the love can be permanent with his poem.
1. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
ReplyDelete2. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist,Shakespeare transformed European theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through characterization, plot, language and genre
3. Othello, The Moor of Venice,Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,Macbeth
4. I think that it refers to a beautiful,intelligent girl. Since a summer day is warm sweet sometimes with a cool breeze it sorta sounds like a smart beautiful girl.
1. He was an English poet and playwright, who is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language.
ReplyDelete2. He had some very interesting writing techniques, which one has to learn to better understand his writing. Is important read a few to better understanding Shakespeare and present a few passages from his works so you can have a better idea of the writing of this very important English writer.
3. Here are some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays: Comedies (Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Two Gentlemen of Veron)- Tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, and King Lear)
4. It is a sonnet about love, it speaks of a beloved, happy and beautiful person. Is a comparison with a beautiful summer day ago.
5. Because he is talking to compare a loved one with a summer day and make the most of your time.