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Dear Teacher, Welcome! The Play Group are delighted to be performing Dracula for schools and theatres throughout Europe in the season 2016 – 2017. We look forward to meet your students and hope that the experience is useful and motivating – in appreciating that English is not just a school exercise, but is very much alive and can be surprisingly entertaining and easy! About this material The teachers’ material is divided – rather arbitrarily – into three levels of English. But please choose the activities best suited to your students. For more detailed material about Bram Stoker, Transylvania and related themes, please visit our website: www.theplaygroup.eu . You will also find informations about the Play Group and how we create the play.

Short of time? If you don’t have much time, try doing the vocabulary exercises and the story summaries (see pages T2 - T5). But don’t worry, we are experts at making ourselves understood!

About the story Dracula is a very familiar story, with many movies, comics, cartoons, spin-offs and variations of all kinds. But although our story is based on Bram Stoker’s original, as it is customary for the Play Group, you can expect some surprises!

Student participation We like to involve students in the performance, but please DON’T tell them – it can make them nervous! We also encourage students to talk to us after the show… if you have time perhaps you could prepare some questions or comments about the play.

About the performance The show can be performed in almost any space (we need a playing area of approx. 6 X 3 metres), e.g. assembly hall or school gymnasium. If you have a light and audio system, please ask your technician to assist us with access to it. We only need a power extension cable (prolunga), six chairs (not the small ones in primary schools) and a clean, dust-free playing area. We’d also appreciate three bottles of mineral water for the three actors, and – whenever possible, that famous black liquid called coffee!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Eddie, Simon, Enzo, Francesco and the team Dracula Teachers’ Material page 2 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu INDEX This packet is divided into two sections: the first part contains teachers material and instructions. The second part are the “P” pages, for photocopying. NB: not every exercise needs 1 photocopy per student. Many exercises work well either individually or in pairs.

On the right, you see the suggested levels for your students. Of course, you are the best judge of what is right for them! BEG: Beginners INT: Intermediate ADV: Advanced

ACTIVITY PHOTOCOPIES LEVEL

1- Vocabulary list P2 ALL 2 - Vocabulary pictures P3 ALL 3a) - Picture story P4 BEG 3b) - Picture story sentences P4 and P5 INT 3c) - Story summary P6 ADV 4 - Making a mask P7 and P8 and P9 BEG - INT 5 - Poster competition COVER PAGE / WEBSITE ALL 6 - Bat crossword & castle P10 BEG - INT 7 - Instant Vampire Quiz ALL 8 - The castle ALL 9 - Bat puppet P11 BEG - INT 10 - Word grid P12 ALL 11 - Jonathan’s journey P13 BEG - INT 12 - Recipes ALL 13 - Life of Bram Stoker P14 ADV Themes and background Web links

ACTIVITY 1 - VOCABULARY LIST < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy: page p2 (1 for each student or 1 between 2) Instructions: These are some of the most important words in the show! The first examples in each column are shown. Ask students to see how many they can complete on their own. Help them out if necessary!

ACTIVITY 2 - VOCABULARY PICTURES < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy P3 (1 each or 1 between 2) Instructions: Ask your students if they know the words for the pictures. Some, like “ship” should be easy. For more difficult vocabulary, write the vowels (or the full alphabet) on the board and invite your students to choose a vowel or certain letters of the alphabet which you write in the spaces. You can make it competitive by dividing the class into two or more teams.

Dracula Teachers’ Material page 3 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu Optional variation The game ‘hangman’. (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) Choose a picture, e.g. picture 19 which represents the verb ‘to write’. Students take turns to say a letter of the alphabet.

When they say a letter in the word, write the letter in the correct space. Letters which are not in the word are also written on the board together with an element of the gallows. The first team to complete the word is the winner. But when one team has its gallows completed, it is ‘condemned’ and loses the game. In this picture the team has correctly guessed ‘W’ and ‘I’ but has made mistakes on ‘O’, ‘B’, ‘Y’ and ‘S’…they are “condemned”!

Answers: 1) a bat 2) strong 3) a bride 4) to drink 5) a coat 6) the sea 7) blood 8) a hammer and stake 9) a cross 10) a hat 11) to sleep 12) a vampire 13) a wolf 14) garlic 15) a suitcase 16) a ship 17) a diary 18) a coffin 19) to write 20) a teddy bear

ACTIVITY 3A - PICTURE STORY < BEGINNERS > Photocopy: page P4 (1 each or 1 between 2) Materials: Scissors Instructions: Students cut out the pictures and place them face up on their desk. Explain that you are going to read the simple story (below) several times, including the numbers. But the pictures they have are not in order, and they will have to re-order them. Give students a few moments to study the pictures.

The first time students should just listen carefully. On the 2nd reading, students should place the cards in the correct chronological order. Help them with any vocabulary.

On the 3rd reading, check if students have placed the cards in the correct order. Go through each picture with the students, help them to describe what they see and remind them of the vocabulary they learnt in the previous exercise.

1. Jonathan Harker works for Peter Hawkins, who sells houses. One day Mr Hawkins tells Harker he must take important documents to a client who lives in a castle in East Europe

2. Jonathan travels by train from London to Transylvania. He takes the contract to Count Dracula who wants to buy a house in London. He writes in his diary about Mina, his girlfriend

3. After some days in Dracula’s castle Jonathan realises he is a prisoner. He sees many strange things. One night three beautiful women enter his bedroom and try to bite his neck.

Dracula Teachers’ Material page 4 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu 4. In a town in England called Whitby, a Russian ship full of boxes of Transylvanian earth crashes into the port. A large animal, like a dog or a wolf, jumps off the ship.

5. Dracula has arrived in England. He uses his magic to bring Lucy, a friend of Mina, to Whitby cemetery where he bites her neck and drinks some of her blood.

6. Lucy is very ill. Her boyfriend asks for help. A very important scientist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, arrives. He sees that Lucy has lost a lot of blood and gives her a blood transfusion.

7. Jonathan escapes from the castle and tells Van Helsing about Count Dracula. Van Helsing understands that Lucy is now a vampire. Van Helsing describes what vampires like and what they don’t like.

8. Lucy dies but Van Helsing and Jonathan discover that she leaves her coffin at night and bites children. In order to kill the vampire in her the professor, Jonathan and the others open her coffin and drive a wooden stake through her heart.

9. Jonathan, Van Helsing and the others follow Count Dracula back to Transylvania. They have garlic, a cross, holy water, a hammer and stake and other things that vampires do not like. In a battle they finally kill Dracula and peace once more returns to their lives.

Answers: The correct order for the pictures is 1 E – 2 B – 3 G - 4 I – 5 F – 6 A – 7 H – 8 C – 9 D

ACTIVITY 3B - PICTURE STORY < INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy: page P4 (pictures) and page P5 (sentences) (1 each or 1 between 2) Materials: Scissors Instructions: Students can work in pairs or small groups. Ask students to match the descriptions with the pictures. Then cut out the pictures and place them in the correct order. Tell them that one phrase has nothing to do with the story.

Answers: The correct order for the pictures (and sentences) is E (3) – B (7) – G (4) - I (9) – F (6) – A (8) – H (1) – C (5) – D(2)

The events depicted in the pictures can be found in the following chapters of Bram Stoker’s novel: Picture E is from Chapter 2 - PIC B: Ch. 1 / PIC G: Ch.3 / PIC I : Ch.7 / PIC F: Ch. 7 / PIC A: Ch. 10 / PIC C: Ch. 16 / PIC H: Ch. 18 / PIC D Ch. 27

ACTIVITY 3C - STORY SUMMARY < ADVANCED > Photocopy: page P6 (1 each or 1 between 2) Instructions: Give the photocopies to your students. They should fill in the gaps with the words provided. NB: Our performance will be simpler as we have eliminated Lucy, Seaward, Holmwood, Quincey and many minor characters. Dracula Teachers’ Material page 5 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu

Answers: a) solicitor b) remote c) property d) hospitable e) prisoner f) Brides g) stealing h) fiancée i) marriage j) friends k) crashes l) wheel m) dog n) earth o) transform p) vivacious q) holes r) eats s) sensor t) news u) deteriorates v) specialist w) transfusions x) cemetery y) stake z) struggle

ACTIVITY 4 – MAKING A MASK < BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy pages P7 and P8 and P9 (1 for each student) Materials: scissors, glue, paint or crayons, elastic, cardboard (to strengthen the mask). Instructions Students decide whether to make a vampire or a Dracula mask. Cut out the face and paste it onto a piece of cardboard. Colour the mask accordingly and add the elastic. Encourage students to bring their masks to the show!

ACTIVITY 5 – POSTER COMPETITION < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy: Cover page P1 (more posters at http://theplaygroup.eu/didpak/poster.html) Instructions Tell your students this is a novelty for 2008, and following the Dracula theme, there is a fantastic, mysterious and horrible prize. (so mysterious, we still don’t know what it is!). Certainly, your students’ work will be published on our website. Invite your students to colour the poster and add details like the place and time of the show. When you have decided which is the best (or the best few), photograph or scan the picture. Email the file to us at [email protected]. We look forward to your contributions! NB: The finished posters can hang in the classroom or school before the show!

ACTIVITY 6 - BAT CROSSWORD & CASTLE < BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy page P10 (1 between 2) Instructions Ask your students if they know the names of any of the pictures. Complete the crossword together. Alternatively you could give them the word list and invite them to work in pairs. Word List: cave, ears, fruit, fur, Vampire, wings. DRAWING OPTION: On the same page is a drawing of a famous castle in Germany for students to colour in.

ACTIVITY 7 – INSTANT VAMPIRE QUIZ < ALL LEVELS > Instructions This is a simple oral quiz about vampires and Dracula. You need only about 10 minutes and it might lead to further discussion. If necessary, pre-teach these words:

Dracula Teachers’ Material page 6 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu VAMPIRE VOCABULARY Garlic–aglio, blood–sangue, onions–cipolla, stake–palo, cross–croce, holy– sacro, mirror–specchio, shadow–ombra, bullet–proiettile, to hate–odiare, fire–fuoco, heart– cuore.

Read out the following questions. (ANSWERS IN ITALICS) 1. Are vampires real or imaginary? (WHO KNOWS?)

2. What do they eat? (MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE, INCLUDING ANIMALS, RATS, FLIES, RATS, BABIES, BLOOD)

3. Do they sleep at night or during the day? (DURING THE DAY)

4. Do they hate garlic or onions? (THEY APPARENTLY HATE GARLIC)

5. What is a vampire’s favourite colour? (RED OR BLACK)

6. There are many ways to kill vampires. Which of these are not correct? (CLASS SHOULD ANSWER YES OR NO) a. Decapitation (YES) b. A stake through the heart (YES) c. A copy of Il Corriere dello Sport (NO) d. A silver bullet (YES) e. Fire (NO)

7. Which of the following do vampires find irritating? a. Holy Water (YES) b. Being hit by a large lorry (NO, BECAUSE THEY ARE STRONG) c. Garlic (YES) d. Sunlight (YES) e. Sleeping in earth from Transylvania. (NO, THEY NEED TO SLEEP ON IT) f. A Vasco Rossi song (QUESTION OF THEIR TASTE!) 8. What is the connection between a mirror and a vampire? (VAMPIRES HAVE NO REFLECTION)

9. Do vampires cast any shadows? (NO, THEY DON’T)

10. Is it true vampires must be invited into houses? (TRUE, THEY CANNOT COME INTO A HOUSE WITHOUT AN INVITATION)

11. Which of these things can Dracula control? a. Storms (YES) b. Rain (NO) c. Rai Due (NOT YET) d. Fog (YES) e. Snow (NO) f. Traffic (NO) g. Thunder (YES)

12. What will keep a vampire in his or her coffin? a. A heavy stone (NO) b. A branch of wild rose (YES) c. A pair of smelly socks. (NO)

13. Can Dracula change into: a. A wolf ? (YES) b. A donkey ? (NO) c. A bat ? (YES) d. Fog? (YES) e. A tree ? (NO) f. Dust? (YES)

10. Ask students for other things that vampires dislike and other ways to kill them!

ACTIVITY 8 – THE CASTLE < ALL LEVELS > Instructions

This is a beautiful castle for your students to make but it requires much attention and planning. Sometimes English teachers work together with arts teachers… with excellent results and it can be a very rewarding process for everybody!

Click on the image (if you are online) or visit our website http://theplaygroup.eu/didpak/castle.html for instructions and download of the material. NB: There are 11 pages to be printed and the file is 4 MB, so unless you have DSL, it will take a long time to download!

ACTIVITY 9 – BAT PUPPET < BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy page P11 (1 for each student) Materials: the (cardboard) tube inside a toilet roll, glue, scissors Instructions: Ask your students to colour the bat elements and cut them out. Encourage them to create different coloured bats. Glue the large rectangular piece around the tube and the head onto the front of the toilet paper roll. Then glue the wings onto the back of the toilet paper roll. Finally, glue the feet to the bottom of the tube. Now the bat seems to fly!

ACTIVITY 10 – WORD GRID < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy: P12 (1 for each student or 1 between 2) Give the photocopies to students. These are some of the players in Bram Stoker’s original. Students should mark the words listed on the page. The words are horizontal or vertical, not diagonal.

Dracula Teachers’ Material page 8 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu ACTIVITY 11A – JONATHAN’S JOURNEY < BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy: page P13 (One for each student.) Instructions: Part a) Explain that the eight shapes are maps of the European countries that Jonathan travels through on his way to Count Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania. Each country is represented by its first letter (e.g. map number 4 is Switzerland and the capital city is Bern). Ask your students if they recognise any of the countries. They should write the name of the country within the map, or underneath if there is no space. They should cut out the maps and place them in their correct geographical order. They can join the countries with glue or scotch.

Answers: Correct order: Map 5), 3), 2), 4), 7) 8) 1) Capital cities 5): the UK : London, 3) France : Paris 2) Germany : Berlin 4) Switzerland : Bern 7) Lichtenstein: Vaduz 1) Rumania: Bucharest

Part b – modes of transport Instructions Ask students to match the pictures on the left with the different types of transport. You could also teach them the phrase ‘by ship’ for the journey between England and France. Check your students know the verb ‘to travel’, ‘to take’ and the phrasal verbs ‘to pass through’ and ‘to travel through’. Now ask students to speak about Jonathan’s journey; e.g. Jonathan travels to Transylvania by train. He passes through France, Germany etc. They can also invent their own sentences, and include the capital cities; e.g. Jonathan travels to Paris by bicycle, from Paris to Switzerland by donkey, from Bern to Lichtenstein by canoe (following the rivers and canals!) etc. Ask students to trace his journey on the map they created in part a).

ACTIVITY 12 VAMPIRE RECIPES < ALL LEVELS > Instructions Imagine that you are a famous television chef, explaining some fabulous recipes to your students. Don’t worry, they are very simple! You are going to hold a cookery demonstration to your class. This is of course in the spirit of Dracula… with horribly tasty and healthy recipes. Even if it’s not possible to actually prepare them in class, explain the recipes to your students and then ask them to invent their own creations. (by the way: Try Googling “vampire Halloween recipes”, there are lots out there!)

Vampire Fangs in Blood ('Fangs’ are the two long, sharp teeth of animals like snakes, cats and dogs.) Ingredients: 8 large Red Delicious apples, ¼ cup lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of sugar a jar of strawberry or cherry sauce Instructions 1. Wash, peel and core the apples. Then cut each apple into 8 pieces. 2. Dip the cut apples into the lemon juice to prevent them from turning brown. 3. To prepare the fangs, cut the apple slices into long, narrow triangles, making pointy tooth-like shapes. Re-dip slices in the lemon juice and lightly sprinkle them with sugar. Dracula Teachers’ Material page 9 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu 4. Arrange the fangs on a serving platter with the strawberry dipping sauce in the middle. Make sure you splatter some of the "blood" over the fangs. Makes 10 servings.

Dracula Drink Shake (a very healthy Vampire drink) Ingredients: 2 cups of plain yogurt, ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 package of frozen strawberries or raspberries, thawed, ice cubes, ½ litre of strawberry ice cream. Instructions Mix yogurt, vanilla, and berries in a blender. (Robot) Pour into tall glasses over ice cubes and top with a large spoonful of strawberry ice cream.

ACTIVITY 13 THE LIFE OF BRAM STOKER < INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED > Photocopy: page P14 Instructions: Ask the students to work in pairs (or threes). Students take turns to read the text out aloud. They can then continue with the exercises either quietly with their partner / partners or chorally with the whole class.

ANSWERS Exercise 1 1. Where is Clontarf ? (In Dublin, Ireland) 2. Where do you think the name Bram comes from ? (It’s the short version of Stoker’s Christian name, Abraham) 3. Who was Henry Irving? (A famous Victorian actor) 4. In which Shakespeare play was Henry Irving performing when Stoker first saw him? (Hamlet) 5. When did Irving die? (April 20th , 1912) 6. What year was Dracula published? (In 1897) 7. What type of story is Dracula? (A horror story)

Exercise 2

TRUE FALSE 1. Bram Stoker was not very good at sports. 2. At university he studied languages. 3. Stoker’s father arranged for his son to work with him in Dublin Castle. 4. He made lots of money working as a theatre critic for local Dublin newspapers 5. Henry Irving invited him to run the Lyceum Theatre in London 6. His first book was published in 1872 7. The critics were unanimous in their praise for it 8. In London Stoker met many important people

Dracula is one of the most famous horror novels of all time. Published in 1897, the book garnered much critical and popular attention at the time of its publication and through the years has spawned countless stories and novels by other authors, as well as numerous theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In fact, Dracula has never gone out of print since its first publication. Many critics regard the novel as the best-known and most enduring Gothic vampire story ever published. Dracula is an epistolary novel, comprised of journal entries, letters, newspaper clippings, a ship's log, and phonograph recordings.

Biography of Count Dracula Count Dracula (his first name is never given in the novel) is a centuries-old vampire, sorcerer and Transylvanian nobleman, who claims to be descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. Contrary to the vampires of Eastern European folklore which are portrayed as repulsive, corpse-like creatures, Dracula’s veneer of aristocratic charm masks his unfathomable evil.

Jonathan Harker's Journal, Dracula, Chapter 2 describes him thus: " [Dracula's] face was a strong - a very strong - aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples, but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor".

Victorians and the Supernatural The Victorians had a great interest in the supernatural and were fond of ghost stories. Some of the greatest horror creatures were invented by Victorian authors. The Victorians were a strange people. On the one hand, they were practical, scientific and inventive; on the other hand, they were much enamoured of mysteries and the supernatural. The Gothic novels that became popular during the eighteenth century carried over into the nineteenth, with most considering Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus to be the pinnacle of the genre. The Victorian world is an excellent place for horror. It is a culture of transition. England is a suitable setting for adventures of horror and the supernatural. London has its narrow, cobblestone streets and foggy nights.

Major Themes Initially, Dracula was interpreted as a straightforward horror novel. Yet later critics began to explore the theme of repressed sexuality within the story. Commentators asserted that the transformation of Dracula's female victims, Lucy and Mina, from chaste to sexually aggressive should be considered a commentary on the attitude toward female sexuality in Victorian society. Moreover, the drinking of blood has Dracula Teachers’ Material page 11 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu been regarded as a metaphor for sexual intercourse. Other commentators have identified themes of parricide, infanticide, and gender reversal in Dracula. Autobiographical aspects of the novel have also been a topic of critical discussion, as a few commentators maintain that the novel is based on Stoker's traumatic experiences with doctors-and particularly the procedure of blood-letting-as a sickly child. The literary origins of Dracula have been investigated, such as Dr. William Polidori's The Vampyre, Thomas Prest's Varney the Vampyre, J. S. Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Guy de Maupassant's "Le Horla."

Critical Reception Early critical reaction to Dracula was mixed. Some early reviewers noted the "unnecessary number of hideous incidents" which could "shock and disgust" readers. One critic even advised keeping the novel away from children and nervous adults. Today the name of Dracula is familiar to many people who may be wholly unaware of Stoker's identity, though the popularly held image of the vampire bears little resemblance to the demonic being that Stoker depicted. Adaptations of Dracula in plays and films have taken enormous liberties with Stoker's characterization. Yet Dracula has had tremendous impact on readers since its publication. Whether Stoker evoked a universal fear, or as some modern critics would have it, gave form to a universal fantasy, he created a powerful and lasting image that has become a part of popular culture.

Vampires in Literature The first mention of vampires in English literature appears in Robert Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797), where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into a vampire, although that occurrence is actually marginal to the story. It has been argued that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel (written between 1797 and 1801, but not published until 1816) has influenced the development of vampire fiction: the heroine Christabel is seduced by a female supernatural being called Geraldine who tricks her way into her residence and eventually tries to marry her after having assumed the appearance of an old beloved of hers. The story bears a remarkable resemblance to the overtly vampire story of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872). In a passage in his epic poem The Giaour (1813), Lord Byron alludes to the traditional folkloric conception of the vampire as a being damned to suck the blood and destroy the life of its nearest relations: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Gothic Dracula is also described as being a Gothic novel. The term "Gothic" came to be applied to the literary genre precisely because the genre dealt with emotional extremes and dark themes, and because it found its most natural settings in the buildings of this style - often spelled "Gothick", to highlight their "medievalness" - castles, mansions, and monasteries, often remote, crumbling, and ruined. It was a fascination with this architecture and its related art, poetry (such as Graveyard Poets), and even landscape gardening that inspired the first wave of gothic novelists.

Dracula Teachers’ Material page 12 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu Epistolary novel Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) uses not only letters and diaries, but dictation discs and newspaper accounts. This style is known as epistolary. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents", such as blogs and e-mails have also come into use. The word epistolary comes from the Latin word epistola, meaning a letter. One argument for using the epistolary form is that it can add greater realism to the story, chiefly because it mimics the workings of real life. It is thus able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to the device of an omniscient narrator.

WEB RESOURCES

Here are some of the links we found useful when writing our show and preparing the teachers material. You will find more on our website: http://theplaygroup.eu/didpak/web_resources.html

The story English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula Italian http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(Roman) http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/ online text: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=773650&pageno=1

Count Dracula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dracula http://www.dracula-in-whitby.com/count-dracula.html http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula.html

Crafts ideas Building the castle http://theplaygroup.eu/didpak/castle.html cardboard coffin: http://www.freewebs.com/halloweentower/propcardboardcoffin.htm http://www.leslietryon.com/mystery1001/lynn.html bat puppet: www.dtk-kids.com

Transylvania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania http://www.turism.ro/english/transylvania.php http://travel.webshots.com/album/555273367opBAcl?vhost=travel

Vampires http://skepdic.com/vampires.html http://www.vampyreverse.com/facts/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires/index.shtml http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire Stephanie Meyer the writer: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ (not for younger students!): http://www.puterdolls.com/vampire/ http://www.quizrocket.com/vampire-quiz http://vampires.monstrous.com/ Dracula Teachers’ Material PHOTOCOPY page P 1 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu

ACTIVITY 3B – PICTURE STORY

1. Jonathan escapes from the castle and tells Van Helsing about Count Dracula. Van Helsing understands that Lucy is now a vampire. Van Helsing describes what vampires like and what they don’t like.

2. Jonathan, Van Helsing and the others follow Count Dracula back to Transylvania. They have garlic, a cross, holy water, a hammer and stake and other things that vampires do not like. In a battle they finally kill Dracula and peace once more returns to their lives.

3. Jonathan Harker works for Peter Hawkins. One day Mr Hawkins tells Harker he must take important documents to a client who lives in a castle in East Europe.

4. Jonathan travels to Madrid where he meets Dolores, a flamenco dancer. They marry and have four children.

5. Lucy dies but Van Helsing and Jonathan discover that she leaves her coffin at night and bites children. In order to kill the vampire in her the professor, Jonathan and the others open her coffin and drive a wooden stake through her heart.

6. Dracula has arrived in England. He uses his magic to bring Lucy, a friend of Mina, to Whitby cemetery where he bites her neck and drinks some of her blood.

7. Jonathan travels by train from London to Transylvania. He must give a contract to Count Dracula who wants to buy a house in London. He writes in his diary about Mina, his girlfriend.

8. Lucy is very ill. Her boyfriend asks for help. A very important scientist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing arrives. He sees that Lucy has lost a lot of blood and gives her a blood transfusion.

9. Meanwhile, in a town in the North East of England called Whitby, a Russian ship full of boxes of Transylvanian earth crashes into the port. A large animal, similar to a dog or a wolf, jumps off the ship.

10. After some days in Dracula’s castle Jonathan realises he is a prisoner. He sees many strange things. One night three beautiful women enter his bedroom and try to bite his neck. Dracula Teachers’ Material PHOTOCOPY page P 5 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu

ACTIVITY 3C - STORY SUMMARY < ADVANCED >

Here is a summary of Bram Stoker’s original novel. Place the following words in the empty spaces:

1) vivacious 2) marriage 3) struggle 4) wheel 5) prisoner 6) fiancée 7) friends 8) crashes 9) dog 10) remote 11) earth 12) transform 13) stealing 14) sensor 15) Brides 16) deteriorates 17) property 18) specialist 19) hospitable 20) solicitor 21) transfusions 22) cemetery 23) stake 24) eats 25) news 26) holes

The story begins with Jonathan Harker, an English a)…………., travelling on a long journey from England to Count Dracula's b)…………castle in the Rumanian region called Transylvania. Jonathan works for Peter Hawkins who is helping Dracula to buy c)…………….. in London. At first Dracula is very d)………… but soon Harker discovers that he has become a e)…………..in the castle. One night while trying to escape from the castle, Harker meets three beautiful female vampires, the f)……………..of Dracula. They try to bite him but the Count stops them. Later, Harker discovers that Dracula sleeps in a coffin in a room under the castle during the day and spends his nights g)……………. babies from the town nearby. In the next part of the novel, we are taken to England and the friendship between Harker's h)……………., Mina Murray, and a young lady named Lucy Westenra. After three men ask Lucy for her hand in i)……………., she accepts Arthur Holmwood, an aristocrat. The other two men are Doctor John Seward who works in a mental asylum and the American Quincey Morris; they all remain good j)………... Shortly afterwards, a Russian ship k)………… into the harbour of Whitby, north east England, during a fierce tempest. All of the crew are missing, and only one body is found, that of the captain tied to the ship's l)………... An animal like a large m)………….. jumps off the ship, which is carrying a cargo of 50 boxes of n)……….. from Transylvania. The dog is Dracula who has the ability to o)………….. He has arrived in England and soon shows great interest in Mina and her p)……………….. friend, Lucy. Soon afterwards Mina observes that her friend is acting strangely and finds two tiny q)……………. in Lucy’s neck. Dracula meets Seward's patient Renfield, an insane man who captures and r)……….. insects, spiders, birds, and other creatures in order to absorb their ‘life force’. Renfield acts as a kind of vampire s)……. and can ‘feel’ Dracula's movements. Finally, Mina receives t)……………. from Jonathan. He has escaped Dracula’s castle and is in Budapest. He is not well and Mina travels to Hungary to accompany him back to England. When he is better the two of them get married. Meanwhile, Lucy's condition u)……………. and she becomes weaker and paler. Doctor Seward calls the v)…………, Dr. Van Helsing from Amsterdam. He gives Lucy several blood w)……………. but is unsuccessful and she dies. Jonathan Harker and Mina return to London. Meanwhile Dracula is creating chaos. The newspapers speak about the disappearance of several small children near the x)……… where Lucy was buried. Harker describes his experiences in Dracula's castle to Van Helsing, who connects Dracula with Lucy; he realizes that Lucy has become a vampire and is abducting and biting local children. Van Helsing, Seward, Holmwood, and Morris, capture Lucy. They drive a y)…………. through her heart and cut off her head. Meanwhile, Dracula has chosen Mina for his next victim and begins to turn her into a vampire. Van Helsing and the others try to save her, but realise they have to kill Dracula to do it. They find Dracula in his London home but he manages to escape. They follow him to Europe, and after a z)………….., they drive a knife through his heart and cut off his head. As Dracula's body disintegrates, Mina is saved. Dracula Teachers’ Material PHOTOCOPY page P 6 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu

ACTIVITY NO 10 – WORD GRID

A R E A I J O B S V T O H S D M H U I M N Y E E E A M F A T A O V N S H S S S F F N E N W E N T A L S U H I M I O H H O K N J S M E E V A T I W R E T V I G N I P S C T R A N S Y L V A N I A B I A A E K A A R E S H M S H I S R N D A E T U D E I D P A B Y N E M O R R I S R E N F I E L D I C U C R H T O A U G S R A O E F A K T Y S P Y C O M I E B O T A L S O M I C L U C Y S N R D O T B M R G S E N L E H O R E K L U K O L T J O N A T H A N N O E N R C U A K S W T I H Y F H A R G

Can you find the following characters and Dracula related words hidden in the word grid?

LUCY, DRACULA, MORRIS, HARKER, JONATHAN, MINA, VAN HELSING, HAWKINS, RENFIELD, TRANSYLVANIA, VAMPIRE, BLOOD, DOCTOR

ACTIVITY 13 THE LIFE OF BRAM STOKER (1847 - 1912) Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland on November 8th , 1847. He spent a large part of his childhood in bed trying to recover from a series of unidentified illnesses. This stimulated his interest in books and he became a voracious reader. At the age of seven he made a complete recovery and became a great athlete and successful football player. At Trinity College, Dublin he was named University Athlete and graduated with honours in Mathematics. Bram's father was a civil servant in Dublin Castle and got his son a job as a clerk there. It was at this time that Stoker wrote his first work, Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland: Collected Works of Bram Stoker, but it was not published until 1879, after he was already famous. In 1872, he published the short story The Crystal Cup and in 1875 The Primrose Path, the latter was about an alcoholic carpenter who murders his wife. The book set a pattern for Stoker's work combining horror and romance, like the Chain of Destiny. He was also a great fan of the theatre and offered to work as an unpaid theatre critic for Dublin's Evening Mail and as editor of The Irish Echo. One evening Stoker wrote an article on a performance of Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. The play starred the famous Victorian Shakespeare actor, Sir Henry Irving (the first actor to be knighted). Irving was impressed by Stoker’s review and invited him to work as business manager for the Lyceum Theatre in London. In 1878 he left his civil service job, married Florence Balcombe (a good friend of another Dubliner, Oscar Wilde), and moved to London. Managing the theatre was a full-time job yet Stoker managed to produce a number of stories. In 1882 Stoker published his first book, Under the Sunset, a collection of scary fairy tales for children, though some critics said it was too horrifying for young readers. His first full-length novel, The Snake's Pass followed in 1890. He began researching for his next novel during the same period, and in 1897, the book, Dracula, was published. On 31st December 1879 Bram and Florence’s only child was born, a son they named Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. Stoker worked at the Lyceum for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for him. Through the theatre Stoker came into contact with London’s high society and also had the opportunity of travelling around the world with Irving’s theatre tours. In 1905, Sir Henry Irving died, and his death caused Stoker to have a stroke, but Stoker continued to write, publishing, among others, The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). However nothing he wrote would ever compare with Dracula, the world’s most successful horror story, which continues to reappear in a wide variety of media forms. Stoker died on April 20th , 1912 at the age of 64.

Exercise 1 Answer the questions 1. Where is Clontarf ? 2. Where do you think the name Bram comes from ? 3. Who was Henry Irving? 4. In which Shakespeare play was Henry Irving performing when Stoker first saw him? 5. When did Irving die? 6. What year was Dracula published? 7. What type of story is Dracula?

Exercise 2 Read the following statements and then mark them as true or false. Correct the false ones.

TRUE FALSE 1 Bram Stoker was not very good at sports 2 At university he studied languages 3 Stoker’s father arranged for his son to work with him in Dublin Castle 4 He made lots of money working as a theatre critic for local Dublin newspapers 5 Henry Irving invited him to run the Lyceum Theatre in London 6 His first book was published in 1872 7 The critics were unanimous in their praise for it 8 In London Stoker met many important people