Summer Homework – classes 4B – 4F a. s. 2017/2018
READ IN ENGLISH: 1. The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (original version) Compulsory for everybody. Get ready for written/oral test. It is strongly recommended to write a short summary of each chapter.
2. Choose one of the these books: About a boy, Nick Horby (1998) The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon (2003)
If you like to listen to audio-books https://librivox.org (free public domain audiobooks)
3. WATCH IN ENGLISH - The young Victoria, 2009, directed by Jean Marc Vallée (compulsory for everybody)
- at least three of the following films (one from each section). Get ready for a presentation as an oral test.
Sense and sensibiity (1995), directed by Ang Lee Oliver Twist (2005), directed by Roman Polanski Jane Eyre (miniseries 2006 or film 2011), directed by Cary Fukunaga Tess (1979) directed by Roman Polanski The importance of being Earnest (2002), directed by Oliver Parker
Suffragette (2015), directed by Sarah Gavron What remains of the day (1993), directed by James Ivory A passage to India, (1984), directed by David Lean The great Gatsby, (2013), directed by Baz Luhrmann 1984 (1984), directed by Michael Radford
The graduate (1967), directed by Mike Nichols 84 Charing Cross road (1986), directed by David Hugh Jones Annie Hall (1977), directed by Woody Allen A fish called Wanda (1988), directed by Charles Crichton Four weddings and a funeral (1994) directed by Mike Newell
REMEMBER: Read/Watch more, learn more (See also my tips in Didattica (Language improvement, Grammar)
Write me for any queries, I will be available via e-mail.
Have fun and enjoy your summer holiday! Your teacher Maria Rosaria Visco
See you next year! ; )