Střední odborná škola a Střední odborné učiliště, Vocelova 1338 Hradec Králové Registrační číslo projektu: CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0245 Číslo DUM: VY_32_INOVACE_03A_02 Tematická oblast: English and American Literature and Language Téma: Charles Dickens´s Work Autor: PhDr. Anna Štiplová Datum vytvoření: Listopad 2012

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CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK For questions 1-9, choose the most appropriate alternative A, B or C to fill each gap in the text.

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK In 1837, Charles Dickens´ first novel, The Pickwick papers, 1) ......... published and 165 years later, 2) .............. of Dickens´14 completed novels is still in print. 3) .................. , it is not the novels alone that 4) …............ the name of Charles Dickens around the world. WAS A) HAS BEEN B) WAS C) WERE A) EVERYONE B) EVERYBODY C) EVERY ONE A) HOWEVER B) MAINLY C) OF COURSE A) SPREAD B) HAVE SPREAD C) SPREADED EVERYONE HOWEVER HAVE SPREAD

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK Dramatic and musical adaptations of his works have been played to more people than 5) ............ his books. This would 6) .................. the author, because he loved the stage passionately and was an enthusiastic 7) ……............ from his youth onward. 5. A) HAVE NOT READ B) HAVE EVER READ C) READ 6. A) PLEASE B) PLEASED C) HAVE PLEASED 7. A) THEATERGOER B) THEATREGOER C) GOER TO THE THEATRE HAVE EVER READ HAVE PLEASED THEATREGOER

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK 8) ............. his lifetime he was a playwright, an actor and a popular public reader. His works 9) ............... the source for thousands of dramatic adaptations in the theatre, in film, on television and radio. DURING 8. A) IN B) SINCE C) DURING 9) A) WERE B) HAD BEEN C) HAVE BEEN HAVE BEEN

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK For questions 10 – 17, use the words in CAPITAL letters to form words that best fit gaps 10 – 20 in the text. An example (0) is given.  

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK Contrary to mastery of Dickens as a 0) …….. NOVELIST, Dickens was 10) (SUCCESS)………… . Today, his plays are practically 11) (KNOW) ………….. . Perhaps No Throughfare, written in 12) (COLLABORATE).............. with friend Wilkie Collins, that fared the best. It is 13) (SAD)............. ironic that such a gifted writer was 14) (ABLE) ............. to turn out a 15) (MEMORY) ............. play. UNSUCCESSFUL UNKNOWN COLLABORATION SADLY UNABLE MEMORABLE

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK It has often been observed that Dickens´s writing anticipated⃰ the style and the syntax of the cinema so much, that his work provided a 16) (NATURE).............. subject for 17) (ADAPT) .................. when the movies burst onto the world stage in the closing years of the nineteenth century. ⃰ anticipate – předjímat, předvídat NATURAL ADAPTATION

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK Use past simple or present perfect to fill in the gaps in the text. There is one example (0). As a stage piece, A Christmas Carol (0) HAS BEEN (be) far more popular in the 20th and 21st centuries than it ever 1) (be) ............. in the 19th. Since 1844, the stage 2) (bring) ........... Scrooge, the Fezziwigs, the the ghosts, and Tiny Tim to life for millions of theatregoers. WAS HAS BOUGHT

CHARLES DICKENS´S WORK In New York alone, over 2 million people 3) (attend).................... the annual production of A Christmas Carol at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden since it 4) (open) .................. in December of 1994. A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens ´most famous books and through stage, film, television and text, its images 5) (become) .................. icons in popular culture throughout the world. HAVE ATTENDED OPENED HAVE BECOME

Použité zdroje: Charles Dickens. Bridge:the English magazine for students. 2003, č. 04, s. 18-19. Autorem materiálu a všech jeho částí, není-li uvedeno jinak, je Dr. Anna Štiplová.