Homework

I. Antes de contestar las siguientes preguntas lee el boletín 9 por favor.

1. Qué es un libro?
2. Menciona los dos usos de la tipografía.
3. Escribe 3 elementos visuales.
4. Escribe 3 signos de puntuación en inglés.
5. Cuales son los diferentes tipos de texto?
6. Qué tipo de texto es un articulo en un periódico?
7. Qué es un cognado?
8. Cuantos tipos de cognados existen y cuáles son?
9. Qué es un conector y cuales son las funciones?
10. Qué obtienes al realizar el previewing de un texto?

II. Lee el siguiente texto, aplicando la estrategia de previewing. Al terminar, llena el

cuadro con la información que se te pide.

To be or not to be…
William Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. He was an English poet,
play writer and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the
world’s preeminent dramatist.
His extant work including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long
narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been
translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other
play writer.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were
primarily comedies and stories, in addition, are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in
these genres. Then, until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King
Lear and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last
phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances), and collaborated with other
play writers.
In the 20th and 21st centuries Shakespeare’s works have been continually adapted and
rediscovered by new movements in scholarships and performance. His plays remain highly popular
and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts
the world over.
His phrase “to be or not to be, that is the question” is the opening one of a soliloquy spoken by
Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Act III, scene
I.
The meaning of the speech is heavily debated but it seems clearly concerned with Hamlet hesitation
to avenge his father’s murder by uncle Claudius; anyway, his famous phrase is still in use nowadays.

III. Complete the previewing chart with the information required.

Title of the text
Type of text
Write 2 cognates you may find in the text
Write two dates
Write two years
Write two numbers
Write a name
Write a connector you may find in the text and write its function
What is the topic of the story?