These are my notes and comprehension exercises for the Edexcel text Sin Noticias de Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza. Please let me know if they are of any use to you. I will add more as I teach this text.
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Name of Resource |
Type of Resource |
KS |
Brief Description |
| INFORMATION | |||
| Before Reading | Word | 5 | Key questions to be asked before reading the book |
| Translation of first chapters | Word | 5 | An English translation of day 9 to day 11. May be of some use to you. |
| Gurb Essay | Word | 5 | Essay on the book including quotes and themes |
| My first lesson | Powerpoint | 5 | Pupils had to find the answers to the TF questions and for everyone I got right I would remove a square to uncover the portada of the book. We then looked at the images and discussed them. I then gave them key words that they would find in a blurb about the book and they had to invent their own one using my key words. This was all before they knew what the book was about. |
| First Lesson 2 | Word | 5 | Synopsis and Blog comments. The key word from the above PowerPoint are used in this synopsis. The blog comments are real opinions on the book. |
| Gurb Information | Word | 5 | Another essay on the text |
| Gurb Information 2 | 5 | From el Rincon del Vago | |
| La Paradoja corrosiva | Word | 5 | An essay by Dr. Eduardo Ruiz Tosaus |
| Literary Styles | Powerpoint | 5 | To look deeper at the literary styles around and the social and political events that could be linked to Gurb |
| Reading Log | Word | 5 | A reading log for pupils to keep a note of key events and facts |
| Vocabulary List | Word | 5 | a twenty something page document with all the random vocabulary for the entire book |
| COMPREHENSION | |||
| Picture Order | Powerpoint | 5 | Put the pictures in order of occurrence from days 9 and 10 |
| Day 9 & 10 | Word | 5 | Questions |
| Word | 5 | Put the events in the right order | |
| Day 12 | Word | 5 | Answer the questions. References with page number given. |
| Days 13 & 14 | Word | 5 | Four questions and Gap Fill Summary |
| Day 15 & 16 | Word | 5 | Complete the sentences appropriately and answer the questions |
| Day 17 | Word | 5 | Answer the questions on the chapter. Correct answers given. |
| Day 18 | Word | 5 | Summary with grammatical mistakes. Correct version given too. |
| Day 19 | Word | 5 | Eight questions with outline of answers |
| Day 20 | Word | 5 | Seven questions with answers |
| Days 22-24 | Word | 5 | Put the sentences in the correct order. Correct order given. |
| Days 22-24 | PowerPoint | 5 | Powerpoint to go with the worksheet |
| ESSAYS AND END OF BOOK | |||
| Holiday work | Word | 5 | Instructions for over the holidays, includes two possible essay titles (Edexcel 2006) |
| Characters & Other Themes | Word | 5 | Taken from El Rincon del Vago Website: Information on and Analysing of Characters, Summary of the book, Themes in the book including weather and materialism, and some questions to consider |
| Personajes | PowerPoint | 5 | Powerpoint with information on each main character |
| Personajes P Version | PowerPoint | 5 | Pupil version with gaps to fill in |
| Summary and Useful Info | Word | 5 | Summary and useful information for the end of the book including characters met and characters turned into |
| Quotes: Literary style | Word | 5 | Useful quotes that highlight Mendoza´s literary style |
| Quotes: Characters | PowerPoint | 5 | Powerpoint to develop using quotes about characters plus essay plan title |
| Quotes:Characters | Word | 5 | Quotes linked to all the characters in the book |
| After Reading | Word | 5 | Outlines themes and offers interesting discussion questions |
| Edexcel comment | Word | 5 | What Edexcel said after the 2006 questions (first ever questions) |