Elective subject in 4th ESO: English as a 2nd foreign language. These days the students are shooting a scene of a Shakespeare's play. What for? Coming soon...
Sunday 24 April 2016
Homage on Shakespeare
Específica 4ESO: Anglès 2a llengua estrangera.
Elective subject in 4th ESO: English as a 2nd foreign language. These days the students are shooting a scene of a Shakespeare's play. What for? Coming soon...
Elective subject in 4th ESO: English as a 2nd foreign language. These days the students are shooting a scene of a Shakespeare's play. What for? Coming soon...
Homage on the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote’s famous beginning words go like this in the original Spanish:
En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo…
Twenty simple words that, seemingly, would offer no problem to a translator. Twenty words of common use, with a simple word order. Possibly the “no ha mucho” could be replaced by the modern “no hace mucho”… the rest is not convoluted or intricate; the syntax is understandable, the meaning plain. However, nine different translators give us nine unlike translations of those 20 words; 18 really because we must deduct La Mancha, which has no translation.
Now read the different versions and judge for yourself:
Thomas Shelton “There lived not long ago since, in a certain village of La Mancha, the name whereof I purposely omit, a gentleman…
Charles Jarvis: “In a village of La Mancha, in Spain, there once lived one of those gentlemen…”
John Ormsby: “In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long ago since one of those gentlemen…”
Samuel Putnam: “In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall, there lived not so long ago one of those gentlemen…”
Clifford H. Galloway: “In one of the villages that dot the Spanish plain of La Mancha –I have no desire to recall its name- there lived not long ago an hidalgo…”
Richard Emery Roberts: “At a certain village in La Mancha, there lived not long ago an hidalgo of the familiar type…”
Walter Starkie: “At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen…”
Gerald J. Davis: “Not long ago, in a village of La Mancha, the name whereof I purposely omit, there lived a country gentleman…”
Edith Grossman: “Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago…”
(source: By Delfin CarbonellPublished June 25, 2013Fox News Latino)
Thursday 21 April 2016
Thursday 7 April 2016
Shakespeare 2016
2016 commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare; this special anniversary year is a truly unique opportunity to learn about his works and his time. Some of our students are working on some of Shakespeare's famous plays.
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