Cinema in the Bilingual Section

At the end of this term, the 16^th December, the bilingual students went to see the film “A Christmas Carol”.

The film is based on “A Christmas Carol”, a short novel by Charles Dickens. This film, which lasts 95 minutes, was produced by Walt Disney and directed by Robert Zemeckis. He is the director of many famous films, such as “Back to the Future”, “Forest Gump” and “The Polar Express”.

Here is a summary of the plot:

Ebezener Scrooge (Jim Carrey) doesn’t like Christmas and he celebrates it in a bad mood. Mr. Scrooge is mean with everybody, nobody likes him. He shouts to his servant (Gary Oldman) and to his nephew (Colin Firth). But on Christmas Eve the ghosts of the Past, Present and Future Christmas appear in his bedroom to take him in a trip along Christmas in his life, and making him face reality.

Carmen Ruiz Gutiérrez, Irene González-Pola Yuncal y Sara Taboada Gutiérrez 3ºC

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, 7th February 1812 and died at Gads Hill Place, England, 9^th June 1870.

Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was sent to prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles. He defended children’s rights, education and other social reforms.

Dickens spent summers in Broadstairs, a town situated in the east coast of England. While he was there, he lived in the Bleak House.  Today you can visit a museum about Dickens inside it. Here, he wrote the novel David Copperfield.

Pablo Mayo Seco and Adrián Artime  Rodríguez ( 3º ESO – C )