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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
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 DANIEL
DEFOE
Go to answers.com
and type
keyword "Defoe"
Read about Defoe's life
and works, then check your comprehension
QUIZ
1
Can you find the
following information?
1. When was "Robinson
Crusoe" written?
2. What was the exact title?
3. Was "Defoe" Daniel's
real name?
4. Which work brought him some
fame?
5. What happened after he published
"The Shortest Way with Dissenters"?
6. How many periodicals did he
work with?
7. Was he young when he started
writing novels? (romans)
8. Which real man inspired the
character of Robinson?
9. Was that man shipwrecked too?
(naufragé)
10. Did he want his name
to appear on the cover of his
books?
11. Find 3 features that
characterize his writing.
QUIZ
2
Read the "Biography"
section again and find the words
corresponding to these definitions
:
word 1 - a person who
writes pamphlets
(a pamphlet is a small book about
a problem of public interest)
word 2 - having no success
word 3 - can't pay his debts
word 4 - a
wooden framework on a post, with
holes for the head and hands,
in which offenders were formerly
locked to be exposed to public
scorn as punishment
word 5 - destruction of a ship,
usually accidental as a result
of hitting rocks or sinking
The
BOOK - EXTRACTS - WORKSHEETS
Extract
from the opening page
"I was born in the year 1632,
in the city of York, of a good
family, though not of that country,
my father being a foreigner of
Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
He got a good estate by merchandise,
and leaving off his trade lived
afterward at York, from whence
he had married my mother, whose
relations were named Robinson,
a good family in that country,
and from whom I was called Robinson
Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption
of words in England we are now
called, nay, we call ourselves,
and write our name, Crusoe, and
so my companions always called
me."
- Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Chapter
One "Start in Life"
Summary
Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman
from the town of York in the 17th
century. Encouraged by his father
to study law (1),
Crusoe says he prefers going to
sea. His family disagrees with
(2) Crusoe.
He decides to run away with a
friend and they embark on a ship
bound for London. During a terrible
storm, Crusoe nearly died. His
friend is dissuaded from sea travel,
but Crusoe still wants to work
as a merchant on a ship.
The second voyage is not lucky
: the ship is seized by (3)
Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is
enslaved (4)
in the North African town of Sallee.
While on a fishing expedition,
he and a slave boy (5)
break free and sail down the African
coast. A friendly Portuguese captain
picks them up, buys the slave
boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe
to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes
himself as a plantation owner
(6) and
soon becomes successful. Interested
in slave labor (7)
and its economic advantages, he
embarks on a slave-gathering expedition
to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked
(8) off
of the coast of Trinidad. Robinson
is the only survivor. He manages
to make it to (9)
the shore (10)
of an island.
Robinson remains on the
island for twenty-seven years.
About fifteen years after
his shipwreck hee sees a footprint
(11). He
later observes cannibalistic savages
(12) eating
prisoners. One day he saves a
young savage whom he names Friday
(13).
He is extremely grateful
(14) and
becomes Robinson's devoted servant
(15).
After many adventures
and discoveries they go back to
England.
VOCABULARY
NOTES
(1)
law : le droit
(2) disagrees with : n'est pas
d'accord avec
(3) is seized by : est saisi par
(4) is enslaved : est
fait prisonnier
(5) slave boy : esclave
(6) plantation owner : propriétaire
d'une plantation
(7) slave labor : travail des
esclaves
(8) shipwrecked : naufragé
(9) make it to : atteindre
(10) shore : rivage
(11) footprint : une
empreinte de pas
(12) savages : des sauvages
(13) whom he names Friday
: qu'il nomme Vendredi
(14) grateful : reconnaissant
(15) devoted servant : serviteur
dévoué
Abridged
extract
- Worksheet
01 
.pdf format
"I
clambered up (1)
the cliffs (2)
of the shore (3),
and sat me down upon the grass,
free from danger, and quite out
of the reach of the water. I was
now landed, and safe (4)
on shore, and began to look up
and thank God that my life was
saved.
I walked about on the shore reflecting
upon (5)
all my comrades that were drowned
(6), and
that there should not be one soul
(7) saved
but (8)
myself. I began to look round
me to see what kind of place I
was in, and
I soon found I had a dreadful
deliverance (9),
for I was wet, had no clothes
to shift me, nor anything either
to eat or drink to comfort me,
neither did I see any prospect
(10) before
me but that of perishing with
hunger (11),
or being devoured by wild (12)
beasts and
I had no weapon (13)
either to hunt and kill any creature
for my sustenance, or to defend
myself against any other creature.
In a word, I had nothing but a
knife, a tobacco-pipe, and a little
tobacco in a box.
Night coming upon me, I began
to consider what would be my lot
(14). I
resolved to sit all night in a
thick bushy tree (15)
and consider the next day what
death (16)
I should die."
Notes
(1)
clamber up : grimper, se hisser
vers
(2) cliffs : falaises
(3) shore : rivage
(4) safe : en sécurité
(5) reflect upon = think
of : penser à
(6) drowned : noyés
(7) soul : âme
(8) but : sauf, à l'exception
de
(9) dreadful deliverance
: délivrance, fin affreuse
(10) prospect : espoir,
perspective
(11) hunger : la faim
(hungry : affamé)
(12) wild : sauvage
(13) weapon : arme
(14) lot : sort, destin
(15) thick bushy tree : arbre
épais et touffu
(16) death
/e/
: la mort (to die
/ai/
: mourir) (dead
/e/ : mort)
Abridged
extract
- Worksheet
02
.pdf format
Read the abridged extract
and find the following information
:
1. Where does the scene take place
? Quote 2 or 3 words
2. Is this text extracted from
the beginning, the middle or the
end of the novel ? Quote
3. How many characters appear
in the text ? Give the name(s)
4. How does the character feel
in the first paragraph ? Quote
5. Does he feel the same in the
second paragraph ? Quote
6. Give 4 problems he thinks about.
Quote
7. What moment of the day is it
? Quote
8. What does he decide to do at
the end of the text ? Explain
in your own words
Notes
quote : citer le texte
(when you quote the text, you
have to use " " : inverted
commas)
character : personnage de fiction
to feel : ressentir
Abridged
extract
- Worksheet
03
.pdf format
Writing paper – topic and
instructions
> Imagine you were in the same
position as Robinson Crusoe on
the desert island, just after
the shipwreck.
> Write your own narrative
in the preterite.
> What did you see ? What did
you do ? What did you think ?
How did you feel ? What did you
decide ? …
> You can use a dictionary.
> About 12 lines
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01
Match the
pictures with the descriptions
QUIZ
02
Can you put the 8 illustrations
in the chronological order?
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