Bram Stoker

a cura di L. Giolitti e M. Sillitti
 A young solicitor goes to Transylvania to sell a house in London to Count Dracula. It is the beginning of troubles, both for himself and his dear ones. A group of friends, however, led by Prof. Van Helsing - an expert in occultism and magic arts - engage in a fight to the death to defeat the terrible vampire.
 Dracula (1897) can be considered the last of the great gothic novels in which Bram Stoker revives the myth of the vampire and creates a novel with gloomy and sinister atmospheres, where fear, terror and horror are the prevailing feelings.
 Stimulating inserts about the origins of Dracula, bats, Transylvania, theatre and cinema performances on the subject enrich the book. 
 
 Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Audioscripts - Key to Summing-up Activities.
 
 Un giovane agente immobiliare si reca in Transilvania per vendere una casa londinese al Conte Dracula. È l'inizio delle sue pene e di quelle delle persone a lui più care. Dracula (1897) può essere considerato l'ultimo tra i grandi romanzi gotici. Bram Stoker riprende il mito del vampiro e realizza un romanzo dalle atmosfere oscure dove paura, terrore e orrore sono i sentimenti prevalenti.
 Corredato da dossiers sulle origini di Dracula, sui vampiri veri e presunti, sui luoghi dei misfatti come la Transilvania e sulla ricca filmografia.

Chapter 1 – A Mysterious Castle

Chapter 2 – Like a Rat in a Trap

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Extension: Origins of Dracula

Chapter 3 – Mina’s Worries

Chapter 4 – The Bloofer Lady

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Extension: Bats, Vampires and Dracula

Chapter 5 – The Chase Begins

Chapter 6 – A Sea Journey

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Extension: Welcome to Transylvania

Chapter 7 – Mina’s Awareness

Chapter 8 – All’s Well that Ends Well

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Extension: Dracula at the cinema and theatre

Summing-up activities

Glossary

SUMMING-UP ACTIVITIES 1 What do you remember about Dracula s story? Choose the correct answer. a. Jonathan Harker is going to Transylvania c on holiday. c on business. c to meet his lawyer. b. Jonathan understands that Dracula wants to kill him c because vampires always kill people. c because Dracula wants to marry Jonathan s girlfriend. c because Dracula asks him to write three different letters with different dates. c. The first person who understands that Lucy is the victim of a vampire is c Mina. c Professor Van Helsing. c Doctor Seward. d. The only way to kill a vampire is to c cut off his head. c put a piece of wood through his heart. c both these actions. e. Dracula needs boxes full of earth from Transylvania because c he misses his country. c he can only sleep in his country s earth. c that earth has a particular smell. f. The patient Renfield was killed because c he was mad. c he wanted to stop Dracula from sucking Mina s blood. c he drank the vampire s blood. g. Mina is in danger because c she saw Dracula and Lucy together. c she drank Dracula s blood. c she touched Lucy s blood. h. The three men know that Dracula is on a ship because c they have a note from Renfield. c Mina can read Dracula s mind. c they speak to the captain of the ship. 104 

2 Reconstruct the story of Dracula, completing the sentences correctly by using the given words. You only need eight. contract   hotel   journey   window   earth   wolves   neck   chapel   baby   insect a. Jonathan finds Dracula in a box full of ..................................................... in the ..................................................... . b. Dracula puts his hands round Jonathan s ...................................................... . c. Jonathan is spending the night at the Golden Crown ............................ . d. Next to the three women there is a bag with a ..................................................... inside. e. Dracula asks Jonathan many questions about his ....................................... . f. Jonathan sees Dracula coming out of the window. The Count looks like an ............................................................ . g. The lawyer gives Jonathan a ........................................................... for Dracula. 3 Write your own summary of the novel, using the following words.   Nouns: train, castle, house, document, Transylvania, Dracula, coffin, vampire, expression, shadow, face, blood, wood, ship, river, box, throat.   Adjectives: dark, scared, pale, cruel, white, unconscious, fast, safe, happy.   Verbs: travel, escape, write, die, suck, arrive, kill, take, cut, kiss. Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, went to Transylvania to speak to  (now go in on your exercise book) 4 Here are the characteristics of Count Dracula as presented by Bram Stoker in his novel. Look at the chart and then in your exercisebook write sentences describing what he can or can t do. Count Dracula s powers potentially immortal Count Dracula s limits no access to a house if not invited the 1st time survives thanks to the others  blood loss of his supernatural powers during the day transforms into a bat, or a wolf crossing of running water appears as mist or dust destroyed by driving a stake into his heart and by having his head cut off has no reflection in the mirror repelled by garlic and holy symbols casts no shadow sleeps on the earth of his native land turns victims into vampires has hypnotic power over his victims 105 

Narrativa inglese, livello B1 pre-intermedio. In questo romanzo gotico Stoker riprende il mito del vampiro e delle atmosfere cupe.

Dracula - Collana RAINBOWS

Level B1 • Pre-Intermediate - Collana RAINBOWS

Dracula

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