3. by the Colombian author
Gabriel García Márquez is the novel that made magical realism popular
around the world.
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English Teacher
4. It tells the story of seven generations
of the Buendía family, who live in an
isolated South American village called
Macondo. This is a place where
supernatural happenings are part of
everyday life - at one point everyone
living in the village suffers from both
insomnia and amnesia. Many
characters also have magical qualities.
One man, whose girlfriend is "the
most beautiful girl ever born“, is
always followed by hundreds of
butterflies, and people who die early
in the story often return as ghosts.Romina Domingo
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5. The book has dozens of characters,
which can make the plot difficult to
follow, but a family tree helps you
work out who's related to who. This
brilliant novel, which Márquez says is
based on his childhood memories of
living with his grandparents, has sold
over ten million copies worldwide.
Now discuss these
questions:
Where is the story set?
Which family is the novel about?
How many generations of this family are in
the novel?
What 'magical things' happen in the
novel?
How are the author's grandparents
connected to the novel?
6. was the first novel written by the
Chilean author Isabel Allende.
Romina Domingo
English Teacher
7. It tells the story of three
generations of women whose
lives are changed by their
country's politics. The
women's story, which takes
place in an unnamed South
American country, begins
when the granddaughter,
Alba Trueba, finds some
diaries that her grandmother
Clara wrote 50 years earlier.
Romina Domingo
English Teacher
8. As a child, Clara realises she can
see the future and is able to
predict almost every event in her
life. She marries a powerful
landowner named Esteban
Trueba, who builds her a large
house in the country. The house
is full of ghosts and spirits,
which advise Clara on how to
deal with family problems.
Romina Domingo
English Teacher
9. The story takes place at a time when
political groups are battling for
control of the country - a fight that
ends in a bloody coup and political
chaos. This famous novel, which
began as a letter to the author's
dying grandfather, is considered a
classic of the magical realism genre.
Now discuss these
questions:
Where is the story set?
Which family is the novel about?
How many generations of this family are in
the novel?
What 'magical things' happen in the
novel?
How are the author's grandparents
connected to the novel?
Romina Domingo
English Teacher
10. Magic realism or magical realism is a
genre where magic elements are a
natural part in an otherwise mundane,
realistic environment. Although it is
most commonly used as a literary genre,
magic realism also applies to film and
the visual arts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism
11. Go back to the texts…
Look at the relative clauses in green.
Do they…
tell you which person, thing,
place, etc. the speaker is talking
about (essential information).
add extra non-essential
information.
or
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English Teacher
13. The relative clauses in green…
tell you which person, thing,
place, etc. the speaker is talking
about (essential information).
add extra non-essential
information.
They are called…
DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
14. The story takes place at
a time when political
groups are battling for
control of the country.
People who die early
in the story often
return as ghosts.
Romina Domingo
English Teacher
15. The relative clauses in orange…
…add extra non-essential information.
They are called…
NON-DEFINING
RELATIVE CLAUSES
They are put in commas.
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English Teacher
16. One man, whose
girlfriend is "the most
beautiful girl ever born“,
is always followed by
hundreds of
butterflies…
She marries a
powerful landowner
named Esteban
Trueba, who builds
her a large house in
the country.
24. - Relative clauses describe or provide information about
something or someone that we have already specified.
- There are defining and non-difining (or identifying and
non-identifying) relative clauses.
- Defining relative clauses give necessary information
essential to the meaning of the sentence.
- Non-defining relative clauses give extra information and
are put in commas.
- To choose a relative pronoun or adverb you have to
decide whether it refers to a person, a thing, a place, a
time, etc.
