Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Arthur C. Clarke (E2A/B)





-Answer the questions using the information here:
1.What is the name of the town where Arthur C. Clarke was born? Where in the map is it (go to google maps to find out)?

2.Arthur C.Clarke belonged to the Big Three group, what is it?

3.Where did he emigrate in 1956? Why?

4. Locate that country in this map (use google maps):


-Now answer the following questions using the information here.
5. In which one of his novels is there a space elevator?

6.What was the name of his last book?

7.When did he write The Sentinel?

-Answer these questions using this link here.
8.This is a newspaper article, what is the name of the newspaper where it was published?

9.How old was he when he died? 
 
10.How many books did he write?

11. 2001 a Space Odyssey is probably his most famous novel. When was it turned into a film?

12. Go to the heading “Popularizer of Science” and explain why some astronauts decided to choose such a dangerous job.

-Watch these videoclips and tell me if you can find a relation with the plots in the 4 stories by Clarke you have read so far (Summertime on Icarus, Who´s there, Into the Commet and Let There Be Light):

 


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