Don Quijote en Corea del Norte-4 (1988)

 Dentro de los materiales sobre El Quijote y Cervantes en fuentes norcoreanas (hilo de 4 entradas), encontramos un texto sobre Don Quijote en un libro de inglés (bastante avanzado) de secundaria. Reproducimos el texto completo: 

Lesson 4

DON QUIXOTE´S ADVENTURES

In a certain village, in the province of La Mancha in Spain, there lived a gentlemand of about 50 years of age. He was tall and thin and had gaunt features. At one time he had been rich, but now he was poor, because he had sold all his lands to buy books (...) 

También encontramos material sobre El Quijote, que reproducimos, en la parte de análisis del texto y ejercicios de este capítulo:

They had windmills in their head = had the dizziness of the head that makes one imagine things.

 

rob me of... cf. The Yankee robbed a taxi driver of his money. 

(...) 

                

GRAMMAR & USAGE

A. 관계대명사의 특수한 쓰임 

(a)    "I will fight a fierce and unequal battle (...)

(...)

(a) "It is but a single knight who attacks you." («네 놈을 공격하는 (...) 바로 한명밖에 안되는 기사뿐이다. »)

(b) "It is I who am to blame for it. (그것에 대하여 책임질 사람은 바로 나다.)

C. 동사 + 보어 + 전치사 (구) 

(a) "They purposely turned themselves into windmills to tease me and rob me of the honour of overcoming them." («그 놈들은 나를 놀(...)대서 제놈들을 꺼꾸러뜨리는 나의 명예를 빼앗으려고 일부러 자신을 풍차로 가장한것이다. »

(...)

EXERCISES

1. Answer the following questions. 

    1) Why did Don Quixote become poor and what kind of books did he read?

    2) Why did Don Quixote set out in search of adventure?

    3) Whom did Don Quixote choose to accompany him on his travels?

    4) What was the first adventure that he came across? What made it seem funny?

    5) How did Don Quixote behave when he came to an inn?

    6) Why did his behaviour in the inn seem strange?

    7) Did Don Quixote go on from one imaginary adventure to another? 


Fuente: Inglés. Escuela secundaria preparatoria 6. Editorial Educativa, 1988. 영어, English. 제1고등중학교 6. 교육도서출판사, 주체 87 (1988)