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People have fantasised about vampires for hundreds of years. Today we know more about a vampire for example it has pale skin, pointy teeth and drinks human blood.

Many books, movies and series of vampires have today made them more popular around the world.

EDWARD: "I'm a killer."

BELLA: "I don't believe that."

EDWARD: "It's because you believe the lie. It's a camouflage. I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could out run me."

That was a scene from the 2008 movie, "Twilight." It is a story of a teenager named Bella Swan who falls in love with a high school classmate named Edward Cullen. She knows there is something very special about him. He is very strong, very pale, and has very cold skin. She soon knows that Edward is a vampire.

BELLA: "I'm not afraid of you. I'm only afraid of losing you. I feel like you're going to disappear."

Edward lives with a vampire family that drinks the blood of animals and not humans. His family helps Bella when a more dangerous vampire wants to kill her.

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The movie stars are Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. It is story from a book by the American writer Stephenie Meyer. Her "Twilight" series are four novels: "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn."

Ms. Meyer says that the idea for the first book came from a dream. She dreamt about a young girl and a vampire having a discussion in a forest. She wrote down her dream and then made it into a full story.

"New Moon" is about the love story between Bella and Edward. But Edward can no longer safely live in the same town as Bella. She is very lonely and sad without Edward. She becomes close friends with a young man who loves her.

Professor Amy Smith is an expert on vampires in film and books. Smith says one reason the "Twilight" series of books and movies is so popular is that they are not just about finding love. They are about finding never-ending love. Bella has found someone who will love her forever.

KRISTEN STEWART (BELLA)

Born April 9, 1990An American actress.

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ROBERT PATTISON (EDWARD)

Born 13 May 1986)An English actor, model, musician and producer.

TAYLOR LAUTNER ( JACOB)

Born February 11, 1992An American actor, voice actor, model, and martial artist.

1. Translate the text below

"I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could out run me."

2. How did Ms Meyer get her idea for the story?

3. What does the titels of the books mean in Swedish?

("Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn.")

4. Why does Ms Amy Smith’s think that these books are so popular? Do you think she is right?

5. Translate the words below to Swedish.

6. Translate these sentences to English.

A) Han var blek och hade spetsiga tänder.

B) Det var en scen från filmen

C) En familj som dricker blod från djur

D) Hon skrev ned sin dröm.

E) Hon blir nära vän med en ung man.

F) Bella har hittat någon som kommer att älska henne för alltid

English Swedish

pale

pointy

vampire

skin

human

dangerous

writer

safely

lonely

reason

The "Twilight" series is not the story about vampires that you can watch.

The American television show "True Blood" is about adult people." It is about a young woman named Sookie Stackhouse who lives in the small town in Louisiana. She falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire who lives in the town.

The vampires are not liked by the people in this television program. They are fighting for the same rights as humans. Sookie's friends are not very happy that she is interested in a vampire.

SAM: "Sookie, you're being a very stupid girl."

SOOKIE: "Who asked you? I can take care of myself."

SAM: "I don't think so. Matt could have seriously cut you up last night."

SOOKIE: "How do you know what Matt would have done?"

SAM: "Now you're setting up a date with a vampire! What do you have, a death wish?"

SOOKIE: "No, I don't have a death wish. I just happen to think that judging an entire group of people based on the actions of a few individuals within that group is morally wrong."

SAM: "Well, I will not let you put yourself or this bar in danger. I won't."

Alan Ball made "True Blood." He says that one reason for why the show is so popular is that men and women find something they like in it. He says women like the love scenes. And he says men like the sex and the action

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A) Translate these sentences to English. You find clues in the text .

1. Kvinnor och män hittar något de gillar i den2. Vampyrerna slåss för samma rättigheter som människorna.3. Det handlar om vuxna människor.4. Sockie’s vänner är inte glad att hon är intresserad av en vampyr

B) Translate this quote to Swedish: "Sookie, you're being a very stupid girl.”

"Who asked you? I can take care of myself."

C) Translate the characteristics to Swedish! Which of these characteristics would you like to have? You can pick 5. Write them down and motivate why you have picked them!

Vampire characteristics:

• Has pale skin • Get sunburned by the sunlight. • Good night vision • Very strong. • Does not have to sleep much • Heals quickly • Needs blood to stay healthy • Intelligent. • Changes mood quickly • Can feel others feelings from a distance • Can read minds • Extremely good hearing • Extremely good at sensing smells • Extremely fast • Lives forever if someone doesn’t kill them.

D)If you could choose between being a vampire and being a human what would you choose and why? Write in Swedish first and then translate it to English! Save both the Swedish and the English version.

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THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

Summary:

Four months after the car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy are still trying to live their lives without being so sad. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and has many friends and is good at school, but now she tries to hide her sadness from the world.

When the school year begins, Elena and her friends are interested in a beautiful and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore.

Stefan and Elena like to be with each other and Elena does not know that Stefan is an old vampire, who tries to live among humans. His brother Damon is the more brutal vampire.

Now these two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - are at war. They both like Elena want to get to know her friends, family and all the people of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia.

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1. Translate these sentences to Swedish!

They are trying to live their lives

She tries to hide her sadness.

Stefan and Elena are interested in each other

Damon is a more brutal vampire.

All the people of the small town.

2. How is Stephan described i the text? Write it in English as well as Swedish!

More than one hundred years ago, vampires became popular after the Irish writer Bram Stoker's book "Dracula." The book was published in Britain in eighteen ninety-seven.

Mr. Stoker did not come up with the idea of a vampire. Cultures around the world have their own stories about vampires. And, Mr. Stoker was not the first person to write a story about a vampire.

Mr. Stoker had heard of an evil man who lived in fifteenth century (1400 talets) Romania. Vlad the Impaler was his name and they said he had killed 10 000 people. He then wrote the book about Dracula.

The story begins with a young English man named Jonathan Harker.

He is sent to Transylvania to help a man named Count Dracula to buy a house in Britain. But his visit does not go as planned. Harker becomes a prisoner in the vampire's large home.

After meeting Dracula's vampire brides, Harker has to escape (fly). The horror story continues (fortsätter) when Dracula travels to England. Soon, Jonathan Harker's wife Mina becomes one of his victims (offer).

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1.In what country was the first book about Dracula published?

2.Who was Vlad the Impaler?

3.Översätt fraserna till svenska:

The horror story continues

Cultures around the world have their own stories about vampires

After meeting Dracula's vampire brides, Harker has to escape (fly)

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