- Oliver Twist
The film by Roman Polanski comes out in October. At the moment, lower primary schools and some primary schools have received a teachers' kit, but in French. Here is the site in English, and this one is interesting and full of information (unlike the French site!)
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/
*** and the English teaching guide ( 6 pages with the synopsis and ideas of activities, and a contest, but only for the US...too bad!)
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/teacholivertwist/assets/twist_teachingguide.pdf
the first chapter of the book
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/teacholivertwist/first_chapter.html
the best site about Dickens : David Purdue's site, recommended on the site of the film
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
about the book (from Wikipedia)
http://www.answers.com/topic/oliver-twist
to download the whole book (free online)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicOliv.html
from book to film http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1251
***and remember that to study a film, you will certainly find free resources in this excellent site:
http://www.filmeducation.org/resources.html (see for example "teaching trailers")
you can also find interesting documents in this PBS companion site to Alan Bleasdale's adaptation of the book for television. Here is the teachers' guide:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/teachers_guide.html