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1. Вступление
Well kids, today we are having our classes at the Classic Literature Corner.
England is the birthplace of many writers, isn't it?
Today we’ll speak about books and writes about habits of reading, different kinds of books, favourite books and literary characters, British and Ukrainian writers and their biographies, library rules.
First of all I'd like to say that we study – to get knowledge.
So, answer my questions, please:
Where can we get knowledge?
When do people try to get more knowledge?
Why do we need knowledge?
Let’s speak about the habits of reading (great things, never feel lonely, can easily find something for yourself to read on every possible occasion, never travel without book, before going to bed.
What kinds of books do you know?
What kinds of books do you like to read?
Where can we take a book?
What library rules do you know?
What is your favourite writer?
What Ukrainian writers do you know?
What English writers do you know?
You prepare some information about writers and poets: Who wants to be the first?
Your task is to listen to the pupils’reading and translation, be ready speak and translate some words, words-combinations from the text.
1) – poet’s early years
- he was 10 when he inherited the title f Lords
- first poetical efforts
- took part in political life
- his life has always been and will always be an example of courage and heroism
2) – he could not walk for many years
- wanted to be like other children
- learned to be like other children
- learnd to swim and to ride a horse
- was very kind boy
- wrote about people whom he met
3) – studied at a grammar school
- could read and translate Latin books
- had to go to London and begin to work
- his first work was to look after horses of rich people who came to the theatre
- founded the theatre himself
- wrote the plays for the theatre and played the main parts in them.
- translated into many languages
4) – his father was a famous painter
- he did not like mathematics, but he was good at history
- received a gold medal for his works in history
- travelled very much
- children’s stories about animals
- was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature
5) – he wrote about his native country and about the life of poor people
- he became famous only after his death
- he loved freedom and wanted all people to live in peace and friendship
Now listen to me at and writer or poet:
He wrote the plays for the theatre and played the main parts in them (Shakespeare)
He took part in political life (Byron)
He could not walk for many years (Marshall)
He was awarded the Nobel Prize (Kipling)
He was 10 when he inherited the title of Lord (Byron)
He wrote about people whom met and places that he saw in his stories (Marshall)
He wrote about his country and about life of poor people (Byron)
He received gold medal for his work in history (Kipling)
His father was a famous painter (Kipling)
His first work was to look after horses (Marshall)
I want you to have a look at the screen.
What book have we started to read?
Who is the author of this book?
And now you have been given sheets of paper with text. Read the biography text and be ready to answer my questions.
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte, an English novelist of the 19th century. She was born in a poor family in 1816. Charlotte was one of the three Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne, who all wrote famous novels. Their mother died when Charlotte was a very small girl. The girls were sent to a charity-school. The girls lived at that school in cold dark rooms and were always hungry. Later Charlotte Bronte described the school in her novel "Jane Eyre".
When Charlotte Bronte left school she became a teacher at a school for girls. She began to write poems at that time. In 1846 Charlotte finished her first novel "The Professor". But the book had no success with the publishers and appeared only after the writer's death. "Jane Eyre" was Charlotte Bronte's second novel. It was published in 1848 and made the writer famous. She died in 1855.
famous - известный, знаменитый
hungry - голодный
to published - издавать
poor - бедный
publisher – издатель
Answer my questions:
a) When was Charlotte Bronte, an English novelist of the 19-th century, born?
b) Where were Charlotte and her sisters sent when their mother died?
c) Were children happy at the charity-school?
d) What did Charlotte Bronte become when she left school?
e) What was her first novel?
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