Literary hour "My heart's in the Highlands"

Открытое мероприятие для 7-х классов

«My Heart's in the Highlands».

Цель мероприятия:

Познакомить учащихся с жизнью и творчеством великого шотландского поэта Роберта Бернса,

яркого представителя мировой английской литературы 1 8-ого века.

Задачи мероприятия:

1. Учить школьников выступать на английском языке: не бояться аудитории, уметь читать стихи

наизусть, инсценировать, понимать английскую речь.

2. Развивать интерес к предмету через внеклассную работу, используя связь английского языка с

другими предметами: литературой, информатикой и музыкой; активизировать мыслительную

деятельность, развивать память и внимание.

3. Воспитывать интерес к иностранной культуре и литературе через положительные эмоции

восприятия и удовлетворения от результатов проделанной работы.

Технические средства:

Аудиокассеты с классической музыкой Григ «Утро», Глюк. Мелодия из оперы «Орфей и Эвредика», Бах «Шутка»; электронная презентация «Виды Шотландии».

Оформление кабинета:

Эмблема вечера, уголок шотландской избы (стол со скатертью, свеча, портрет Р.Бернса) -инсценировка лирического стихотворения, стенгазета про Р.Бернса, памятки о вечере с эмблемой.

Ход мероприятия.

Звучит музыка Грига. Приветствие всем участникам вечера. Учащиеся 7 «А» класса рассказывают биографию поэта.

Irina:

The greatest poet of the 18th century was Robert Burns. His popularity in Scotland is very great. The Scottish bard was born in a clay cottage in the village of Alloway. His father was a poor farmer, but a man who valued knowledge. It was from his father that Robert received his learning and his love for books. His mother had a beautiful voice and taught Robert old Scottish songs and ballads which he later turned into his best poems.

Nikita:

Robert Burns had no regular schooling. But when Robert was seven, his father engaged a teacher to educate him and his brother Gilbert. John Murdoch, an eighteen year-old scholar, was a very enthusiastic teacher. He taught Robert, who was his favourite, many subjects, French and literature among them. However, Robert could not afford much time for his studies. His father wanted to try his hand in farming and Robert had to help him on the farm. At the age of thirteen he had to take over from his father most of the work on the farm as his father was growing old.

Dasha:

Those were hard times for Robert, and he had to leave school. Nearly all life Robert Burns worked

on his small piece of land. At fifteen he did most of the work on the farm, his father's health being very poor. And as Burns followed the plough he whistled and sang. He made up his own words to the old folk tunes of Scotland that he knew so well. In his songs he spoke of what he saw - of the woods and fields and valleys, of the deer and the skylark and the small field-mouse, of the farmer's poor cottage.

Ildar:

Burns wrote his first verses when he was fifteen. Very soon his poems became popular among his friends and acquaintances, hi 1785 he met a girl, who became the great love of all his life and inspirer of his numerous lyrical verses. Jean had a wonderful voice and knew a lot of old melodies to which Burns composed his songs.

Slava:

In 1786 Burns published his first book under the title of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. The book was a great success. He was invited to Edinburgh. He conquered the Edinburgh society by his wit and manners as much as by poetry. In Edinburgh he was often advised to write in standard English on noble themes, but he refused. He wanted to write poetry about the people and for the people. While in Edinburgh Burns got acquainted with some enthusiasts of Scottish songs and ballads and became engaged in collecting the treasures of the Scottish folklore.

Olga:

He travelled about Scotland collecting popular songs. After his father's death he did not give up farming and worked hard to earn his living. In 1791 Burns got the post of excise officer and moved to Dumfries. The last years of his life were very hard. The hard daily work on the farm, the constant starvation and privations finally undermined Burns's health. On July 21, 1796, at the age of 37, Burns died. His body rests in a Mausoleum in Dumfries. The house in Alloway, where he was born, has now been restored. Every year thousands of people from all over the world come there to pay homage to the great poet.

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Электронная презентация под классическую музыку.

Liza:

Robert Burns's poetry was inspired by his deep love for his motherland, for its history and folklore. His beautiful poem My Heart's in the Highlands, full of vivid colourful descriptions, is a hymn to the beauty of Scotland's nature and to its glorious past. He admires the green valleys, "mountains high cover'd with snow, and wild hanging woods". He calls his country "the birthplace of valour, the country of worth".

Olga:

My Heart's in the Highlands

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer,

A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe -

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of valour, the country of worth! Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green valleys below, Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!

Adieu for a while, I can never forget thee,

The land of my fathers, the soil of the free,

I sigh for the hour that shall bid me retrace

The path of my childhood, my own native place.

Angelina:

In Burns's poems nature forms a part of people's life, though he does not personify it. Bums is inspired by deep love for Scotland, its history and folklore. Address to Edinburgh is a hymn to the common Scottish people:

Katya:

The sons, Edina, social, kind,

With open arms the strangers hail;

Their views enlarg'd their lib'ral mind.

Above the narrow rural vale;

Attentive still to sorrow's wail,

Or modest merit's silent claim:

And never may their sources fail!

And never envy blot their name!

Liza:

Burns was a remarkable lyric poet. His lyrical poems are known for their beauty, truthfulness, freshness, depth of feelings and their lovely melody. Among his best lyrics is Oh, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose.

Alexandra:

O my Love's like a red, red rose

That's newly sprung in June;

O my Love's like the melody

That's sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in love am I,

And I will love thee still, my dear,

Till all the seas go dry.

Till all the seas go dry my dear,

And the rocks melt with the sun;

O I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Love!

And fare thee well a while!

And I will come again, my Love,

Though it were ten thousand mile!

Liza:

Many of Burns's lyrical poems have been put to music and are sung by all English-speaking people. One of them is AuldLang Syne, a beautiful song of brotherhood and friendship. (выходят все участники вечера и исполняют песню)

Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days of lang syne!

Chorus

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For auld lang syne,

We'll take a cup of kindness yet

For auld lang syne!

We two have wandered in the brook From morning sun till dine,

But seas between us broad have roared Since auld lang syne.

And there's a hand, my trusty friend, And give us a hand of thine;

And we'll take a right hearty drink.

For auld lang syne.

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