“ The most famous writers of Great Britain”

МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ

ЛУГАНСКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ

АЛЧЕВСКИЙ СТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОЛЛЕДЖ ДонГТИ

“ The most famous writers

of Great Britain”

Преподаватель английского языка:

Кнышенко Н.Г.

Тип урока: Учебная конференция

Техническое оборудование: мультимедиа проектор

Цель урока:

• развитие коммуникативных умений учащихся: умение слушать и слышать собеседника;
• развитие навыков публичного выступления, уверенности в себе;

Задачи:

• Улучшить навыки учащихся в публичных выступлениях
• Обучить учащихся анализировать, обобщать и делать собственные выводы по прослушанному материалу
• Воспитать внимание и чувство уважения к труду других учащихся

Организационный момент

• Good morning, dear friends!
• I’m glad to see you – our students and guests of our conference.
• Today we are here to speak about famous writers of Great Britain. We shall speak about such great writers as William Shakespeare, Sharlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, William Blake, Charles Dickens.
• After the reports of members of our conference you will make tasks which are based on these reports. Your answers will give me an opportunity to check your understanding of this material.

Выступления участников конференции.

- Report: William Shakespeare

• - Report: William Shakespeare

Reporter:

- Report: Charlotte Bronte

Reporter:

- Report: Agatha Christie

Reporter:

- Report: William Blake

Reporter:

- Report: Charles Dickens

Reporter:

So, let’s begin.

The first reporter is …

And he will tell us about the greatest writer, whose name is William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was one of the greatest and famous writers in human history. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, on 22nd or 23rd, and baptized on 26th April, 1564.
• His father wanted his son to be a well-educated person and William was sent to the local grammar school. One of important facts in his history is his marriage in November, 1582, when he was 18, to Ann Hathaway.
• Studying at school the boy actually did not have any free time. But he spent his rare spare hours walking in the forest or watching the river Avon.

• Those days there were not a lot of theatres in towns and actors and actresses had to travel moving from one place to another with their shows. Sometimes they visited Stratford-on-Avon. William liked to watch them playing. He got fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor.
• He went to London and there he became an actor. At that time he began to write plays too. Shakespeare was at the same time an actor and a playwright. In his works he reflected events of his contemporaries' life. His plays were staged in many theatres, translated into many foreign languages. That made Shakespeare a very popular man.

• Most famous of his plays are Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. They are still popular and you can watch his .plays in almost any country of the world. He produced thirty seven plays at all. He had connections with the best English theatres for about 25 years.
• William Shakespeare wrote also a lot of poetry including his unbeaten sonnets. There are numerous songs written with his poems. He is still most often published author of the world and well known among people. We do not know much about his life. We can only guess what kind of man he was analyzing the legends and a few documents of the time.
• Shakespeare died in 1616, but millions people today still admire his plays.

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

• Charlotte Bronte was born in a small town in England in 1816. Charlotte and her sisters, Emily and Ann had a very hard life, from early childhood they knew poverty and very hard work.
• Charlotte received her education at an orphanage (which she described in her novel Jane Eyre). After that she worked as a governess and a teacher.
• The works of Charlotte Bronte, together with Charles Dickens, William Thackery and Elisabeth Gaskell are considered to belong to the fine school of Englishrealism ofthe first half of the 19th century.

• In her works she wrote about the society she lived in and criticized it. Her first novel The Professor was published only after Charlottte's death.
• The best novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847, is partly biographical. In 1849 the novel Shirley was published. The story is about the Luddits, workers who did not understand that the real enemy of the working class were the capitalists and aristocrats. They thought that machinery, which they destroyed, was their enemy.
• The last novel Vilette came out in 1853.
• Charlotte Bronte died from tuberculosis in 1855.
• The three Bronte sisters are well known writers and their books are published in many countries.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

• Agatha Christie is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78 crime novels, 19 plays and 6 romantic novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages.
• She is the third best-selling author in the world (after Shakespeare and the Bible). Many of her novels and short stories have been filmed. The Mousetrap, her most famous play, is now the longest-running play in history.
• Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

• She published two autobiographies: a posthumous one covering childhood to old age; and another chronicling several seasons of archaeological excavation in Syria and Iraq with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. The latter was published in 1946 with the title, Come, Tell Me How You Live.
• Agatha Christie was born at Torquay, Devonshire. She was educated at home and took singing lessons in Paris. She began writing at the end of the First World War. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920. That was the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, who became one of the most popular private detectives since Sherlock Holmes.

• Agatha Christie became generally recognised in 1926, after the publishing of her novel:”The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”. When Agatha Cristie got tired of Hercule Poirot she invented Miss Marple, a deceptively mild old lady with her own method of investigation.
• Agatha Christie's success with millions of readers lies in her ability to combine clever plots with excellent character drawing, and a keen sense of humour with great powers of observation. Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always conquered in her novels.
• Agatha Christie's language is simple and good and it's pleasant to read her books in the original.

William Blake

William Blake

• William Blake, English poet, painter and printer, was born in London in 1757, one of six children of a hosiery merchant.
• You may have read his poems - about the lamb, the tiger, or his sad song about the poor chimney sweep.
• The strange thing is that in his own time many people thought him mad. Almost a century passed after his death in 1827 before he was recognized as a truly great poet and artist.

• The strange thing is that in his own time many people thought him mad. Almost a century passed after his death in 1827 before he was recognized as a truly great poet and artist.
• His family background was obscure. We don't even know his mother's name. But he showed a talent for drawing early and at 14 he became apprentice to an engraver. When he was 21 he became an engraver on his own account and later married a girl called Catherine who had learnt to draw and paint so that she could work together with him.
• When he was young, the French Revolution took place and he supported it. In England a different sort of change was taking place, which was called "The Industrial Revolution".
• Blake was horrified at the way the life was being changed, with people young and old obliged to work in "those dark satanic mills."

• He was particularly angered by the way the new factory owners and employers used child labour, and in many of his poems he defends the rights of childhood.
• From the age of thirty he worked more on his paintings, making coloured lithographs by a method he invented. His pictures are often wild and strange, with very strong dramatic colours. They expressed the very complex ideas in his poems.
• His great message is freedom for each person to develop. He hated slavery: “black” slavery on the plantations and “white” slavery in the factories.

"Sweet babe, in thy face

Soft desires I can trace,

Secret joys and secret smiles,

Little pretty infant wiles."

Lines from "The Grey Monk“

William Blake

Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He lived in the south of England when he was a little boy. His father worked in an office. He was a very clever man, but he was very poor. Charles had many brothers and sisters, but he did not often play with them. His father had many books and Charles liked to read them. He learned to read very early. When Charles was 10 years old, his family went to London. There his father got into debt (as he had little money) and then into debtor's prison. So little Charles began to work when he was ten.

That was the beginning of Charles' hard life. He worked at a small factory in London, pasting labels on blacking bottles. He had to work in a dirty room with no windows. He did not like his work, but he had to work at the factory for two years. Then he went to school for three years, but he did not learn much at school. He learned much at home, from his father and from other clever people. Later he worked as a reporter to the Parliament and became a writer of short stories.

He was asked by Chapman and Hall to write the letterpress for a series of sporting plates to be done by Robert Seymour. In 1837 he published his first novel "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club". And the young reporter became a famous writer. Then he published novel after novel — "Oliver Twist", "Dombey and Son", "David Copperfield" and many other good books. His books are very interesting, they tell us about the hard life of the poor people in England of that time.

When we read his books, we sometimes laugh, but we often want to cry. Charles Dickens died in 1870. He is one of the greatest novelists in the English literature. Dickens lived more than a hundred years ago, but people in the whole world like to read his books today, because in his books he showed a real world and people of Victorian England.

Задания для проверки понимания материала.

Please, answer my questions

• When Charlotte Bronte was born?
• Who wrote these lines?

"Sweet babe, in thy face

Soft desires I can trace,

Secret joys and secret smiles,

Little pretty infant wiles."

Lines from "The Grey Monk":

• Who is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records?
• Who married in November to Ann Hathaway?
• What person wrote “David Copperfield”?

Now, please look at those papers which I gave you. You must join the person and his

or her biography. Please, do it.

The writer

Part of biography

William Blake

Was asked by Chapman and Hall to write the letterpress for a series of sporting plates to be done by Robert Seymour

Charles Dickens

Dramatist and poet, b. at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, on 22nd or 23rd, and baptised on 26th April, 1564.

Charlotte Bronte

Was born in London in 1757, one of six children of a hosiery merchant.

The writer

Part of biography

William Shakespeare

Published two autobiographies: a posthumous one covering childhood to old age; and another chronicling several seasons of archaeological excavation in Syria and Iraq with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. The latter was published in 1946 with the title, Come, Tell Me How You Live.

Agatha Christie

Died from tuberculosis in 1855.

Подведение итогов.

Выставление оценок

So, our conference is over I hope it was interesting for you. Now I think we have to give marks to our reporters. Let’s do this together. The first reporter was …

Домашнее задание

I want you to write a composition

about your favorite English writer.

Thank you for your work

at our conference.

The lesson is over.

Good-bye.