- •A small world of great people. The day is lost
- •Mark twain
- •Mark Twain’s Jokes
- •Mark Twain and the Guard
- •A Journey with Mark Twain
- •Mark Twain and his Doubles
- •He doesn’t Say
- •Mark Twain’s Answer
- •One of Mark Twain’s Jokes
- •Mark Twain’s Lecture
- •Music — the Life Saver
- •He never Heard Her in “Carmen”
- •One More Funny Story
- •Find out the key sentence of it;
- •Entitle the story;
- •Prove your point of view.
- •Imagine Mark Twain’s reaction to the storekeeper’s words.
- •Is your last sentence close to the original?
- •Whose variant is better? The Author’s or yours?
- •Say which points are really worth discussing;
- •Prove your opinion.
- •Mark Twain is Home to Stay
- •Jack london
- •Jack London and the Editor
- •Try to do your best to attract the classmates’ attention, telling them
- •Balzac1
- •A Story about Balzac
- •Balzac as a Handwriting Expert
- •Balzac and the Thief
- •Jonathan swift
- •Conan doyle
- •Sherlock Holmes and a Taxi-Driver.
- •About Conan Doyle
- •1) You read more willingly;
- •2) Contains much more information about the same incident.
- •Bernard shaw
- •The First Night Performance
- •Too Great a Majority
- •Robert burns
- •How many of them?
- •What are they? What his Life Was Worth
- •What his Life Was Worth
- •Samuel johnson
- •Samuel Johnson
- •What made the woman angry;
- •If Johnson mentioned all parts of speech. Erich remarque1
- •George washington
- •President;
- •Personality.
- •George Washington 1
- •The Secretary’s Watch1
- •An Officer Who Learnt a Lesson
- •George Washington’s Birthday (February 22)1
- •Glossary
- •Lincoln
- •President;
- •Personality.
- •Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday (February 12)
- •Benjamin franklin
- •Benjamin Franklin
- •Isaac newton
- •Columbus
- •Columbus and the Egg
- •1) Well-known to you;
- •2) Unknown to you.
- •Columbus Day (Second Monday in October)
- •Diogenes1
- •Alexander of Macedon
- •Diogenes and Alexander the Great
- •Diogenes
- •Diogenes
- •Joseph turner 1
- •A Story about Joseph Turner
- •1) Shorter, missing some pieces of unimportant information;
- •2) Longer, adding some more important details.
- •Michelangelo 1
- •Michelangelo
- •Murillo
- •A Slave
- •Rossini1
- •Rossini’s Old Acquaintances
- •The Great Poet
- •His First Opera
- •The Blind Man and the Great Artist
- •The blind man;
- •The artist;
- •A person from the crowd.
- •Enrico caruso
- •Enrico Caruso
- •Matthews
- •Matthews and his Servant
- •Revision exercises
- •I ndividual
I ndividual
Pair oral, written projects
Group
*Note!
“A man never discloses his own character so clearly
as when he describes another’s.”
Richter
Характер человека лучше всего раскрывается,
когда он описывает характер другого человека.
Рихтер
Ex.11. If you put the words in the correct order, you’ll get good quotations [3].
«fate, his, man’s, man, every, is, character, has, he, thinks, he, which, amusements, his, by, out, found, that, and, has, he, which, that is, man, a, of, character, read, the, exhibits, he, which, that, characters, three, every, has, man».
Ex.12. Compare your variants to your classmates’? Which variants do you consider correct?
Ex.13. Consult the key and make corrections if necessary.
Ex.14. What quotation do you consider more true to life? Expand on it.
Ex.15. Who do you call a famous person?
Ex.16. Do YOU dream of becoming famous? In what sphere (field)?
1 After the Lessons. Составитель Л.Д. Цесарский.
1 I’m broke – я без денег
2 the train pulled out – когда поезд отошел
1 Balzac [bælza:k] – Бальзак, Оноре де (1799-1850), французский писатель, один из крупнейших реалистов XIXв.
1 English for enjoyment. Составитель Рожкова Ф.М.
1 Пособие для поступающих в вузы. С.Г. Тер-Минасова, В.И. Фатющенко.
1 After the lesson. Составитель Л.Д. Цесарский.
1 After the lesson. Составитель Л.Д. Цесарский.
1 Read and Speak about Britain and the British. V. F. Satinova.
1 Erich Remarque — Эрих Ремарк (1898-1970), немецкий писатель, антифашист.
1 Short Stories and Poems. Составители Л.М. Яковлева, А.Б. Говорко.
1 English Humour. Составители А.Д. Гачечиладзе, К.Ф. Пассек.
1 American Holidays. Составители Вильямс Бренда, А. А. Харьковская, Н. М. Ильичева.
1 Diogenes – Диоген (ок. 400-ок. 325 до н. э.), древнегреческий философ
1 Turner – Тернер, Джеймс Мэллорд Уильям (1775-1851), знаменитый английский художник
1 Michelangelo — Микеланджело (1475-1564), итальянский скульптор, живописец, архитектор, поэт.
1 Rossini — Россини, Джоаккино Антонио (1792-1868), великий итальянский композитор