Answer the following guestions:

1. How many children were there in Bronte’s family except for her?

2. What profession did Charlotte acquire after finishing the boarding school in 1832?

3. What was her first novel? When was it published?

4. Could you innumerate all Bronte’s novels? Which of them is the most popular?

5. Whom did Charlotte depict in her novel “ Shirley”?

6. What was her pen-name?

7. How can you characterize Bronte’s works? In what style are they written?

8. Have you ever read her works? What character did you like most?

Exercise № 1. Translate the next sentences into English:

1.Шарлотта Бронте- відома англійська новелістка 19-го століття.

2.Коли Шарлотті було 5 років, померла її мама.

3. Хоча Ш.Бронте отримала професію вчителя, вона надавала перевагу

написанню новел.

4.Її сестри Емілі та Анна померли від туберкульозу.

5.Шарлотта була єдиною дитиною в сім”ї, яка вижила.

6.Бронте написала кілька романів, з яких „ Джейн Ейр”-найвідоміший.

7.Усі її романи – реалістичні,де вона зображає буденне життя

провінційних людей того часу.

8.При написанні своїх творів вона проникала в людську психологію.

Exercise №2. Put questions to the following sentences:

1. Charlotte Bronte’s novel “ Jane Eyre” brought her fame.

2. In Brussels Charlotte was employed as a teacher of English.

3. She wrote her works under the pen-name Currer Bell.

4. Bronte’s first novel was published only after her death.

LESYA UKRAINKA

We can’t overvalue the role of Lesya Ukrainka in Ukrainian literature, who together with Ivan Franko and Taras Shevchenko are considered luminaries of it.

She was born on February 25,1871 in Novgorod-Volynsky in the family of educated people. Lesya’s father was a lawyer,but he was pretty well aware of literature and her mother was a Ukrainian writer, known as Olena Pchilka.There were six children in the Kossaches’ family.One of her sisters was married to M.Drahomanov, a scientist and public figure, who played a significant role in Lesya’s life.

Apart from Drahomanov, a lot of other outstanding people gathered in their family.Among them were the composer Lysenko, the playwright M.Staritsky and the poet I.Franko. Lesya was growing up under the influence of such distinguished public.These cultural figures contributed much to her becoming a poet.

Lesya was a very apt child: at the age of four she learned to read, at nine she wrote her first poem “ Hope”, at 13 – her first poem was published in Lviv magazine “ Zorya”(“ Lily of the Valley”).

As we know, all her works were written under the pen-name Lesya Ukrainka,but her real name was Larisa Kosach.

Though she had a marked inclination for studying, Lesya obtained education at home because of poor health.Her first steps in writing coincided with the first symptoms of disease she suffered from- tuberculosis of bones.For this reason, Lesya Ukrainka visited Vienna,Crimea,Georgia,Italy,

,Egypt in order to be treated.