Этап № 2

Тема: Books and Library.

Перед выполнением заданий следует повторить слова и выражения по теме “Books and Literature”. Рекомендуется пользоваться словарём. Все незнакомые слова нужно выписать и запомнить.

Подготовить сообщение, доклад или презентацию на темы: «My favourite writer». Перед выполнением работы повторите лексику по теме и изучите указания по подготовке доклада и презентации.

Exercise 1

Guess who or what it is.

For example: A place where you can borrow books – a library.

1. a book about thieves and police - _____________________________________

2. a very long book - _________________________________________________

3. a book about the history of something - ________________________________

4. a person who writes novels - _________________________________________

5. a person who writes plays - __________________________________________

6. a book about love and feelings - ______________________________________

7. a place where you can buy books - ____________________________________

Exercise 2

Find the odd-one-out. (Найдите лишнее слово).

1. heroine, hero, character, book;

2. encyclopedia, dictionary, romance, textbook;

3. character, writer, author, novelist;

4. dialogue, novel, plot, ending;

5. romance, historical novel, detective novel, poem;

6. biography, atlas, novel, library.

Exercise 3

Read the text. Make an oral translation. After reading answer some questions and translate underlined words. The translation of underlined words

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer (1). She wrote 79 novels and several plays (2). Her sales outnumber (3) those of William Shakespeare. However, her life was often lonely and unhappy.

She was born in 1890 in Devon, the third child of Clarissa and Frederick Miller, and grew into a beautiful and sensitive girl with waist-length golden hair. She didn’t go to school but was educated at home by her mother. Her father died when she was 11.

During World War I, while she was working in a hospital dispensary (4), she learned about chemicals and poisons (5), which proved very useful to her in her later career (6). She wrote her first detective novel. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920. in it she introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who appeared in many subsequent novels (7). Her other main detective was an elder spinster called Miss Marple (8).

In 1914, at the beginning of the war, she had married Archibald Christie but the marriage was unhappy. They divorced in 1926. This year she wrote one of her masterpieces (9) The murder of Roger Adkroyd.

Agatha Christie enjoyed a very happy second marriage to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. Her detective skills (10) were a help to him in his excavations in Syria and Iraq. Agatha Christie died peacefully in 1976.

Answer the following questions

1. Where was Agatha Christie born?

2. When was she born?

3. What do you learn about her childhood?

4. What do you learn about her works?

5. What do the following dates refer to?

79

1920

1914

1976