In the world of literature - English quiz

 ^{English quiz}

       ^{" In the world of literature"}

                       ^{(the 11th form)}

Prepared by

Oleksandra Pasichnyk

2023

Цілі: провести контроль знань з теми; удосконалювати навички аудіювання, читання,говоріння, письма;виховувати повагу до літератури народу, мова якого вивчається; виховувати почуття взаємодопомоги та взаємопідтримки; прищеплювати інтерес для вивчення англійської мови.

Обладнання: портрети письменників, конверти з портретами, роздавальні картки із завданнями, сигнальні прапорці, тексти для читання.

PROCEDURE

Teacher: Good morning, friends. We have been speaking about the writers of English-speaking countries for several lessons. I hope you have known about them much already. So today, we re going to have a language competition.

Before starting our competition I`d like to introduce the people , who will decide the knowledge of which team is better.

The jury of  the competition are:__

1.                Introducing the team

Two  teams will take part in our competition,

The first team is « Young poets».

The captain is Diana Chyzhevska.

The second team is « Young writers».

The captain  Bohdan Marunchak.

Teacher: Each team gets one point for each correct answer.

2.            The captains’ contest

The captains should ask questions to each on the topic « Poets and writers».

Examples of questions:

1.               Do you like reading?
2.               What books do you like to read?
3.               Are you fond of reading only Ukrainian writers?
4.               How often do you go to the library?
5.               Have you got any favourite English writers?

3.        Which team will give more correct answers?

12 questions for one team and 12 questions for another one.

Quiz

1.               Who studied in the school for poor children? (Bronte)
2.               Who was born lame? (Byron)
3.               Who was born in India? (Kipling)
4.               Who studied in a grammar school? (Shakespeare)
5.               Whose mother was from a rich Scottish family? (Byron)
6.               Who was born in the family of six children? (Bronte)
7.               Who was born in Scotland? (Burns)
8.               Who didn’t like Mathematics? (Kipling)
9.               Who fell ill when he was six? (Marshall)
10.          Who inherited the title of lord? (Byron)
11.          Who received a gold medal for his work in History? (Kipling)
12.          Who walked on crutches? (Marshall)

1.               Who wrote Jungle Book? (Kipling)
2.               Whose father was poor and began to study his children reading and writing himself? (Burns)
3.               Whose father was a painter? (Kipling)
4.               Who was born in Stratford-on-Avon? (Shakespeare)
5.               Who worked as a teacher? (Bronte)
6.               Whose father was a rich farmer? (Shakespeare)
7.               Who understood the life of poor people because he lived poorly himself? (Burns)
8.               Who was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Peoples? (Marshall)
9.               Who founded a theatre? (Shakespeare)
10.          Who wrote a poem devoted to Mazepa? (Byron)
11.          Who looked after horses of the rich people? (Shakespeare)
12.          Who was awarded the Noble Prize? (Kipling)

4.         Find the names of 11 Ukrainian and English-speaking countries writers

See table.

(Honchar, Shevchenko, Ukrainka, Franko, Dovzhenko, Shakespeare, Kipling, Burns, Byron, Bronte, Marshall)

5. Who is Who?

Look at the portraits of some famous writers of the English-speaking countries and indicate their names.

See portraits 1-7.

(Portraits of Robert Burns, W. Shakespeare, R. Kipling, J. Swift, Sh. Bronte, M. Twain, G. Byron).

6.         Grammar Task

1.               Find the mistake and correct it.

1.               William Shakespeare were born in Stratford-on-Avon. (was)
2.               Burns lived poor and understood the life  of poor people well.
3.               Kipling doesn’t like Mathematics but he was good at History.
4.               Marshall fall ill when he was 6.
5.               Byron inherited the title of lord at 10.
6.               Bronte’s sisters and a brother sent to school for poor children.
7.               Mark Twain goed to California to live there.

b) Ask a question beginning with the word in brackets.

1. Byron inherited the title of lord at the age of 10. (When)

2. Shakespeare had to go London when his father became  poor.  (Where)

3. Kipling was born in India because his family lived there. (Why)

4. Marshal learned to walk on crutches in the field for hours. (How long)

5. Burns lived poorly. (How)

6. Bronte had four sisters and one brother. (How many)

VII. Tell the name of a writer.

.    _ Marshall

.    _Shakespeare

.    _Byron

.    _Bronte

.    _Burns

.    _Clemens

.    _Kipling

VIII. Complete the crossword

The given letters must be in your words either at the beginning or in the middle or at the end of them.

     KI P LING

O

E

T

S

A

N

D

W

R

I

T

E

R

S

IX. An Inattentive Pupil

One day a pupil was to read and retell one of  the extracts from the novel ‘’Jane Eyre’’ by Charlotte Bronte. But the pupil read the text inattentively so while retelling the text he made mistakes. Now you will listen to his retelling. If you hear the mistake, stop me, please, by putting up your hand.

Jane Eyre a big (small) girl of ten, had no mother and sister (father) and lived in the family of her aunt (uncle) Mr. Reed. When her aunt (mother) died Jane stayed in the family. Mrs. Brown (Reed) the uncle’s sister (wife), had three children, a boy of fourteen and two older (younger) girls. Mrs. Reed was kind (cruel) to Jane and her children loved (beat) the girl.

One day Mrs. Reed decided to sent Jane to a school for rich (poor) girls, she asked Mr. White (Brocklehurst), one of the organizers of the school, to come to her bank (house).

X. Reading

Read the text and do the tasks after it.

R. L. Stevenson

Robert Luis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The boy was often  ill and during the cold winters stayed in the house. He had no brothers or sisters. Books were his only friends. Robert read a lot. He thought  about other countries and drew maps of different places, which he wanted to see. The boy wrote stories of adventures on the sea and told those stories to his parents.

In summer, when Robert was not ill, he travelled with his father over Scotland. He saw storms on the sea and described those storms in his stories. At school he began to write stories and poems and wanted to be a writer; but his father was an engineer and wanted his son to be an engineer too. He told Robert that writing poems and stories was only a hobby, not a profession. Stevenson went to the Edinburgh University for some time, and then he travelled in different countries and wrote many stories. In 1883, R. L. Stevenson published his book ‘’Treasure Island’’. Readers liked the book very much. In 1886, another book ‘’Kidnapped’’ appeared, and then other books of adventures came out. People in many countries read and still read Stevenson’s stories. The hobby of a small boy became his profession. But the writer was very ill and in 1894 he died.

To dream (dreamt)- мріяти

treasure- скарб

an island- острів

kidnapped- викрадений

adventures- пригоди

‘’True’’, ’’False’’ or ‘’I don’t know’’ sentences

^{1.Stevenson lived in Edinburgh in a big cottage.}

^{2.He was ill all year round.}

^{3.Small Stevenson read adventure books.}

^{4.He dreamt to travel to different places.}

^{5.Stevenson had many friends whom he told his stories.}

^{6.Stevenson’s stories were of adventures in the sea.}

^{7.His father was an engineer at the plant.}

^{8.Stevenson’s father didn’t want his son to become a writer because it wasn’t prestigious.}

^{9.Stevenson died at the age of 46 because he was very ill.}

^{Give short answers to the questions.}

^{1.Was Stevenson born in England? (No)}

^{2.Why did the boy stay in the house in winter? (He was ill)}

^{3.Who were his friends? (Books)}

^{4.What did Robert dream about? (Other countries)}

^{5.Where did Stevenson travel with his father? (About Scotland)}

^{6.What did Stevenson describe in his stories? (Storms)}

^{7.What did his father do? (An engineer)}

^{8.What did Stevenson’s father want his son to be? (An engineer)}

^{9. Did Stevenson study at any university? (Yes)}

^{10.Did Stevenson write detective or adventure stories? (Adventure)}

^{Teacher: Our competition is going to the end. The results of the competition are:}

^{Jury: ‘’Young Writers’’ has got… points and ‘’Young Poets’’ has got… points.}

^{The winner is the team…}

^{Thank you for your excellent work.}