Презентація "Famous English Writers and Poets"

FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITERS AND POETS

Let’s start a “wish chain”1. I wish you good impressions.2. I wish you witty answers. 3. I wish you to be successful in life.4. I wish you excellent marks. 5. I wish you good health….

Read, translate and guess the riddle. We have friends. They have no tongues,But tell a story;They have leaves,But they are not trees;Can you guess who are. These good friends??

FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITERS AND POETS

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of Passive Voice.1. Comedies with happy endings and tragedies which had sad endings (write) by Shakespeare.2. In 1593 theatres (close) because of the plague, so he started to write poems.3. His short poems (call) sonnets.4. Special noises (create) by musicians to make the plays more exciting.5. All the parts (play) by men and boys.6. New words and expressions (invent) by this genius writer.

On the screen you can see some quotations about books. Your task is to say ”I agree” or “I don’t agree”.1. Reading books is useful and interesting.2. Books help us to solve the problems of our life.3. We cannot learn a lot of new facts about famous people, lands and countries from books.4. Books help us to make new friends.5. Books are useful because they learn us to plan our time and life.6. Reading books is not a popular hobby for young people.7. Books have beautiful pictures and photos.8. Books are not very expensive.9. Books help pupils to study better.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREWilliam Shakespeare is the greatest writer in England. William Shakespeare is an actor and a playwright. William Shakespeare is an author of 37 plays. William Shakespeare is a famous poet. William Shakespeare wrote tragedies and comedies. William Shakespeare is an author of 154 sonnets.

Put the sentences in order.6. He helped build a new theatre called The Globe, which opened in 1599. 3. Three years later he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children.1. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon in England.8. He died when he was 52 on 23 April 1616. 5. He worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays. 2. William left school when he was 14 or 15. 7. He wrote at least 38 plays, and was rich and famous.4. Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London.

Read the sentences. a. Two of William Shakespeare’s children were twins .b. He started writing poems when theatres were closed. c. The Globe Theatre was round.d. Musicians made special noises to make it more excitinge. All the characters were played by men and boys. f. He wrote comedies, tragedies and history plays. g. He invented lots of new English words and expressions.h. His plays and poetry are still very popular today.

Choose the best translation of some well-known Shakespeare`s quotations.1. To be or not to be? That is the question.2. All is well that ends well.3. What is our life? A game.4. All that glitters is not gold.5. A horse! A horse! Half kingdom for a horse! 6. The beginning of the end.7. Much ado about nothing.8 Brevity is a soul of wit.9. All the world is a stage. All the men and women are merely playersa. Життя наше гра, а люди в ньому лише актори.b. Стислість – сестра таланту.c. Багато галасу даремно.d. Початок кінця.e. Коня! Коня! Пів-королівства за коня!f. Не все то золото, що блищить.g. Що наше життя? Гра.h. Все добре, що добре закінчується.i. Бути чи не бути? Ось запитання…