Что ты знаешь о других местах отмеченных на карте?

The town Stratford-upon-Avon is known as William Shakespeare's bithplace.It's also the home of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Bath is also connected with the names of many novelists, poets and playwrit-ers. the poets Wordsworth, Shelly and Alexander Pope, writers Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding spent time in Bath.

3. В вашей культуре

1) Внесите в список некоторых Русских авторов, которые вам нравятся
и места, которые у вас с ними ассоциируются.

Alexander Pushkin St. Petersburg

Lev Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana

Fedor Dostoevskiy St. Petersburg

2) Какие из этих мест вы бы посоветовали посетить вашему
иностранному другу?

I think the best place to begin literary exploration is St. Petersburg. It is the place where the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin lived. He was a poet who wrote many poems which is known all over the world. One of his famous is "Yevgeni Onegin".

Many of his fist poems were set in Tzarskoe Selo, the place where young Pushkin studied. He died in 1837.

In many places of St. Petersburg you can follow his story.

III. Знамеитые британские писатели

1. Что вы знаете?

Каких британских писателей и поэтов вы знаете?

The great British writers and pots are Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, Thackeray, Burns, Byron.

3. Вот еще несколько имен хорошо известных британских пи­
сателей.

1) Вы знаете, кто есть кто?

Somerset W. Maugham is the best-loved short story writer.

Alexander Pope is a well-known poet

Percy Bysshe Shelly is a favourite English poet.

Robert Louis Stevenson is the most famous English novelist.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan is a remarkable playwriter.

Lewis Carroll is an outstanding children's writer.

Roald Dahl is a modern children's writer.

Abraham Stoker is a well-known fantasy writer.

William Makepeace Thackeray is a notable English novelist.

Peter Benchley Whitby is a modern screenwriter.

4. Люди по всему миру ценят своих знаменитых великих сооте­
чественников.

1) Как знаменитые британские писатели чтятся британским народом?

In 1994 in honour of the famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson the major summer exhibition took place in the National Library of Scotland.

Every year the people of Rochester celebrate Charles Dickens' Festival.

There is a memorial table on the house where Charles Dickens lived.

There is even the monument of Sherlock Holmes, the world known character of English literature.

2) Как народ России помнит великих русских писателей?

The great Russian writers are well remembered by the people of Russia. There are many museums in cities and towns where many Russian writers and poets were born or lived. There are a lot of monuments to them. People celebrate dates of birth of many famous writers.

3) Что обычно делают в вашей школе или в месте где вы живете в
честь великих русских писателей?

As I live in Moscow, I may say that my city is the home place of many well-known writers and poets. You can have a literary tour around Moscow, so many museums, monuments, and memorial tables, devoted to famous literature men.

In our school sometimes we have concerts or conferences connected with the date of birth some famous writers or poets, we visit museums, and even make tours to other places where these people lived or were born.

IV. Обзор книг

1. He смотря на рост телевизионного просмотра, чтение до
сих пор остается важным занятием при досуге в Британии. Суще­
ствует очень большое число журналов и книг изданных по широко­
му разнообразию предметов.

1) Какой сорт книг люди в Британии любят читать больше всего?

People in Britain read different sort of books. Literature which is read by men and by women are sometimes also differ. Most of women prefer romance. Both men and women like reading thriller. The third place in literature interests of women is given to historical books. Men prefer modern novels and science fiction better. Books about travelling, sport and business are more popular with men.

2) Найдите соответствующее название для каждого типа книг, которое
подходило бы определению. Постарайтесь подумать над хорошо
известным примером для каждого.

romance historical book adventure educational book fairy tale science fiction novel thriller horror

3) Дайте свое собственное определение для следующих типов книг.

Reference books are the books about facts about anything and everything.

Dictionaries are the books about words of a language with the information about their meanings, pronunciation, etc.

Non-fiction books are the books about hobbies, craft, plants, animals, rocks and weather.

Biographies are the books about another person's life.

Western are the books about American frontier of the nineteenth century.

2. Какие книги могут помочь вам учиться в школе лучше

As a rule I borrow books on history of Russia because they tell me many interesting things about my native country.

Sometimes I take out books on fine art because I think that every modern person should know anything about it.

Most often I get books on fantasy because it's an easy reading.