TALKING ABOUT THE FAMOUS

Grade: 9th

-Hello, children. Nice

to meet you.

-How are you?

 Фонетическая зарядка

What are you going

to be?

What are you going

to be?

I’m going to be a

scientist ( a sportsman, an opera-singer, an architect, a poet, an actress, a

teacher…)

That’s the life

for me.

2 ЧАСТЬ.

I want you to

speak about famous British people. Can you name several of them?

1. Agree or

disagree with me.

A.Christie is

famous for her songs.

M.Twain is famous

for  his poems and plays.

D.Defoe is famous

for his novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’.

C.Caplin is famous

for his films.

J.Turner is famous

for his detective stories.

C.Darwin is famous

for his theory of evolution.

J.Lennon is famous

for his pictures.

W.Shakespeare is

famous for his books.

J.Tolkien is

famous for his book ‘The Hobbit’.

2.Fill in the

gaps.Use the words:

Well-known, was

born, professions, to write, plays for the theatre, was published, became

famous.

J.K.Jerome is a…

English writer. He … in a poor family. His father died when the boy was twelve.

Jerome did not finish school. He went to work to help his family.

He tried

different…And then began …articles for newspapers. He wrote…and short stories.

In 1886 J.K.Jerome wrote his novel ‘Three Men in a Boat’. This novel …and … .

3.Listenb to the

text.Speak about this  famous person  using the plan.

William

Shakespeare was born in Stratford  on

April 23,1564. He died also on this date, April 23,in 1616. His father,

John,  was a dealer in corn,meat,wool and

leather. His mother, Mary Arden,was the daughter of a rich farmer. William  was educated 

at a free Grammar School. Shakespeare left this school when he was 13

and never went to study again.His father had difficulties with money and

William helped  in his business. When

Shakespeare was 18, he married the daughter of a farmer. Soon his three

children were born and he left for London. 

Here he became an actor and only in 1593 he began to write for the

stage. He wrote ’’Romeo and Juliet’’, ’’Twelfth 

Night’’, ‘’Hamlet’’ and other great plays, poems and sonnets. In 1611 he

returned to his native town where he soon died.

[1]What is he/she

famous for?

[2]When was he/she

born?

[3]What was he/she

fond of?

[4]When did he/she

become popular?

4.Guess the riddles:      

-He lived in the

state Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi. He began to work at the age of

12. He became famous in 1865. He was a short-story writer and the greatest

American humorist. What is his name?   

(M. Twain)

-She didn’t go to

school and got her education at home. She took part in the war of 1914. She

began to write detective stories in 1920 and became famous in 1926. She wrote

68 novels and more than a hundred stories. What is her name?   (A.Christie)

-He was born in

Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. His books ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, ‘The Sun Also

Rises’ and ‘A Farewell to arms’ were made into films. He won the Nobel Prize

for Literature in 1954. What is his name?    

(Hemingway}

3 ЧАСТЬ. РЕФЛЕКСИЯ.                    

ANSWER THE QUESTIOS:

Whom do you admire? Why?