Подготовила
и провела Клейменова А.Ю.,
Учитель
английского языка
Цель урока: повышение культурного и
образовательного уровня и раскрытие социокультурного потенциала личности учащихся.
Образовательный компонент
цели: совершенствование навыков активного овладения чтением,
пониманием и восприятием текстов и кинофрагментов; углубление знаний учащихся в
области английской литературы
.
Развивающий компонент цели:
развитие индивидуальных умений работы в паре, группе, к переключению внимания в
упражнениях комплексного характера, в разных видах речевой деятельности.
Воспитательный компонент цели:
развитие эстетического вкуса, воспитание уважения к носителям иноязычной
культуры, углубление познавательного интереса к предмету, привитие вкуса к
чтению.
Оборудование и оформление: стенд
с произведениями британских писателей (книги на русском и английском
языках), магнитофон, компьютер,
проектор, приложение.
Ход урока
Teacher: Good
morning, children. Let us continue our talk about British literature. You know
that Britain
is a country that has produced a great number of literary people. You have
already learned about some noted British writers and poets, essayists and
playwrights, critics and diarists who made their country famous and contributed
much in British literature.
Look at the titles of the books and try to guess what they have in
common.
Pride and Prejudices
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Frankenstein
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Love in the Ritz Hotel
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Jane Eyre
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Ten Little Niggers
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
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(Pupils look at the titles of the books and say that all of them were
written by women writers.)
Teacher:
Today we shall speak about women writers who also made a great
contribution to British literature. Among the first women writers that are
recorded are Ephelia (1641-1700), Ann Killigrew (c. 1660-1685), Aphra Behn
(1640-1689). Aphra Behn, for example, is a Restoration playwright, novelist and
poet, known as the first western woman to earn her living by literary works.
There
have always been good women writers, but until the XXth century it was not easy
for a woman writer to get her works published and sell many of the copies under
her own name. Many XVIIIth and XIXth century women writers used male pen-names
or pseudonyms: George Eliot, for example, an important XIXth century writer
(1819-1880), never used her real name which was Mary Ann Evans.
During
the lesson we shall speak about only six of them but there are, of course, much
more women writers who deserve being spoken about.
Teacher: Look at the titles of the books again and try to guess which
one was written by Jane Austen.
(One of the pupils tells the name of the book.)
Now listen to some facts from Jane Austen’s life.
Jane
Austen was born in 1775, the seventh of eight children, in the family of a
clergyman and spent her short life in Hampshire, near the south coast of England.
Her novels describe the everyday life of people in the upper-middle class
circle she knew best. Money and social position were very important and the
only role of a woman of that class was to find a rich husband. Her characters
spend most of the time in the countryside, doing little or no work.
Occasionally they go to London; sometimes they
go to Bath, a
fashionable town. Her novels may sound boring, but they are a record of what
life was like for the upper- middle class in the early nineteenth century and
are among the finest and the most entertaining novels written at that time. When
she died, in 1817, only four of her six novels had been published, all
anonymously. Now, nearly 200 years later, sales of her novels rival modern
bestsellers. Since the age of the cinema and television her novels have become
more and more popular. There have been film and television productions of not
only Pride and Prejudice, but also Emma, Persuasion, and the
Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility. There are Jane Austen fans in all
corners of the globe, and even special Jane Austen discussion groups on the
Internet. Her house in Chawton in Hampshire is visited by about 200 people a
day.
Teacher: I am sure nobody will fail to name the author of Frankenstein.Listen to the information about Mary Shelley and say how her famous book appeared.
(One of the pupils tells some facts from Mary Shelley’s life.)
Pupil: Born August 30, 1797,
in London,
England, Mary
Shelley came from a rich literary family. She was the daughter of William
Godwin, a political theorist, novelist, and publisher and of Mary
Wollstonecraft, a writer and early feminist thinker. Her mother died 10 days after
her daughter's birth.
In
her childhood, Mary Shelley educated herself among her father's intellectual
circle and he encouraged her youthful literary efforts. There she met Percy
Bysshe Shelley in 1812, when she was fifteen. Shelley was married at the time,
but the two spent the summer of 1814 traveling together. In the summer of 1816,
Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa
beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron's other
guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron
challenged his guests to write one themselves. Mary's story became Frankenstein.
Mary
and Percy Shelley were married December 30, 1816. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
was published in 1818, when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. The
first edition of the book had a preface by Percy Shelley. Many, disbelieving
that a 19-year-old woman could have written such a horror story, thought that
it was his novel.
Teacher: Read the following review of the novel Frankenstein.
Put the four sentences in the correct place.
FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley, the
wife of the poet P.B. Shelley, in 1818.(1)__________________ The story is told through the letters of a man called Walton, an English explorer. We are told of Victor Frankenstein, a student from Geneva, who discovers the secret of life. (2)___________________ People are terrified of it because it is so huge and ugly. The poor monster has no friends and feels lonely and depressed, so it asks Frankenstein to make it a wife. (3)___________________Then the monster attacks and kills not only Frankenstein’s friend, but also his brother and his brother’s bride Elizabeth. Frankenstein is heartbroken and is determined to kill the monster. (4)___________________ Frankenstein is a fascinating story because of the character of the monster, which is both sad and frightening at the same time. |
b. However he is killed first by the monster, which then kills itself.
c. This he refuses to do.
d. It is a horror story which is thought to be the original science fiction novel.
(One of the pupils reads the final variant of the text. See the Appendix.)
Teacher: Listen to the story about the Brontё sisters and say what pen-name they used and why.
The
Brontё sisters were
exceptional writers of poetry as well as fiction. Between 1847 and 1848, all
three sisters published novels. They all wrote under different names because
“good” women were not allowed to write: Emily Brontё became Ellis Bell; Charlotte Brontё, Currer Bell; Anne Brontё, Acton Bell.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё is one of the most famous of their
novels. The story tells about the destructive and passionate love between two
children, Catherine and Heathcliff, who grow up on the farm when Catherine, for
reasons of class, refuses to marry him.
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontё is
a most romantic, exciting story about a little orphan Jane, who went to
the Lowood school for poor girls and later became a governess in the house of
Mr. Rochester (a man with a strange history), and eventually married him. This
novel was accepted at once and published quickly, and it has a tremendous
success which lasted to this very day.
Anne’s
novel Agnes Grey tells about the adventures and bitter experience of
the governess in two Yorkshire families.
All
three sisters died very young. The house where they lived is now a museum and
you can walk from it over to the Yorkshire moors to the farm where Wuthering Heights is set.
(Pupil: The Brontё sisters wrote under the name Bell because it was
impossible for a woman to write under her real name.)Teacher: Work in pairs. Each of you has a text with some missing information in it. Don’t show your card to your partner. Ask each other questions to fill in the gaps with the missing information.
Pupil card
| Charlotte Brontё was one of ______ children.
After the death of her mother and her two sisters Charlotte and the three
remaining children were placed in the care of ________ . At the age of sixteen, Charlotte accepted the post of a __________ for two separate families. She traveled to France to study music and further perfect her ______ . Secretly she was writing poems. Her sisters were also writing poetry and soon the three jointly published a book of their verses under the pen name_________. After this each sister began independent work on a novel. Emily’s book Wuthering Heights And Anne’s book ______________ were accepted for publication. Charlotte’s first novel was not a success. Her next effort, an autobiography of an orphan girl, was immediately accepted by a publisher in 1846 and became a sensation among readers. This was her masterpiece ___________. All in all Charlotte Brontё wrote four books. In1847, the year after she completed her fourth and final novel, Charlotte ____________. A year later she died. |
Teacher: The name of the next person we are going to speak about is surely familiar to you. Read the information about Agatha Christie and name the most famous characters of her detective stories and novels.
Agatha
Christie is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She was born in 1890 in Torquay, Devonshire. During her long writing career she wrote over
83 books. Her detective novels are translated into every major language and he
is one of the best-selling authors in the world. Many of the novels and short
stories have been filmed. The Mousetrap, her famous play, is
now the longest-running play in history. Besides being a detective story
writer, Agatha Christie wrote several plays as well as six romantic novels and
a book of poems (under the name of Mary Westmacott).
She
has been writing since the end of the First World War, when she created Hercule
Poirot, the Belgian detective with his love of order- the most popular
detective in fiction since Sherlock Holmes. Christie became generally
recognized in1926, after publishing of her novel The Murder of Roger
Ackroyd. It is still considered her masterpiece. When Chrisie got tired of
Hercule Poirot she invented Miss Marple, a deceptively mild old lady
with her own method of investigation.
Agatha
Chrisie died in 1976 at the age of eighty-five. Her last Poirot book, Curtain,
appeared shortly before her death, and her last Miss Marple story, Sleeping
Murder, and her autobiography were published after her death. But it is
obvious from the number of her books still sold that her famous characters
continue to live many years to come.
(Pupil: The most famous characters of her detective stories and novels
are Miss Marple, a deceptively mild old lady and Hercule Poirot one of the most
popular detectives since Sherlock Holmes.)
Teacher: Not many
people enjoy reading romance and love stories. But Barbara Cartland is truly an
outstanding love story writer. Read the text about one of the most prolific
woman writers of the XXth century and put the verbs in the right form.
Barbara
Cartland is a famous love-story writer and _1_ (known) as “The Queen of
Romance”. She _2_ (describe) by her publisher as “the world’s most famous
romantic novelist” but she _3_ (succeed) in other things as well.
According to the Guinness Book of Records she _4_ (be considered) the
world’s most prolific writer and _5_ ( hold) the record as the world’s
top-selling author of the end of the XXth century having sold more than 370
million copies of her books.
Barbara
Cartland _6_ (be born) at the beginning of the XXth century. Her first
book _7_ (write) when she was twenty-one and it _8_ (sell out) as soon as it
reached the shops.
Since
then she _9_ (write) over 500 books, and all of them were about love.
She
_10_ ( marry) in 1927, and after she divorced her first husband, she remarried
in 1936. In
1976, she wrote twenty-one books and _11_ (break) the world record, and shortly
after this she sang an album of love songs with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra.
That
is what Barbara Cartland said about herself: “I am very organized. I have five
secretaries. I _12_(lie) on my sofa, shut my eyes and just tell the story.
Actually very few corrections _13_(make), I only cut the paragraphs if they are
too long. When I _ 14_ (need) a plot, I usually say a prayer”.
(Pupils
give the right variant of the exercise. See the Appendix.)
Teacher: Her books are considered to be reference books of people’s
lifestyles. From them you can get a clear idea of how people lived during the
forty years at the end of the XXth century.
Sue
Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. She
attended Glen Hills School
in the early 50s and then went to South Wigston Secondary Modern for Girls. But
she left school when she was 15 and changed jobs several times (so she worked
as a shop assistant, garage attendant and in a factory).She got married when
she was 18 and had three children. But her husband left her and she brought
them alone.
Her
writing career started when she was 35- she won the Thames Playwrights Award.
Her most famous and best known book is “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole” (1985)
- a diary kept by a thirteen year old boy- sort of intellectual. The book was
so successful that it was followed by a number of sequels such as “the Growing
Pains of Adrian Mole” or “The True Confessions of Adrian Mole”. The Secret
Diary of Adrian Mole was reputedly based on her children’s experience at Mary Linwood
Comprehensive School
in Leicester. Several of the teachers who
appear in the book are based on actual staff who worked at the school in the
early 1980s.
Sue
Townsend later got married again. In 1999 doctors found out she had diabetes
and she slowly began loosing her sight. Today she is almost blind.
Teacher:
J.K. Rowling’s road to fame and fortune
was a bit rocky sometimes, but her success is sure. In 2000,
the35-year-old author became the highest-earning woman in Britain. She
received an OBE (Order of the British Empire),
a medal of achievement awarded by the Queen, in March 2001. Harry Potter books
have been translated into more than 60 languages. In February2004, Forbes
magazine estimated that Rowling had £576 million, or more than a million
dollars. This would make her the first person ever to become a billionaire from
writing books. Read the information about
J.K.Rowling
One of the most famous modern English writers
is J.K. Rowling. She wrote one of the best books for children "Harry
Potter".
Joanne Rowling was born in Chipping
Sodbury near Bristol, England. After she graduated from
University she worked as a secretary, and later spent time teaching English in Portugal before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland
with her daughter. She currently resides in Scotland with her husband and three
children. Rowling first thought of Harry when she was riding a train in 1990.
She worked on the book for several years. Several publishers turned down the
manuscript before one took interest. And 1998 the first book about Harry Potter
was published in the USA.
Books about Harry Potter have been
translated into 60 languages and distributed in over 200 countries.
J.K. Rowling has won the Hugo Award,
Bram Stoker Award and many other awards and prizes.
Among these 7 books the first is my
favourite one. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a
fantasy story set in Hogwarts School,
England.
Teacher: There
are, of course, a number of other women writers to learn about. Things are
changing now and since 1950s, the number of well- known women writers has
increased. Women writers are now winning prizes for literature, they are given
the highest awards, they are included in the Guinness Book of Records and are
now among the most prolific writers and wealthy people in the world.
British
people are very proud of them and honour them in different ways. I am sure that
today you have learned a lot of new information and will have a clearer idea
about these writers and their works.
Hometask:3. Match the name of the author with the name of the book:
1. Frankenstein
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a. Joanne Rowling
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2. Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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b. Jane Austen
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3. Pride and Prejudices
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c. Sue Townsend
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4. Jane Eyre
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d. Agatha Christie
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5. Ten Little Niggers
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e. Charlotte Brontё
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6. Love
in the Ritz Hotel
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f. Barbara Cartland
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7. The
Growing Pain of Adrian Mole
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g. Marry Shelley
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