Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
AMERICKÁ LITERATURA – 4. část
Pracovní list
Číslo projektu
CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0266
Číslo materiálu
VY_32_INOVACE_MoI_AJ_4L_12
Autor
Mgr. Ingrid Moczerniuková
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celek
Používání on-line slovníků a databází
Ročník
4.
Datum tvorby
1. května 2013
Anotace
Tento pracovní list slouží k probírání či opakování látky spojené
s americkou literaturou 20. století. Studenti si také prověří slovní zásobu
a používání on-line slovníků
Metodický
pokyn
Doporučuji jako podklad pro probírání či opakování látky spojené
s americkou literaturou 20. století. Doporučuji používání on-line slovníů.
Je možno materiál také promítnout pomocí data projektoru.
Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
John Updike
A) Decide if these information is true or false:
1. was an American/ British writer of 20th century
2. was author of more than 20/ 30 novels
3. also wrote text books/ collections of poetry
4. got Pulitzer Prize/ Nobel Price for Literature
5. his most famous hero is Harry “Fox”Angstrom/ Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom
6. died in 2008/ 2009
B) Read the poem with your dictionary and explain:
1. Why is it a poem?
2. What is your feeling from the poem? Is it optimistic or pessimistic?
3. Which words are very pessimistic or connected with sad feeling?
4. Which words are connected with happy feeling?
5. What does regrets mean? What do people usually regret?
6. Who are descendants?
7. Do descendants usually imitate anything? Do they usually want to imitate
anything?
8. What does the sentence: ...which took a whole life to develop and
market.....mean?
Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
Perfection Wasted by John Updike
And another regrettable thing about death
is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,
which took a whole life to develop and market —
the quips, the witticisms, the slant
adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest
the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched
in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears,
their tears confused with their diamond earrings,
their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat,
their response and your performance twinned.
The jokes over the phone. The memories packed
in the rapid-access file. The whole act.
Who will do it again? That's it: no one;
imitators and descendants aren't the same.(1)
C) Find synonyms to these words and use your on-line dictionary:
1) cease
2) quip
3) witticism
4) pooled
5) develop
D) Find antonyms to these words and use your on-line dictionary:
1) cease
2) laughter
3) imitator
4) response
5) descendant
Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
Solutions:
A)
1) American
2) 20
3) colections of poetry
4) Pulitzer Prize
5) Harry Rabbit Angstrom
B)
1) Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to
evoke emotive responses.It is written in lines and has a specific pattern.
2) Everybodyˇ own interpretation
3) Regret – death – cease – tears – confusion
4) Quip – witticism – laughter –glow
5) Feel sorry for something we haven’t done or we have done
6) Our children
7) They want to find their own way
8) The whole life we do our best to achieve something – our goal – to be perfect know as much as possible
C)
Find synonyms to these words and use your dictionary or online dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/:
1) Cease - discontinue, stop, give up
2) Quip - joke, jest
3) Witticism (witty) - humourous (ness)
4) Pooled – share
5) Develop - create
Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
D) Find antonyms to these words and use your dictionary or online dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/:
1) Cease - start
2) Laughter - cry
3) Imitator – originate, copy
4) Response – inquiry, question
5) descendant - ancestor
Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín
Použité zdroje:
1. ROBERTS, V. Edgar: Literature: an introductionn to reading and writing. Upper
Saddle River. Prentice Hall 2001. ISBN 01-301-8401-2.
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