ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ К
УРОКУ
"ENGLISH AND
AMERICAN WRITERS"
MARK TWAIN
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)was born in 1835.
Mark Twain- it is his pen name. He was the sixth
of seven children. At the age of 4‚ Sam and his
family moved to the small town of Hannibal and
lived in the state of the Missouri on the banks of
the Mississippi.
In 1847‚ when Sam was 11‚ his father died. He
left school and began to work as a printer’s
apprentice for a newspaper. His job allowed Sam
to read the news of the world.
At 18‚ Sam headed east to New York City and Philadelphia‚
where he worked on several different newspapers and found
some success at writing articles.
For the next17 years‚ Sam‚ Livy, his wife, and
their three daughters lived in the Hartford
home. During those years Mark Twain wrote
« Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn”.
with whom he met Mark Twain in childhood. He combined in a
unique image examples boys — Tom Sawyer. He embodies everything
good that happens-Lo with a writer in his childhood
Tom Sawyer
Марк Твен
1835 - 1910
Дом-музей Марка Твена в г.Ганнибал
Памятник Тому Сойеру и Геку Финну в американском городке Ганнибал
(штат Миссури). Скульптор Ф.Хаббард. 1926 год.
АФОРИЗМЫ М.ТВЕНА
Англичанин – человек, который делает
что-либо, потому что так делали раньше.
Американец – человек, который делает
что-либо, потому что так раньше не
делали.
Марк Твен.
Скажи мне, кто твой друг,
и я скажу, кто ты.
A man is known by the company he keeps
JAMES HADLY
CHASE
•to be born in London
•to be the son of Colonel
Francis Reymond
•to leave home at the age of 18
•to begin to write in 1939
•to become famous in 1939
•to serve in the Royal Air Force
during World War II
•to be one of the best known
thriller writers of all times
•to work as a bookseller
to write 78 books
• the dates of the life: 19061985
James Hadly Chase
Agatha Christie
•the dates of the life: 1890-1976
•a well-known English writer
•to be a popular with a lot of
people (her books and plays)
•to be made into films (many of her
books)
•to be the most famous characters of
her books (detectives)
•to be the best-known novels by the
author
•“Murder on the Orient Express”
(«Убийство
в
Восточном
экспрессе»,1934)
“Death on the Nile” (Смерть на
Ниле», 1937)
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S EXPRESSIONS
One should make
mistakes in life.
It’s so tiring
always right.
when
his
own
one
is
Men are in danger everywhere
but women are mainly in love.
Agatha Christie
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
1564 - 1616
AII THE WORLD’S A STAGE,
AND AII THE MEN AND
WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS.
W. SHAKESPEARE
(«AS YOU LIKE IT»)
BIOGRAPHY
He was born on
April 23, 1564
In Stratford–upon–Avon.
His mother was the daughter
of a farmer.
His father was a glove-maker.
ENGLAND MIDLANDS
STRATFORD
HAS ANGLO-SAXON
ORIGINS
STANDS ON THE
RIVER AVON
OVER 800 YEARS
OLD
STRATFORDUPON-AVON
NOWADAYS
W.SHAKESPEARE’S
BIRTHPLACE : HENLY STREET
THE BACKYARD OF THE HOUSE
AT THE AGE OF 7 WILLIAM WAS
SENT TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL,
WHERE HE STUDIED FOR 6 YEARS.
AT THE AGE OF 14 HIS FATHER
TOOK HIM FROM SCHOOL.
WHAT HE DID BETWEEN 14-18 IS
NOT KNOWN.
W. SHAKESPEARE’S SCHOOL
IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
THE CLASSROOM
FAMILY LIFE

Marriage to Anne Hathaway in
1582
 Anne was 26, he was 18
 3 children
 The youngest,
Hamnet died at the
age of 11
LONDON
MOVED TO WORK IN LONDON AT THE AGE OF 23
JOINED A TRAVELLING COMPANY OF ACTORS
WORKED BOTH AS AN ACTOR AND A WRITER
MOST OF HIS PLAYS WERE PERFORMED IN THE NEW
GLOBE THEATRE
GLOBE THEATRE NOWADAYS
STRATFORD ROYAL
SHAKESPEARE
THEATRE (1932)
WHAT MONARCH
REIGNED IN
SHAKESPEARE’S
TIMES?
QUEEN ELIZABETH I
(1533-1603)
ARTS AND ESPECIALLY
THEATRE WAS
DEVELOPED
GREAT SHAKESPEARE’ S PLAYS
1593 «THE COMEDY OF ERRORS»
1595 «ROMEO AND JULIET»
1599 «JULIUS CAESAR»
1600 «AS YOU LIKE IT»
1600 «TWELFTH NIGHT»
1601 « HAMLET»
1604 «OTHELLO»
1606 «KING LEAR»
and others
1609
1623
SHAKESPEARE’S
SIGNATURE
POTRAITS
Which is real?
Nobody knows…
A NEW POTRAIT WAS FOUND
1610
46 YEARS OLD
GARDENS OF NEW PLACE
HERE W. SHAKESPEARE SPENT HIS LAST YEARS
OF HIS LIFE.
THE HOUSE WAS DESTROYED. THERE IS A
GARDEN ON ITS PLACE.
THE END OF
HIS LIFE
Returned to Stratford
in 1610
In 1616 Shakespeare died on
April, 23 (his birthday)
 Was buried in Holy Trinity
Church, where he was christened
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH STRATFORD
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
THE FIRST MONUMENT
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
W. SHAKESPEARE’S GRAVE STONE
AFTER WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE’S
DEATH THERE WAS
MUCH TALK ABOUT
REMOVING HIS
REMAINS FROM
STRATFORD TO THE
WESMINSTER ABBEY
BUT THE IDEA WAS
SOON ABANDONED.
ONLY IN 1740, 124
YEARS AFTER HIS
DEATH, MEMORIAL
STATUE TO WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE WAS
ERECTED IN POET’S
CORNER IN
WESMINSTER ABBY.
POET’S CONER
WESTMINSTER ABBY
MONUMEN
TS
NEW YORK
STRATFORD ON
AVON
LOOKING
BACK
Shakespeare wrote:
37 plays
154 sonnets
2 poems
THOUGH WRITTEN MORE
THAN 400 YEARS AGO, HIS
PLAYS CONTINUE TO BE
READ AND PERFORMED.
ROMEO AND JULIET
HAMLET
KING LEAR
OTHELLO
«HE WAS NOT FOR AN AGE,
BUT FOR ALL TIME.»
BEN JONSON
(1572-1637)
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
When and where did W. Shakespeare live?
What did he do to earn his living?
Did he have a family?
Why did he become famous?
What monarch reigned in the country in those times?
How many plays, poems and sonnets did he write?
When and where did W. Shakespeare die?
Where was he buried?
Jack London
•the dates of the life: 1876-1916
to be a son of a farmer
•to live in a poverty
•to begin to work at the age of
10
•to have a lot of jobs
•to be a man of adventure
•to work as a newspaper seller, a
sailor, a factory worker
•to dream of becoming a pirate
•to write his first book in 1898
•to live in Alaska for some
years
•to write 152stories about the
North
Jack London