Question

6 Read and match the names

of the famous writers to the paragraphs about them.

Agatha

Christie

William

Shakespeare

Walter

Scott

Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle

She was born in 1890.

She wrote 66 detective

novels. She died in 1976.

He was fond of Scottish folk songs

and ballads. He is considered to be

the founder1

of a historical novel.

He was English. He was

born in 1564. He was a

dramatist, a poet and an

actor. He died in 1616.

He was born in 1859. He was a

writer of detective stories. The

main character of his stories is

Sherlock Holmes.

Lewis Carroll is a pen name of Charles Dodgson,

the man who wrote such famous books for children

as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through

the Looking-Glass. Lewis Carroll was a wonderful

children’s writer. He understood children and he

could enter the world of children’s imagination.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the name

Mark Twain. Clemens was well-known as the author

of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [0tAm 9sc:j3] and

Huckleberry Finn and other novels about growing up

in a small town on the Mississippi River in the USA.


7 Get acquainted with some of the famous English

and American authors.

1 2

3 4

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a founder [9faUnd3] — засновник

Walter Scott [0wc:lt3 9skAt] is the creator of a historical novel in English literature. He was born in

Edinburgh, Scotland. He loved his native land

deeply and was greatly interested in its past. In his

youth he made a good collection of the old Scottish

ballads1

. Walter Scott fi rst became known as a

poet. In 1814 his fi rst novel Waverley [9weiv3lI] appeared. During

the next few years Scott published many novels among which are

Rob Roy, Ivanhoe [9aiv3nh3U], and he became the most famous

novelist of his days.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a professor of

Literature and English at Oxford and a storyteller,

became famous with his trilogy The Lord of the

Rings (1954-1955). It is especially loved by young

people. Tolkien’s epic world is populated by elves,

magicians, dwarves and monsters. Since the

publication of The Lord of the Rings, a whole

industry of fantasy literature, computer games, and other products

has been created by worldwide Tolkien’s fans to continue his work.

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a ballad [9b2l3d] — балада

REMEMBER!

HISTORIC or HISTORICAL?

a historic battle

a historic place

a historic building

a historic meeting

a historic change

historical novel

historical drama

historical museum

(‘historic’ means

‘important in history’)

(‘historical’ means ‘based on

history’; ‘happening in the past’;

‘dealing with real or imaginary

people and events in the past’;

‘helpful in studying the past’)​

Answer 1

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