А. П. Голубев, Н. В. Балюк, И. Б. Смирнова
Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
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- EXERCISES 11. Answer the following questions
- 12. Speak about A.A.Milne. 13. Speak about your favourite writer and his books . T e x t 4 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
| Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
On Monday, when the sun is hot I wonder to myself a lot: Now is it true, or is it not, That what is which and which is what? On Tuesday, when it hails and snows The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those. On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, And I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true That who is what and what is who. On Thursday, when it starts to freeze And hoarfrost twinkles on the trees, How very readily one sees That these are whose — but whose are these? “But it isn’t Easy,” said Pooh to himself ... “Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.” EXERCISES 11. Answer the following questions: 1. When was A.A.Milne born? 2. Where did he sudy? 3. What was his first experience in literature? 4. When did he get married? 5. What was his son’s name? 6. Who gave him the idea of writing a book about the teddy bear? 7. How many books for children did he write? 8. What other literary works did he write? 9. What were the books that brought him international fame? 10. Did he understand why his fairy tales were so popular? 12. Speak about A.A.Milne. 13. Speak about your favourite writer and his books . T e x t 4 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Lewis Carroll is a pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the professor of mathematics from Oxford. The future writer went to Rugby school and 228 then to Christ Church College in Oxford, and he got Master’s Degree when he was 23. His first experience in writing was not a fairy-tale, but a serious work on mathematics. When Dodgson was working in the college, he got acquainted with the Liddell family. Liddell was the dean of the faculty where he worked. The Liddells had four children: a son, Harry, and three daughters: Lo- rina Charlotte, Alice, and Edith. Dodgson became a good friend of the family and often entertained the children with different stories. One day the Liddells together with Dodgson went on a boating trip on the Thames, and he told the children the story about wonderful adventures under ground. The story was so good that everybody asked him to publish it. The first book appeared in 1865 and had the title Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Dodgson continued writing and soon published the second book: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Saw There. He went on writing books and stories for children, but none of them enjoyed so much popularity as stories about Alice and her adventures. The Jabberwocky is one of the poems from the book Through the Looking-Glass... and is a wonderful example of nonsense that people all over the world enjoy up to now. жүктеу/скачать 2,62 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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