Презентация по английскому языку на тему Английские писатели (8 класс)
English Writers Let’s speak about Books and Authors! Учитель английского языкаГБОУ СОШ №89 г.Санкт-Петербург Ермакова М.А. To give brief information about writers you should answer the questions:
1.When did they work?
2.What books did they write?
3.What kind of writers are they? William Shakespeare Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer.
Shakespeare's Birthplace, John Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon His early plays were mainly
comedies and histories. Oberon, Titania and
Puck with Fairies Dancing Comedies ‡ Measure for Measure The All's Well That Ends Well**
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure**
The Merchant of Venice**
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre*
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest*
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen*
The Winter's Tale*
Cymbeline Tragedies Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and
Cleopatra
Globe Theatre Hamlet Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fightingThat would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
Ophelia Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day Shakespeare's funerary monument Shakespeare's grave. Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death. The stone slab covering his grave is inscribed with a curse against moving his bones: Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, in Landport, Portsmouth, in Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens (1786–1851), a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife, Elizabeth In 1834, Dickens became a political journalist, reporting on parliamentary debate and travelling across Britain . A young Charles Dickens Literary techniques Dickens's writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. At his desk in 1858 Social commentary Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty " when reading."
appears " "Charles Dickens as he appears when reading." Oliver Twist Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime Museums and festivals There are museums and festivals celebrating Dickens's life and works in many of the towns with which he was associated. Museums and festivals The Cashier's Office, Chatham Dockyard. Museums and festivals A child, dressed in appropriate attire, at the Dickensian Festival in Ulverston, Cumbria. Novels The Adventures of Oliver Twist The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son Little Dorrit The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Pickwick Papers Short story collections
Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Mudfog Papers (1837
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846) Christmas numbers of Household Words magazine: What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older (1851)
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1852)
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1853)
The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
The Holly-Tree Inn (1855)
The Wreck of the "Golden Mary" (1856)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
A House to Let (1858)
Speak about the authors Walter Scott Born 15 August 1771 Edinburgh, Scotland Died Occupation Historical novelist, poet Jonathan Swift Born 30 November 1667) Dublin, Ireland1 Died Occupation satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, priest Alexandre Dumas Born Died Occupation playwright and novelist Nationality French Writing period 1829–1870 To give brief information about writers you should answer the questions:
1.When did they work?
2.What books did they write?
3.What kind of writers are they?