Внеклассное мероприятие по английскому языку What do We Know about Agatha Christie?

Муниципальное общеобразовательное бюджетное учреждение средняя общеобразовательная школа с.Николаевка муниципального района Стерлитамакский район Республики Башкортостан
Внеклассное мероприятие по английскому языку, посвященное 125-летию со дня рождения Агаты Кристи
«What do We Know about Agatha Christie? »
Форма проведения: литературная гостиная.
УМК: М.З. Биболетова “Enjoy English”
Участвуют: обучающиеся 5-9 классов
Учитель:
Зухра Зуфаровна Хайбуллина 2015 год
Цели:
Образовательная:
1.Совершенствовать лексико - грамматические навыки аудирования и говорения.
2. Повторение и активизация лексики по теме «Известные писатели Великобритании».
Развивающая:
1.Развивать речевую культуру школьников, их культуру общения.
2. Способствовать развитию внимания и памяти обучающихся.
Воспитательная:
1.Расширить литературный кругозор обучающихся.
2.Мотивировать обучающихся на чтение книг на языке оригинала.
3. Воспитывать толерантное и уважительное отношение к культуре страны изучаемого языка.
Задачи:
1.Познакомить обучающихся с биографией и творчеством известной писательницы Великобритании Агаты Кристи.
2. Повысить интерес обучающихся к изучению английской литературы в целом и к произведениям Агаты Кристи в частности.
Оборудование: проектор, ноутбук, экран, презентация, стенд о творчестве Агаты Кристи, выставка книг автора, отрывки из произведений Агаты Кристи в оригинале, карточки с заданиями, запись отрывка из аудиокниги Агаты Кристи «Большая четверка».
Ход мероприятия:
I. Teacher: - Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman! I am glad to greet you at our literary club! 125th anniversary of one of the most famous writers of Great Britain, Agatha Christie, will be celebrated on 15th September 2015. Her name is well - known all over the world. But what do we know about Christie`s life and books? Let`s listen, watch a presentation and get information about Agatha Christie.
Pupil 1. - Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and died in 1976. She is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. During her 85 years of life, she authored 78 crime novels, 150 short stories, 6 romances and 19 plays. More than 2 billion copies of her books and plays had been sold in 104 languages. They are the third best-selling books in the world (after Shakespeare's works and the Bible).
Some books of Agatha Christie are: “Murder in Mesopotamia”, “At Bertram`s Hotel”, “Dumb Witness”, “Five Little Pigs”, “The Moving Finger”, “The Labours of Hercules”, “Poirot Investigates”.
Agatha Christie invented Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the most famous detectives. Many of her novels and short stories have been turned into successfull films. Her stage play “The Mousetrap” is the longest running play in history. It was first performed in 1952 and after a record 23,000 performances it is still running today. The most famous works of Christie are:
«Ten Little Niggers» -Десять негритят.
"The murder on the Oriental Express“-Убийство в «Восточном Экспрессе».
«Murder at the Vicarage»-
Убийство в доме викария.
«The Murder of Roger Ackroyd»
- Убийство Роджера Экройда
"The Mousetrap"- Мышеловка
"Poirot Investigates" -Пуаро расследует.
"Witness for the Prosecution"- Свидетель обвинения.
and many others.
Pupil 2. – Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, in the county Devon, England, on 15 September 1890 as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, a British army captain, and Clarissa Miller. She was the third and the last child in the family. She had an elder sister Margaret Frary and an elder brother Louis Montant. Christie was born in an upper-middle class family, growing up in a large Italian-style villa on the English seashore. She had a happy and peaceful childhood. Christie was allowed by her free-spirited mother to run wild as much as possible. On her own, she went out at a very young age on a sailboat with her unreliable brother. She went on a mule trip with her sister without permission. At the age of 6, she climbed out the 4th floor window of a hotel and walked riskily along the foot-wide ledge.
She was only eleven when her father died.
Pupil 3: - Agatha Christie was educated home, which was customary for young women during the Victorian era. Agatha`s mother encouraged her to write from very early age. Christie had a brilliant mind, excelling in mathematics, logic, and music. At sixteen, she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music.
Christie grew up into a tall, slim blonde. She had many suitors as a young woman. During World War I Agatha worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquay as a nurse. Later on she got a job of a hospital dispenser, which gave her knowledge of poisons. This influenced many of her crime stories because some of her victims were poisoned.
Pupil 4: - On Christmas Eve of 1914 Agatha married Archiebald Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps. Their daughter, Rosalind, was born on 5th August 1919. Her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was published in 1920. That was the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, who became one of the most famous private detectives since Sherlock Holmes. By her own words, Agatha started composing from simple imitation the sister who was already printed in magazines. The real reader's success came to Agatha Christie in 1926 when the novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd“ was published. By 1923, she was starting to develop a reputation as a detective novelist. She continued writing at least one novel a year for the rest of her life, with her fame and reputation growing by leaps and bounds.
Pupil 5: - In 1926 mother of Agatha died, and her husband, Colonel Archibald Christie, demanded divorce. Agatha Christie's reaction was so unexpected that the writer in the future hardly could explain it: she disappeared. Newspapers printed wild stories about her disappearance – that she had commited suicide, that she had been kidnapped, that she had run away with a secret lover. Ten days later Agatha was found alive and well in a health spa of a hotel in Yorkshire, registered under a name... the woman whom her husband was going to marry. But to this day, nobody really knows what happened during those ten days.
In 1928 marriage of Agatha and Archibald Christie broke up.
Pupil 6: - In 1930 Agatha Christie married again, the archaeologist Max Mallowan. She had met him on her travels in Near East in 1927. Max was Catholic and fourteen years her junior; he became one of the most prominent archaeologists of his generation. Agatha periodically spent some months in a year in Syria and Iraq in expeditions together with her husband. Later Christie used these exotic settings in her novels. Agatha and Max were happily married for 46 years.
Pupil 7: - The most prolific period began in the late 1920s. In 1936 Christie published the first of six psychological romance novels. Novels which weren't belonging to detective, left under Mary Uestmakkot's (Mary Westmacott) pseudonym. 10 novels were published under this pseudonym in total.
During World War II Christie worked in the dispensary of University Collage Hospital in London. After the war she continued to write.
Pupil 8: - In 1967 Christie became president of the British Detection Club. In 1971 the Queen gave her the title "Dame of the British Empire", which is an honorary rank equivalent to knighthood, but awarded much more rarely.
After a hugely successful career and a wonderful life Agatha died peacefully on 12 January 1976 in Wellington, Oxfordshire.
The last Poirot book, The Curtain, appeared shortly before the writer's death, and the last Miss Marple story, The Sleeping Murder, and her autobiography were published after her death.
At present Agatha Christie's grandson - Matthew Prichard lives in England.
Pupil 9: - Why is Agatha Christie so Popular? Agatha Christie's success with millions of readers lies in her ability to combine clever plots with excellent character drawing and a keen sense of humour with a great observation. Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always conquered in her novels. Agatha Christie’s language is simple and good and it is pleasant to read her books in the original.
II. Teacher: - Now we will have a small competition about Agatha Christie. Let`s look up how attentive you were. First of all you must divide into two teams. Think of the name of your team. Each team should have its captain. We have three members of our jury today. They are: Hatalyay Alexeevna Negodina and the pupils of the 9th form Ruslan Rakhmatullin and Farkhat Khaybullin.
1. - So, it is time to find out the names of our teams. Captains, introduce yourself and your teams, please!
2. – The second task is to answer my questions. But if your answer is wrong, the other team can give its versions.
a) When was Agatha Christie born? (She was born in 1890.)
b) Where was Agatha born? (She was born in Torquay, in the county Devon, England.)
c) Where did Agatha get her education? (She got her education at home.)
d) When did she become famous? (She became famous in 1926.)e) What kinds of stories did Christie write? (She wrote detective stories and romances.)
f) How many novels and plays did Agatha Christie write? (She wrote 78 novels and 19 plays.)
g) When did Agatha Christie die? (She died in 1976.)
h) How old was Agatha when she lost her father? (She was 11.)
i) Who was her first husband? What was he? (Her first husband was Archibald Christie, an aviator.)
j) She had a son and a daughter, didn’t she? (No, she didn`t. She had the only daughter Rosalind.)
k) How old was Agatha Christie when she married for the second time? (She was 40.)
l) Which famous characters did she create? Why is she called the Queen of Crime? (She created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Agatha Christie is called the Queen of Crime because she wrote many detective stories.)
3. –The fourth task is to fill in the gaps in the sentences:
a) Agatha wrote her first book as the result of a challenge from her … Margaret. (sister)
b) She is the only crime writer to have created two equally famous and much loved characters - … and … . (Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple)
c) She wrote six romance novels under the name … Westmacott. (Mary)
d) Her favourite … was green. (colour)
e) The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul has an Agatha Christie Room where she wrote  “Murder on the … Express”. (Orient)
f) In 1972 she was immortalised in … Tussauds. (Madame)
The teams write their answers in sheets of paper and then give them to the jury.
4. - The last task is to translate an original text from the book “The Big Four” by Agatha Christie from English into Russian.
“The Big Four” by Agatha Christie
1
The Unexpected Quest
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until the boat is moored, then gather their belongings together without fuss and disembark. Personally, I can never manage this. From the moment I get on board I feel that the time is too short to settle down to anything.
I move my suitcases from one spot to another, and if I go down to the saloon for a meal I bolt my food with an uneasy feeling that the boat may arrive unexpectedly whilst I am below. Perhaps all this is merely a legacy from one's short leaves in the war, when it seemed a matter of such importance to secure a place near the gangway, and to be amongst the first to disembark lest one should waste precious minutes of one's three or five days' leave.
On this particular July morning, as I stood by the rail and watched the white cliffs of Dover drawing nearer, I marvelled at the passengers who could sit calmly in their chairs and never even raise their eyes for the first sight of the native land. Yet perhaps their case was different from mine. Doubtless many of them had only crossed to Paris for the weekend, whereas I had spent the last year and a half on a ranch in the Argentine. I had prospered there, and my wife and I had both enjoyed the free and easy life of the South American continent, nevertheless it was with a lump in my throat that I watched the familiar shore draw nearer and nearer.
III. Teacher: – Now let`s listen to the CD-book of this work by Agatha Christie and check up your translations with this one!
Listening to the CD- book of “The Big Four” by Agatha Christie.
IV. 1. – Our competition is over. The final scores are… Let`s congratulate the winners! Thank you for the game! Thanks to our jury for their work!
2. – I believe that you have got a lot of new information about Agatha Christie. I hope that you will try to read her books in original . Good luck and good–bye! Thank you for your attention, my dear friends!
Used Sourcies1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
2, HYPERLINK "http://agathachristie.com/about-christie/christies-life/biography/" http://agathachristie.com/about-christie/christies-life/biography/
3.images.yandex.ru›agatha christie
4. E. A.Balk, M. M. Lemenev “Famous People” (Moskau, Drofa, 2012)