Презентация "The pleasure of reading"

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Addison (1672 – 1719)
THE PLEASURE OF READING

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Famous English Writers and Poets
Charlotte Bronte
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
Rudyard Kipling
Lewis Carrol

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Outstanding American
Writers and Poets
Jack London
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Emily Dickinson

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Real name: Samuel Clemens
Date of Birth: November 30, 1835
Place of Birth: Florida,
Missouri
Occupation: a pilot of a steamship on the Mississippi; a journalist; a writer
Family:
Interesting facts: he never finished school; his pen-name “Mark Twain” means “mark two”
His works:
Died: April 21, 1910

Mark Twain

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Family
Sam Clemens and Olivia (Livy) Langdon were married in 1870. They settled in Buffalo, New York. They had a son Langdon Clemens and three daughters: Jean, Clara, Susy

Sam Clemens was the sixth of seven children. At the age of four, Sam
and his family moved to the small frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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Mark Twain and
His Works
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Prince and the Pauper
Many humorous stories

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Twain’s characters
Can you guess what novel
these characters are from?

Do you know their names?

Have you read this book?

Have you read any other
works by Mark Twain?

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Mark Twain’s Famous Aphorisms
The human race has one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

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        Enjoy a little Southern Hospitality
along the mighty river, watching the world
go by from the deck
of the gracious paddle
wheeled Mark Twain.

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There is a school
in Kansas City named
after Mark Twain
The film about Mark Twain and his life
( The map of the city)

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Test Yourself
I. True or false? Correct the false statements.
Mark Twain was born in a small village on the Thames river in the UK.
He was the only child in the family.
He never finished school.
The boy had to work after his father’s death. Sam was 11 years old.
He enjoyed reading.
Mark Twain was a pilot of a steamship on the Mississippi.
Later he became a captain of the steamship and began writing.
There is much humour and wit in Mark Twain’s works.
His pen-name means “mark twenty”.
Modern American literature comes from Twain’s works.

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Keys:
False
True
True
True
False
True
False
True
False
True

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