Tasks for the discussion:

1. Translate the text into Russian.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. When was Charles Chaplin born?

2. Charlie's early life was spent touring England, wasn’t it? Why did he have such childhood?

3. What was his first job?

4. Where did Chaplin make a detour after the age of 14?

5. What was the famous Chaplin’s character?

6. Have you seen Chaplin’s films? Do you like them?

7. What most famous films do you know?

8. What happened in the sound era?

9. Did Chaplin’s sound films have the same fame?

10. Is Charlie Chaplin famous in Russia?

TEST ON UNIT III

1. Where is Spielberg’s motherland?

a) in the USA;

b) in the USSR;

c) in the Ukraine;

d) in the UK.

2. What was his hobby in his childhood?

a) shooting films;

b) shooting animals;

c) shooting animation films;

d) he just liked shooting something.

3. What was the name of Spielberg’s first 40-minutes film?

a) Escape to Anywhere;

b) Escape to Jamaica;

c) Escape to Nowhere;

d) Escape to Whatever you want.

4. How many children has Spielberg?

a) 2;

b) 13;

c) 5;

d) 7.

5. When did Spielberg shoot “Jaws”?

a) in 1975;

b) in 1795;

c) in 1579;

d) in 1597.

6. What did Spielberg affect Hollywood?

a) he astonished it;

b) he burnt it;

c) he shook it;

d) he blew it.

7. How did people call Spielberg?

a) movie wizard;

b) movie magician;

c) movie sorcerer;

d) movie witch.

8. Who were Charles Chaplin’s parents?

a) music-hall performers;

b) singers;

c) artists.

9. When did Chaplin firstly change his life?

a) after his parents’ death;

b) at the age of 14;

c) at the age of 18.

10. The leading Charlie’s character is

a) a little fellow;

b) a little farmer;

c) a little singer.

11. In 1919 he joined

a) the United Artists Corporation;

b) Fred Kamo’s company;

c) the State Department.

12. What was the first Chaplin’s speech film?

a) Monsieur Verdoux;

b) the Great Dictator;

c) Limelight.

Unit IV

TEXT I A

1. Pay attention to the following proper names:

Caedmon, St. Bede the Venerable, Beowulf, Julius Caesar, Sir Gawain, William Concerning Piers, William Langland, Canterbury, Chaucer, Thomas Melory, Le Morte d’Arthur, King Arthur, William Caxton, Thomas More, Utopia, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Renaissance, William Shakespeare, Richard, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Christopher Marlow, Dr. Faustus, Francis Bacon, Ben Johnson, Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan, Samuel Pepys, John Milton, William Congreve, Richard Steel, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. Read after the speaker:

Theologian, chronologist, manuscript, paganism, medieval, aspiration, vigour, playwright, mysterious, circumstance, comprehensive, allegory, epistolary.

The History of English Literature

The literature of England is one of the highest achievements of a great nation. The language in which it is written has evolved over hundreds of years and is still changing. Several nations, including Canada, the United States, and Australia, are indebted to England for a literary heritage.

c. 658	An illiterate English shepherd named Caedmon composed (orally) his Hymn, which was commonly considered to be the earliest surviving Old English poem.
731 – 732	St. Bede the Venerable, theologian and chronologist, finished his historical work the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which contained the description of events from the raids of Julius Caesar to the development of Christianity in Britain.
1000	The only manuscript copy of the epic poem Beowulf, the oldest (c. 700 AD) of the great heroic epics written in English, was produced. Beowulf is an odd blend of Christianity and paganism. The story of Beowulf takes place in lands other than England, but the customs and manners described were those of the Anglo-Saxon people. This epic poem describes their heroic past.
1375	The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was composed by an unknown English poet.
1385	The poem the Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman was written by a poet believed to be William Langland.
1387	The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s most enduring literary work and the project he devotedasbe sh000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 himself to until his death, began in London.
1470	English writer Sir Thomas Melory finished in prison Le Morte d’Arthur, the first English prose account of King Arthur and Fellowship of the Round Table.
1485	Le Morte d’Arthur was edited and printed by William Caxton, the first English printer
1516	English Humanist poet Sir Thomas More published his masterpiece (written in Latin), Utopia
c. 1530	English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form into English poetry
1579	English poet Edmund Spenser published the Shepheardes Calender (Shepherd’s Calendar), which marked the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature.
1590 –1616	The “age” of the great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, became an actor in London and then the creator of the world’s famous theatre “The Globe”. The poet wrote about the eternal things in life: love, death and high human aspirations. He reflected the spirit of the Renaissance. He taught to understand the essence of the human relations, passions and conflicts, and presented them with great dramatic vigour. “Richard III”, “Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Much Ado About Nothing” and other plays belong to the golden pages of world’s literature. William Shakespeare is also known as the author of poems and 154 sonnets.
1593	English playwright Christopher Marlow, whose Dr. Faustus and other plays introduced blank verse into English literature, was killed under mysterious circumstances.
1596	The 6 books of Edmund Spenser’s the Faerie (Fairy) Queen were published together in a single volume.
1597	British philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, one of the great masters of English prose, published the first edition of his Essays.
1606	Volpone and the Alchemist, English playwright Ben Johnson’s most successful satiric comedies, were written and performed between 1606 and 1610.
1651	British philosopher Thomas Hobbs published Leviathan, one of the great works of political philosophy.
1660	Samuel Pepys began his Diary, one of the most comprehensive and detailed portraits of English society during Restoration.
1667	John Milton published Paradise Lost, his masterpiece.
1700	The Way of the World, considered by many to be the wittiest and the most successful allegory in the English language, was completed by British playwright William Congreve.
1709	British writer and editor Sir Richard Steel founded the first famous London newspaper the Tatler.
1711	Another famous newspaper the Spectator was founded by Steel and his friend and partner Joseph Addison.
1719	English novelist Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, the first and the most famous of his series of adventure tales
1726	English novelist Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece, the satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, was published and got critical success and controversy.
1728	English poet and playwright John Gay published his famous ballad-opera the Beggar’s Opera, considered to be the greatest theatrical success of the 18^th century.
1740	English novelist Samuel Richardson published his epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.
1749	“The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” by Henry Fielding (a well-known English novelist and playwright) was published.
1794	Early Romantic British poet William Blake published his poetry collection Songs of Innocence and Experience.
1798	English Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published the most important collection of poems and essays in English literature, Lyrical Ballads.

Words:

heritage achievement raid enduring paganism medieval aspiration vigour playwright circumstance volume comprehensive epistolary controversy

наследие достижение набег длительный язычество средневековый стремление сила драматург обстоятельство том исчерпывающий эпистолярный спор

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