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THEY HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME William Shakespeare Сonan Doyle Graham Greene The Bronte Sisters Robert Louis Stevenson Jane Austen Robert Burns C. Joanne Rowling

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Let’s check up your homework together! Write about your last or favourite book. Use the phrases which are given below: I am fond of reading… The writer was born … My favourite book is … The book is about … The last book I have read … The writer describes … The book is by … I like the book because …

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William Shakespeare B. Arthur Conan Doyle C. Joanne Rowling 1564 - 1616 1859 - 1930 1965

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 The Globe Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon.

B. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle statue in Crowborough Conan Doyle's family in New York, 1922 Grave of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Minstead, England

"The Elephant House" – one of the cafés in Edinburgh in which Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel. C. Joanne Rowling 1965

Complete the sentences according to the texts 1. _____________________a famous playwright, continues to be the greatest writer in the English language. 2. _____________________ was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburg, ____________________ 3. _____________________author of the best-selling _______________ series of books. 4. __________________ , one of eight children, was the eldest son, and educated at _______________

Complete the sentences according to the texts 5. Several times from 1891 to 1892 _____________________ tried to open a medical practice, first in ___________________, then in Portsmouth and finally in ____________________ 6. ____________________ wrote her first story “Rabbit” at the age of five or six. 7. ___________________37 plays, including ___________________

Complete the sentences according to the texts 8. In 1892, the first out of five collections of ________________ stories was published. 9. By 1920, _____________________ had become one of the highest paid writers in the world. 10. ______________________ quickly became a hit with children and adults alike and won ________________________________

Answer the questions: When was W. Shakespeare born? When was Arthur Conan Doyle born? When was C. Joanne Rowling born? When did he/she live? Where was he/she educated? When and where was he/she started writing? What famous books did he/she write?

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about your favourite author H/W: Ex. 3 p. 169 Write 10 – 15 sentences about your favourite author

speak about… know how to say my own opinion on… Now I give arguments… can find necessary information… express my attitude to…