Виховання старшокласників на уроках англійської літератури в 10 класі

3rd Compare: In 1847, when Samuel was eleven his father died and the boy had to leave school and look for work. For ten years he worked as a printer. All his life Samuel was very fond of reading. While he was a printer he spent his spare time in libraries. It was also while he was a printer that Samuel began to write for newspapers and other publications, sending travel letters to them as he journeyed about the country from job to job. In 1857 he found a job on a boat and travelled up and down the Mississippi, this is where he got his pen-name” Mark Twain” (mark two). It was taken from the call of the Mississippi pilots when they measured the depth of the river. Clemens worked as a pilot for more then four years.4th Compare: Later the young man went to Nevada where about this time silver had been discovered. He worked as a miner for some time in Nevada. He suffered great hardships but found no silver and left the mining camps as poor as he had came to them. It was here that he began to write short stories and send them to newspapers. The publisher of the paper liked them and he was invited to work as a journalist. The writer’s pen-name appeared in print for the first time in 1863. Samuel started his literary activity as humorist. His humorous stories about the life of the common people of America soon become very popular.

5th Compare: In 1876 Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” was published. As Mark Twain said lately, many of the events described in this book really took place , and the characters came from real life. Tom Sawyer was very often the portrait of the writer himself, Huckleberry Finn was his friend. Aunt Polly was his mother; Tom’s brother Sid was like his own brother.

Now we shall see several scenes from this famous book acted by pupils of our school.

l. The pupils act several scenes from the book “ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

6-th Compare: I enjoyed the play and you? Now let’s listen to the American cowboy song “Home on the Range”.

Home on the range.

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Chorus:

Home, home on the range,

Where the deer and the antelope play;

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure and the zephyrs so free,

And the breeze is so balmy and light,

That I would not exchange my home on the range

For all the city so bright.

Chorus.

How often at night, when the heavens are bright

With the light from the glittering stars,