СЦЕНАРИЙ ВНЕУРОЧНОГО ЗАНЯТИЯ ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
ПО ТЕМЕ «ЧИТАЕМ РАССКАЗЫ О. ГЕНРИ И ГОТОВИМСЯ К
ЕГЭ»
ДЛЯ ОБУЧАЮЩИХСЯ 10-11 КЛАССОВ
Галина Николаевна Сергеева
учитель английского и немецкого языков,
МБОУ «Ивановская средняя общеобразовательная школа»
Рыльского района Курской области
Аннотация.
Целью внеурочного занятия является подготовка обучающихся к выполнению заданий
в формате ЕГЭ, развитие умений и навыков смыслового чтения, знакомство
обучающихся с произведениями известного американского писателя О. Генри,
Задания занятия построены на материале рассказов данного писателя, тексты
адаптированы, к ним составлены задания в формате контрольно-измерительных
материалов ГИА. Обучающиеся получают возможность отработать навыки выполнения
заданий на множественный выбор по аудированию и чтению, грамматических заданий
на использование лексики и способов словообразования. Задание из раздела
«Чтение» не полностью повторяет формат ЕГЭ: упражнение на множественный выбор
использовано в комбинации с приемом технологии развития критического мышления
«Чтение с остановками». Индивидуальное задание построено в формате задания ЕГЭ
из раздела «Письмо». Воспитательный аспект внеурочного занятия предусматривает
изучение произведений мастера короткого рассказа, О. Генри с целью формирования
нравственных качеств обучающихся, мотивацию обучающихся к чтению произведений
художественной литературы. Представленные на занятии приемы поделиться
прочитанным способствуют формированию интереса к чтению и развитию
коммуникативных умений обучающихся.
Цель –
совершенствование умений и навыков смыслового чтения, аудирования, письма,
умения работать с лексикой; подготовка обучающихся к выполнению заданий в
формате ЕГЭ.
Планируемые
результаты:
Личностные:
1. Осознание
возможностей самореализации средствами иностранного языка;
2. Формирование
нравственных качеств обучающихся: сострадания, любви, уважения к чувствам
другого человека.
Предметные:
1. Совершенствование
умений и навыков изучающего чтения: полностью понимать информацию из
произведений художественной литературы.
2. Отработка
умения понимать прослушанный текст, извлекая запрашиваемую информацию.
3. Отработка
умения употреблять в речи глаголы в формах действительного и страдательного
залогов в следующих временных формах: Past Simple, Past Continuous,
Past Perfect.
4. Отработка
умения выражать свои суждения и чувства и излагать их в письме личного
характера.
5. Совершенствование
умений и навыков обучающихся в выполнении заданий в формате ЕГЭ.
Метапредметные:
Личностные: формирование нравственного
сознания, усвоение обучающимися общечеловеческих ценностей: сострадания, любви,
уважения к чувствам другого человека.
Регулятивные: развитие умений
самостоятельной информационно-познавательной деятельности.
Познавательные: владение навыками
получения необходимой информации, умение ориентироваться в различных источниках
информации, критически оценивать и интерпретировать получаемую информацию.
Коммуникативные: формирование умения
продуктивно общаться и взаимодействовать в процессе совместной деятельности.
Конспект занятия.
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Этап
занятия |
Деятельность
учителя |
Деятельность
обучающихся |
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Организационный
этап. Мотивация к деятельности. |
Good morning! I
hope you are all ready for your English lesson. На доске коллаж: учащийся, сдающий экзамен; книга, на обложке которой
написано: «Sad love stories» и удивленный человек, которому вручают
подарок-сюрприз. Look at the
collage and say if you have any ideas about the topic of today's lesson. Thank you for your
ideas, they are close to the truth. I’d like to ask some questions connected
with the topic of our today’s lesson. - Would you like
to perform tasks of Level B easily? - Do you like stories
with unpredictable and unexpected endings? - Would you like
to get acquainted with the works of the famous American writer O. Henry? Three times you
have answered: “Yes”. I am glad to inform you that in today's lesson we will
carry out all the actions stated in the questions. How will this
lesson be useful to you? I am glad that our
goals coincide. My goal for the lesson is to arouse your interest in stories
of O. Henry and give you the opportunity to practice in performing tasks in
the format of the unified state exam. |
Высказывают идеи: - We will be preparing for exams. - We’ll read a story about love with a sad
ending. - There is some kind of surprise waiting for us
at the lesson. Отвечают на
вопросы учителя. Возможные ответы: Yes, of course. I would like to succeed in
performing tasks of Level B. I'm not a big fan of reading, but I like to read
stories with unpredictable endings. I am interested in learning about the American
writer O. Henry and I’d like to get acquainted with his works. Отвечают на
вопрос и таким образом формулируют цель занятия: -
I’ll learn … -
I’ll find out … -
I’ll read … |
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Освоение новых
знаний. |
When I was preparing for the lesson and thinking
how to inspire you to read, I came up with several ways how to tell about an
interesting book. These are the ways: 1. Tell about the author. 2. Tell about interesting scenes. 3. Share your emotions. 4. Show pictures. 5. Speak shorter. (учитель
размещает советы на доске, в ходе занятия обучающиеся будут пользоваться ими) So let’s apply these ways in practice. The first group will tell us some interesting
facts about the author. Thank you for the interesting information. There
were tragic and touching events in the life of O. Henry. How did his
experience reflect in his stories? |
Предварительно
обучающиеся разделены на четыре группы. Каждая группа заранее получила текст
и задание к нему. На занятии обучающиеся размещаются по группам. Тип рассадки
на занятии – «кафе». Первая группа
заранее получила текст о жизни О. Генри (приложение 1) и задание: выделить 3
интересных факта, чтобы на занятии поделиться ими с одноклассниками.
Представители от группы сообщают факты классу. Например: The story "The Gifts of the Magi" is
autobiographical. In Mexico, while on the run, Porter received a telegram
about the hopeless condition of his beloved wife, Estes Atoll. In the absence
of her husband, starving and not receiving any treatment, on Christmas Eve
she managed to sell a lace cape for $25 and send Bill a gift to Mexico City –
a gold watch chain. Just at that moment Porter sold his watch to buy a train
ticket to the border. He managed to see and say goodbye to his wife. She passed away a few days later. |
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Применение знаний
и умений в новой ситуации. |
The second way to present a book is to tell some
interesting scenes. Let's listen to the second group. They will present us
the story ‘Springtime a la Carte’. Some phrases are very expressive, metaphors make
you fantasize. I’m sure it’ll be interesting to read this story. Let’s do it. There are two tasks in the story: Task 1. Fill in the gaps 1 – 8 with the correct
forms of the words in brackets. I'll give you a little prompt, you need to
use the Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Tenses and there are also
forms of the Passive Voice. Now let’s check. Answers: 1. was written 2. was
delighted 3. was sitting 4. had gone 5. could 6. had brought 7. sat 8. were
written. Task 2. Fill in the gaps A – G with the words
derived from the words in brackets. Mind that in this task words need to be
changed not grammatically, but lexically. Now let’s check. Answers: A) accompaniment B)
reminders C) swiftly D) affection E) farmer F) desperately G) typewriter. These tasks are in the format of the unified
state exam and you can run into them in part 3 ‘Grammar and vocabulary’. What do think about the story “Springtime a la
Carte’? What adjectives would you use to describe it? |
Вторая группа
читала рассказ О. Генри «Весна порционно» (приложение 2) и выполняла задание:
найти две интересных сцены. Обучающиеся представляют сцены. Например: the calendar on
the wall kept crying to her: "Springtime is here, Sarah! You've got a
neat figure yourself, Sarah, a nice springtime figure, why do you look out
the window so sadly?" Обучающиеся
читают рассказ из приложения 2. Самостоятельно выполняют задания. Проверка
проводится фронтально c использованием
игрового приема «Парный ответ». Обучающиеся отвечают по цепочке и парами:
один в паре отвечает устно, второй записывает ответ на доске. Вторая группа
выступает в роли экспертов, поскольку обучающиеся хорошо знают текст (они
изучали его дома). Учитель вмешивается, только если ошибку не заметили. Обучающиеся
подбирают прилагательные для описания рассказа, например, romantic / touching / funny, etc. И объясняют свой выбор: I find the story
romantic, because a funny coincidence allows two loving people to find each
other. |
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The third way to tell about a book is to share
emotions. Students from group 3, you’ve read the story ‘No story’, please,
share your emotions with us. Emotions are contagious. We also would like to
experience similar feelings, let's read the story ‘No story’. While reading the story we’ll have three stops
and answer the questions in the gaps, choosing from 4 variants This task will help you to prepare for performing
the task in the format of the unified state exam, which you can run into in
part 2 ‘Reading’. |
Третья группа
читала рассказ «Без вымысла» (приложение 3). Текст поделен на части (разделение
проходит по остановкам в задании к этому тексту). Задание для третьей группы:
сформулировать, какие чувства испытывал читающий рассказ после прочтения
каждой части. Представители групп говорят о своих впечатлениях. Обучающиеся
читают текст, выполняя задание в приложении 3, на каждой из трех остановок
отвечают на вопрос, прогнозируют дальнейшее развитие событий, комментируют
ответы. |
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Do you remember the fourth way to present a book?
The next story we turn to is the ‘Last leaf’.
Let's start our acquaintance with the slide show. I think you have already drawn a story in your
imagination. Now let's listen to the original story. While listening do the
task: choose the right answer to the questions 1 – 5. Let’s check the task. Answers: 1b 2a 3c 4a 5b. This task is in the format of the unified state
exam and you can run into it in part 1 ‘Listening’. You have understood that
it is not the end of the story, it’s just the first part. I hope you are
interested in finding out how the story ended and you will finish reading it
at home. |
It is to show pictures. Четвертая группа
читала первую часть рассказа «Последний лист» (приложение 4). Задание:
подобрать 3-5 картинок, иллюстрирующих рассказ и способных заинтересовать
читателя. Обучающиеся показывают подобранные картинки. Обучающиеся
слушают рассказ и выполняют задание в приложении 4: отвечают на вопросы,
выбирая ответ из 3 предложенных вариантов. Проверка задания
проходит фронтально с использованием игрового приема «Пинг-понг». Четвертая
группа выступает в роли экспертов, которые читают вопросы и называют
отвечающего, тот дает ответ. Проверка проходит в быстром темпе как
перекидывание мяча в пинг-понге. Любой участник может сказать слово «стоп»,
если заметил ошибку или ему требуется пояснение. |
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As for the fifth way to tell about a book you’ll
try it yourselves. Your individual task is compiled in the format of a task
from part 4 ‘Writing’. You should write an email to your friend. And remember
the tip: Speak shorter. You should write 100 words. |
Обучающиеся пишут
электронное письмо другу с рекомендацией, какую книгу прочитать (задание в
приложении 5). Задание выполняется дома самостоятельно. На следующем занятии
обучающиеся знакомятся с письмами. |
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Рефлексия. |
What was the most interesting part of today’s
lesson? Why? Let's make a
rating ‘Top 5’. Let's choose the five most useful facts or skills obtained
during the lesson and arrange them according to the degree of importance. |
Обучающиеся
высказывают свое мнение по данным вопросам. Например: Now I
know a great way to tell a friend about an interesting book and inspire him
to read. |
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Заключительный
этап занятия. |
Have we fulfilled our goal? Thank you for your work. That’s all for today. |
Обучающиеся
отвечают на вопрос. |
Список использованных ресурсов:
1. Henry O. Springtime à la Carte. –
[Электронный ресурс]. – URL: https://briefly.ru/genri/vesna_portcionno/ (дата обращения: 21.02.2020)
2. Henry O. No story. – [Электронный ресурс]. – URL: http://englishstory.ru/o-henry-no-story-in-english-adapted.html#ixzz6HFLjNlpV (дата
обращения: 25.03.2020)
3. Henry O. The last leaf. – [Электронный ресурс]. – URL: https://englishstory.ru/o-genri-posledniy-list-chitaem-izuchaem.html (дата обращения: 12.03.2022)
4.
Henry O. The last
leaf. – [Электронный ресурс]. – Cсылка на аудиозапись: https://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Last_Leaf-_By_O_Henry.html (дата
обращения: 12.03.2022)
5.
Демонстрационный вариант контрольных
измерительных материалов единого государственного экзамена 2022 года по
английскому языку (письменная часть). – [Электронный ресурс]. – URL: http://fipi.ru/ege/demoversii-specifikacii-kodifikatory#!/tab/151883967-11 (дата обращения:
12.03.2022)
6.
Спецификация контрольных измерительных
материалов для проведения в 2022 году единого государственного экзамена по
иностранным языкам. – [Электронный ресурс]. – URL: http://fipi.ru/ege/demoversii-specifikacii-kodifikatory#!/tab/151883967-11 (дата обращения:
12.03.2022)
Приложение 1.
Read the text and
find one fact you consider interesting / unexpected / important.
O. Henry is an outstanding American
writer, novelist, author of popular short stories characterized by subtle humor
and unexpected endings.
William Sidney Porter was born on
September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At the age of three, he lost
his mother, who died of tuberculosis. Later he came under the care of his
paternal aunt. After school, he studied to be a pharmacist, worked at his
uncle's pharmacy. Three years later he left for Texas, tried different
professions: worked on a ranch, served in the land administration. Then he
worked as a cashier and an accountant at a bank in Austin, Texas.
The first literary experiments date
back to the early 1880s. In 1894, Porter began publishing the humorous weekly
Rolling Stone in Austin, almost entirely filling it with his own essays, jokes,
poems and drawings. A year later, the magazine was closed. Potter was accused
of a shortage, he spent three years on the run, but when he returned to
America, he was arrested and imprisoned in Columbus, Ohio, where he spent three
years. In prison, Porter worked in the infirmary and wrote short stories,
looking for a pseudonym.
In the end, he opted for the O.
Henry variant (often incorrectly written like the Irish surname - O'Henry). Its
origin is not entirely clear. The writer himself claimed in an interview that
Henry's name was taken from the secular news column in the newspaper, and the
initial O. was chosen as the simplest letter.
He told one of the newspapers that
O. stands for Olivier, and indeed, he published several stories there under the
name Olivier Henry. According to other sources, this is the name of the famous
French pharmacist Etienne Henry, whose medical reference book was popular at
that time.
Another hypothesis was put forward
by the writer and scientist Guy Davenport: "O. Henry" is nothing but
an abbreviation of the name of the prison where the author was sitting - Ohio
Penitentiary.
He wrote his first story under this
pseudonym. "Dick the Whistler's Christmas Present", published in Mc
Clure's Magazine in 1899-in prison. O. Henry's only novel, Kings and Cabbages,
was published in 1904. It was followed by collections of short stories: "Four
Million", "The Burning Lamp", "The Heart of the West",
"The Voice of the City", "The Noble Rogue", "The Ways
of Fate", "The Chosen", "Exact Deeds" and
"Rotation".
The story "The Gifts of the
Magi" is autobiographical. In Mexico, while on the run, Porter received a
telegram about the hopeless condition of his beloved wife, Estes Atoll. In the
absence of her husband, starving and not receiving any treatment, on Christmas
Eve she managed to sell a lace cape for $25 and send Bill a gift to Mexico City
– a gold watch chain. Just at that moment Porter sold his watch to buy a train
ticket to the border. He managed to see and say goodbye to his wife. She passed
away a few days later.
O. Henry died on June 5, 1910 in New
York. The outstanding writer occupies an exceptional place in American
literature as a master of the genre of a short story.
Приложение 2.
Springtime a la Carte
Adapted story by O. Henry
Task 1. Fill in the gaps 1 – 7 with the correct forms of the words in
brackets.
Sarah was a free-lance typewriter and
canvassed for odd jobs of copying. She
rented a room in an old red brick house. Next to her house there was
Schulenberg's Home Restaurant. One evening after dining at Schulenberg's Sarah
took away with her the bill of fare. It 1)
… (WRITE) in an almost
unreadable script neither English nor German, and so arranged that if you were
not careful you began with a toothpick and rice pudding and ended with soup and
the day of the week.
The next day Sarah showed Schulenberg a neat
card on which the menu was beautifully typewritten with the viands temptingly
marshalled under their right.
Schulenberg 2) … (DELIGHT) and they signed an agreement. She was to furnish
typewritten bills of fare for the twenty-one tables in the restaurant – a new
bill for each day's dinner, and new ones for breakfast and lunch as often as
changes occurred in the food or as neatness required. In return for this
Schulenberg was to send three meals per diem to Sarah's room by a waiter , an obsequious one if
possible.
And then spring came.
One afternoon Sarah shivered in her elegant
bedroom. She had no work to do except
Schulenberg's menu cards. While Sarah 3)
… (SIT) in her squeaky willow rocker and looking out the window, the
calendar on the wall kept crying to her: "Springtime is here, Sarah,
springtime is here, I tell you. Look at me, Sarah, my figures show it. You've
got a neat figure yourself, Sarah, a nice springtime figure, why do you look
out the window so sadly?"
On the previous summer Sarah 4) … (GO) into the country and loved a
farmer.
Sarah stayed two weeks at Sunnybrook Farm.
There she learned to love old Farmer Franklin's son Walter. Young Walter
Franklin was a modern agriculturist. He had a telephone in his cow house, and
he 5) … (CAN) figure up exactly what
effect next year's Canada wheat crop would have on potatoes planted in the dark
of the moon.
It was in this shaded and raspberried lane
that Walter had won her. And together they had sat and woven a crown of
dandelions for her hair. He had immoderately praised the effect of the yellow
blossoms against her brown tresses.
They were to marry in the spring, at the very
first signs of spring, Walter said. And Sarah came back to the city to pound
her typewriter.
A knock at the door dispelled Sarah's visions
of that happy day. A waiter 6) … (BRING)
the rough pencil draft of the Home Restaurant's next day fare in old
Schulenberg's angular hand.
Sarah 7)
… (SIT) down to her typewriter and
slipped a card between the rollers. She was a nimble worker. Generally in an
hour and a half the twenty-one menu cards 8)
… (WRITE) and ready.
Task 2. Fill in the gaps A – F with the words
derived from the words in brackets.
Sarah's fingers danced like midgets above a
summer stream. She worked, giving each item its position. Carrots and peas,
asparagus on toast, the tomatoes and corn, beans, cabbage and then...
Sarah was crying over her bill of fare. Tears
from the depths of some divine despair rose in her heart and gathered to her
eyes. Down went her head on the little typewriter stand; and the keyboard rattled
a dry A) … (ACCOMPANY) to her moist
sobs.
For she had received no letter from Walter in
two weeks, and the next item on the bill of fare was dandelions, dandelions
with lemon juice! Dandelions, with whose golden blooms Walter had crowned her!
Dandelions – B) … (REMIND) of her
happiest days!
Sarah forced back her tears. The cards must
be written. But, still in a faint, golden glow from her dandeleonine dream, she
fingered the typewriter keys absently for a little while, with her mind and
heart in the meadow lane with her young farmer. But soon she came C) … (SWIFT) back to the rock-bound
lanes of Manhattan, and the typewriter began to rattle and jump like a
strike-breaker's motor car.
At 6 o'clock the waiter brought her dinner
and carried away the typewritten bill of fare. When Sarah ate she set aside,
with a sigh, the dish of dandelions. Sarah could not bring herself to eat the
dandelions that had graced, as ornaments, the first spiritual banquet of her
heart's true D) … (AFFECT).
At 7:30 the front doorbell rang and a strong
voice was heard in the hall below, and Sarah jumped for her door. She reached
the top of the stairs just as her E) …
(FARM) came up, three at a jump, and reaped and garnered her, with nothing
left for the gleaners.
"Why haven't you written--oh, why?"
cried Sarah.
"New York is a pretty large town,"
said Walter Franklin. "I came in a week ago to your old address. I found
that you went away on a Thursday. But it didn't prevent my hunting for you with
police and otherwise ever since!
"I wrote!" said Sarah, F) … (DESPERATE).
"Never got it!"
"Then how did you find me?"
The young farmer smiled. "I dropped into
that Home Restaurant next door this evening," said he. "I ran my eye
down that nice typewritten bill of fare and when I got below cabbage I turned
my chair over and hollered for the proprietor. He told me where you
lived."
"I remember," sighed Sarah,
happily. "That was dandelions below cabbage."
"I'd know that cranky capital W 'way
above the line that your G) …
(TYPEWRITE) makes anywhere in the
world," said Franklin.
"Why, there's no W in dandelions,"
said Sarah, in surprise.
The young man drew the bill of fare from his
pocket, and pointed to a line. Between the hard-boiled eggs and the stuffed
green peppers was the item: "DEAREST WALTER, WITH LEMON JUICE".
Приложение 3.
No story
Adapted story by O. Henry
Read the text, at every stop answer
the questions in the gaps, choosing from 4 variants, then go on reading.
I worked
in a newspaper. One day Tripp came in and leaned on my table. Tripp was something. He was about twenty-five
and looked forty. He was
pale and unhealthy and miserable and
always was borrowing money
from twenty-five cents to a dollar. One dollar was his limit. When he leaned on
my table he held one hand with the other to keep from shaking. Whisky.
Tripp
was looking more miserable than
I had ever seen him. “Have you got a dollar?” asked he looking at me with his
dog-like eyes.
That day
I had managed to get
five dollars for my Sunday story. “I have five,” I said, “and I had hard work
getting them. And I need them all.”
“I don’t
want to borrow any,”
said Tripp, “I thought you would like to get a good story. I’ve got a really
fine one for you. It will probably cost you
a dollar or two to get the stuff.
I don’t want anything for myself.” “What is the story?” I asked.
Stop 1. Answer the question: What did the
author do?
1.
The
author gave Tripp one dollar.
2.
The
author didn’t like Tripp’s story and asked him not to come again.
3.
The
author was furious because Tripp told him the story the author had written
himself and published in his newspaper two weeks ago.
4.
Give
your own variant.
“It’s
girl. A beauty. She has lived all her life on Long Island and never saw New York City before. I ran against
her on Thirty-fourth Street. She stopped me in the street and asked me where
she could find George Brown, find him in New York City! What do you think of
that? I talked to her.
Some
years ago George set off for New
York to make his fortune. He didn’t come back. Now there is a young
farmer named Dodd she is going to marry next week. But Ada — her name is Ada
Lowery – couldn’t forget George, so this morning she saddled a horse and rode
eight miles to the railway station to catch the 6.45 a.m. train. She came to
the city to look for George.
She must have thought the first
person she asked would tell her where her George was! You must see her! What
could I do? She had paid her last cent for her railroad ticket. I couldn’t
leave her in the street, could I? I took her to a cheap hotel. And she has to pay for the room, too.”
”That’s
no story,” said I. “Every ferry-boat brings or takes away girls from Long Island.”
Tripp looked disappointed. “Can’t you see
what an amazing story it would make? You will get fifteen dollars for it. And
it will cost you only four, so you will make a profit of eleven dollars.”
“How
will it cost me four dollars?” I asked suspiciously.
“One
dollar for her room, two dollars to pay the girl’s fare back home and one
dollar to me,” said Tripp. “Don’t you see,” he insisted, “That the girl has to get back home today?”
And then
I began to feel what is known as
the sense of duty. In a kind of cold anger I put on my coat and hat. But
I swore to myself that
Tripp wouldn’t get the dollar.
Stop 2. Answer the question: What happened to Ada
Lowery?
1.
When
the author and Tripp came to the hotel there was no Ada Lowery in it.
2.
The
author took pity on the girl and her story and gave her money for a ticket
back.
3.
The
author knew George Brown and helped the girl find him.
4.
Give
your own variant.
Tripp
took me to the hotel. I paid the money.
In a
dark hall a girl sat crying quietly and eating sweets out of paper bag. She was
a real beauty. Crying only made her eyes brighter.
“My
friend, Mr. Chalmers. He is a reporter,” said Tripp “and he will tell you, Miss
Lowery, what’s best to do.”
I felt ashamed of being introduced as
Tripp’s friend to such a beauty. “Why- er — Miss Lowery,” I began feeling
terribly awkward, “will you
tell me what has happened?”
“Oh,”
said Miss Lowery,” You see, everything is ready for me to marry Hiram Dodd next Thursday. He’s got one
of the best farms on the island. But last night I got to thinking about G –
George — ”
“You
see, I can’t help it.
George and I loved each other since we were children. Four years ago he went to
the city. He said he was going to be a policeman, a railroad president or
something. And then he would come back for me. But I never heard from him
anymore. And I – I – like
him.”
“Now,
Miss Lowery,” said Tripp,
“you like this young man, Dodd, don’t you? He’s all right, and good to you,
isn’t he?”
“Of
course, I like him. And of course, he is good to me. He’s promised me an
automobile and a motor-boat. But somehow I couldn’t stop thinking about George. Something must have happened to him or he
would have written. On the day he left, he got a hammer and a chisel (зубило) and cut a cent into two pieces. I took one piece and
he took the other, and we promised to be true to each other and always keep the
pieces till we saw each other again. I’ve got mine at home. I guess it was
silly of me to come here. I never realized what a big place it is.”
Stop 3. Answer the question: What happened at the end
of the story?
1.
In the end the author and Tripp persuaded Miss Lowery to go back home.
2.
George Brown waited for Miss Lowery in Long Island, he told her about
his love and they married after some time.
3.
The author wrote a novel about Ada and George and became a popular
writer.
4.
Give your own variant.
Then
Tripp spoke with an awkward little
laugh. “Oh, the boys from the country forget a lot when they come to the city.
May be, he met another girl or something. You come back home, and you’ll be all
right.”
In the
end we persuaded Miss
Lowery to go back home. The three of us hurried to the ferry, and
there I found the price for the ticket to be but a dollar and eighty cents. I
bought one, and a red, red rose with twenty cents for Miss Lowery. We saw
her aboard her
ferry-boat and stood watching her wave her handkerchief at us. And then Tripp and I faced each other.
“Can’t
you get a story out of it?” he asked. “Some sort of a story?”
“Not a
line,” I said.
“I’m
sorry,” he said quietly. Then Tripp unbuttoned his shabby coat to get something that had once
been a handkerchief. As he did
so I saw something shining on his cheap watch-chain. It has the half of a silver cent that had been
cut in halves with a
chisel.
“What?!”
I exclaimed. «Is that
you?!!»
“Oh
yes,” he answered. George Brown, or Tripp. What’s the use?
Приложение 4.
The last leaf (part 1)
Adapted story by O. Henry
Listen to the story
and choose the right answer to the questions 1 – 5. (Cсылка на аудиозапись: https://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Last_Leaf-_By_O_Henry.html)
1.
Who was an unseen
stranger that came to visit the city in November?
a)
It was a doctor who
came to examine Johnsy.
b)
Speaking about an
unseen stranger the author means the disease, pneumonia, which killed many
people.
c)
Sue’s friend was an
unseen stranger.
2.
The doctor said
that Johnsy would have a chance if she …
a)
wanted to live.
b)
thought about a
man.
c)
painted the Bay of
Naples in Italy.
3.
When Sue was making
pictures for magazine stories, she heard a low sound, several times repeated.
It was Johnsy’s voice, she was counting …
a)
bricks in the blank
side of the house seven meters away.
b)
branches of an old
ivy vine, climbing up the wall of the old building.
c)
leaves on old ivy
vine, climbing up the wall of the old building.
4.
Johnsy thought that
she would die when …
a)
the last leaf fell.
b)
the winter came.
c)
three days passed.
5.
What did Sue say to
cheer Johnsy up?
a)
The doctor told Sue
that Johnsy’s chances for getting well real soon were one to ten.
b)
The doctor told Sue
that Johnsy’s chances for getting well real soon were ten to one.
c)
Old ivy leaves
could do nothing with Johnsy’s getting well.
Audioscript
Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of
New York. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy shared a studio apartment at the
top of a three-story building. Johnsy’s real name was Joanna.
In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit
the city. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people. Johnsy lay on her bed,
hardly moving. She looked through the small window. She could see the side of
the brick house next to her building.
One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy and took her
temperature. Then he spoke with Sue in another room. “She has one chance in -
let us say ten”, - he said. “And that chance is for her to want to live. Your
friend has made up her mind that she is not going to get well. Has she anything
on her mind?” “She … she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples in Italy some day”, - said Sue.
“Paint?” - said the doctor. “Bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking
twice - a man for example?” “A man?” -
said Sue. “Is a man worth? But, no, doctor; there is nothing of the
kind”. “I will do all that science can do”, - said the doctor. “But whenever my
patient begins to count the carriages at her funeral, I take away fifty percent
from the curative power of medicines”.
After the doctor had gone, Sue went into the
workroom and cried. Then she went to Johnsy’s room with her drawing board,
whistling ragtime. Johnsy lay with her face toward the window. Sue stopped
whistling, thinking she was asleep. She began making a pen and ink drawing for
a story in a magazine. Young artists must work their way to ‘Art’ by making
pictures for magazine stories.
Sue heard a low sound, several times repeated. She
went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy’s eyes were open wide. She was looking out
the window and counting – counting backward. “Twelve”, - she said, and a little
later. – “eleven”; and then “ten” and “nine” and then “eight” and “seven” –
almost together. Sue looked out the window. What was there to count? There was
only an empty yard and the blank side of the house seven metres away. An old
ivy vine, going bad at the roots, climbed half way up the wall. The cold breath
of autumn had stricken leaves from the plant until its branches, almost bare,
hung on the bricks. “What is it, dear?” - asked Sue. “Six”, - said Johnsy, quietly.
“They’re falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It
made my head hurt to count them. But now it’s easy. There goes another one.
There are only five left now”. “Five what, dear?” - asked Sue. “Leaves. On the
plant. When the last one falls, I must go, too. I’ve known that for three days.
Didn’t the doctor tell you?” “Oh, I never heard of such a thing”, - said Sue.
“What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And you used to love
that vine. Don’t be silly. Why, the doctor told me this morning that your
chances for getting well real soon were – let’s see exactly what he said – he
said the chances were ten to one! Try to eat some soup now. And, let me go back
to my drawing, so I can sell it to the magazine and buy food and wine for us”.
“You needn’t get any more wine”’ - said Johnsy, keeping her eyes fixed out the
window. “There goes another one. No, I don’t want any soup. That leaves just
four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I’ll go too”.
Приложение 5.
Hometask.
You have received an email message
from your English-speaking pen-friend Emma:
… I am so happy that summer has come. Our Literature teacher advised us
to read more during our long holiday. I would like to choose one writer and
study his work. What book have you read recently? Who is the author and what do
you know about him? What book would you recommend me to read?
Write an email to Emma.
In your message:
-
answer
his questions,
-
ask
3 questions about reading.
Write 100-140 words. Remember the
rules of email writing.
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