Английский язык. Методические указания. Иванова С.Г. - 40 стр.

Aunt Polly was his mother; Tom's brother Sid was like Mark Twain's brother Henry.
     When Samuel was 11 years old, his father died, leaving nothing to his wife and
four children. Samuel had to leave school and look for work. His elder brother was
working as a printer and he helped Samuel to learn printing. For some years Samuel
worked as a printer for the town newspaper and wrote short humorous stories for the
newspaper.
     In 1853 Samuel decided to leave home. He wanted to be a sailor. First, he went
to St. Louis, then to New York, then to Philadelphia. When-Samuel was 20 years old
he found a job on a boat travelling up and down the Mississippi. On that boat he
learned the work of a pilot. The pilot had to know the river very well when he took a
ship along it.
     Then Samuel Clemens went to California and worked on gold-mines for a year.
There he continued writing humorous stories. He sent them to newspapers under the
pen name of Mark Twain. The publishers and readers liked his stories. Mark Twain
was invited to work as a journalist for a newspaper.
     In 1870 he got married, and a new and happy life began for him. He had one son
and three daughters. He loved his family very much.
     In 1876 Mark Twain published his best novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and in 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
     These novels are known and loved by children and grown-ups all over the
world.

      9.2 Post -Text Exercises

      9.2.1 Pronounce the following words and proper names:

     Mark Twain - Марк Твен
     Ernest Hemingway - Эрнест Хемингуэй
     Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Сэмюэль Лэнгхорн Клеменс
     the State of Missouri - штат Миссури
     the Missouri River - река Миссури
     New York - Нью Йорк
     St. Louis - Сент Луис
     Philadelphia - Филадельфия
     the Mississippi - Миссисипи
     California - Калифорния
     Tom Sawyer - Том Сойер
     Huckleberry Finn - Гекльберри Финн
     real - настоящий
     pen name - псевдоним
     portrait - описание, портрет
     to look for - искать
     printer - типограф
     printing - печатание
     humorous - юмористический
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