ВУЗ:
Составители:
Рубрика:
sailor - моряк
boat - лодка
pilot - лоцман
gold-mine - золотой рудник, прииск
to publish - публиковать
journalist - журналист
to get married - жениться
adventure - приключение
grown-up - взрослый
boatman - лодочник
shout - крик
deep – глубина
9.2.2 Answer the questions:
1. What was Mark Twain's real name? Why did he choose such a pen name?
2. Where and when was the famous American writer born?
3. At what age did he begin to go to school?
4. Did Samuel like to go to school?
5. Who were the prototypes of the heroes of his stories?
6. What happened to Samuel's family when his father died?
7. Who helped Samuel to learn printing?
8. Where did Samuel work as a printer?
9. What stories did he write when he worked as a printer?
10.Why did Samuel decide to leave home in 1853? Where did he go?
11.What job did Samuel find when he was 20 years old?
12.Where did Samuel go then? Where did he work foti a year?
13.Where was Mark Twain invited to work as a journalist?
14.When did he get married? Was he happy with his family? How many
children did he have?
15.When did Mark Twain publish his best novels?
9.2.3 Read the beginning of the sentence and find its end in the text.
1. In 1870 he got married and ...
2. The pilot had to know ...
3. This meant ...
4. In summer, when school was over, ...
5. Samuel Clemens was born in ...
6. For some years Samuel worked as ...
7. In 1876 Mark Twain published his best novel ...
8. When Samuel was 20 years old ...
9. These novels are known and ...
10. When he became a writer ...
First, he went to St. Louis ...
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sailor - моряк
boat - лодка
pilot - лоцман
gold-mine - золотой рудник, прииск
to publish - публиковать
journalist - журналист
to get married - жениться
adventure - приключение
grown-up - взрослый
boatman - лодочник
shout - крик
deep – глубина
9.2.2 Answer the questions:
1. What was Mark Twain's real name? Why did he choose such a pen name?
2. Where and when was the famous American writer born?
3. At what age did he begin to go to school?
4. Did Samuel like to go to school?
5. Who were the prototypes of the heroes of his stories?
6. What happened to Samuel's family when his father died?
7. Who helped Samuel to learn printing?
8. Where did Samuel work as a printer?
9. What stories did he write when he worked as a printer?
10.Why did Samuel decide to leave home in 1853? Where did he go?
11.What job did Samuel find when he was 20 years old?
12.Where did Samuel go then? Where did he work foti a year?
13.Where was Mark Twain invited to work as a journalist?
14.When did he get married? Was he happy with his family? How many
children did he have?
15.When did Mark Twain publish his best novels?
9.2.3 Read the beginning of the sentence and find its end in the text.
1. In 1870 he got married and ...
2. The pilot had to know ...
3. This meant ...
4. In summer, when school was over, ...
5. Samuel Clemens was born in ...
6. For some years Samuel worked as ...
7. In 1876 Mark Twain published his best novel ...
8. When Samuel was 20 years old ...
9. These novels are known and ...
10. When he became a writer ...
First, he went to St. Louis ...
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