Complete the following sentences using the words from Task 4.

1. Dreiser’s ______ towards bourgeois society was extremely negative.

2. It is impossible to overestimate the______ of Mark Twain into American literature.

3. Patrick White was the first Australian writer who _______ the Noble Prize.

4. Graham Green ______ a lot of problems in his novels, among them the ____ of human life, the policy of large states, moral issues.

5. E. Hemingway made a great ______ into revealing the essence of war.

6. Uncle Tom’s Hut by H. Beacher-Stowe helped to __________the positions of abolitionists.

7. The book of John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath struck a______ to the policy of capitalists towards farmers and season workers.

8. James Joyce ________ stream of consciousness into his _______ novel Ulysses.

9. Romantic poets were sure that artists should not______ their imagination and methods of expression.

Fill in the missing words. In some cases, there may be more than one possibility.

Orwell’s life story [55]

Born in India _______ (1) Eric Blair, he came _____ (2) England as a _______ (3) boy to be ___ v(4) at a private prep- _____ (5). He completed _____(6) private education _____(7) Eton College but did not _______(8) on to university. _____ (9) joined the Burmese police force _____ (10) resigned in 1928. He refused _____ (11) promote the British imperialist policy. He ____(12) as a tramp _____ (13)to ____(14) experience for the _____ (15) called Down and Out _____ (16) Paris and London. ______ (17) the pseudonym George Orwell he _____ (18) novels and newspaper ______ (19). Being politically independent and honest, he ______ (20) ready to say uncomfortable ____ (21) to ____ (22) left and right wings. He fought in _____ (23) Spanish Civil War _____ (24) the side _____ (25) the anarchists (in 1938 he published a book called Homage ____ (26) Catalonia). _____ (27) the Second World War he_____(28) as a journalist. He became famous _____ (29) his two _____ (30) novels – Animal Farm and 1984. He died _____ (31) tuberculosis in 1950.

 

7. Render the biography [56] of Ernest Hemingway into English.

Эрнест Миллер Хемингуэй (Ernest Miller Hemingway) родился 21 июля 1899 года в Оук-Парке, штат Иллинойс (США) в семье врача. Эрнест, старший сын из шести детей, учился в нескольких школах Оук-Парка, писал рассказы и стихотворения в школьных газетах.

Первый успех пришел к Хемингуэю в 1926 году после выхода в свет романа "И восходит солнце" ("Фиеста") о французских и испанских репатриантах 1920-х годов. В этой книге писатель выразил настроения "потерянного поколения". Роман создал Хемингуэю репутацию многообещающего молодого писателя. В 1927 он завершил свой второй роман "Прощай, оружие", который имел огромный успех, как у критики, так и у широкого читателя.

В 1930-е годы писатель проводил много времени он проводил на сафари в Африке, корридах в Испании, а также на рыбалке в американском штате Флорида. К главным произведениям этого периода относятся рассказ об испанской корриде "Смерть после полудня" (1932), дневник первого сафари писателя "Зеленые холмы Африки" (1935), повесть "Иметь и не иметь" (1937).

В 1937 году во время гражданской войны в Испании (1936-1939), собрав деньги для республиканцев, писатель отправился на фронт в качестве военного корреспондента и сценариста документального фильма "Земля Испании", который снимал голландский режиссер Йорис Ивенс.

В 1940-е годы он купил дом под Гаваной на Кубе и совершил поездку в Китай, где в это время шла японо-китайская война. Хемингуэй принимал участие во Второй мировой войне. В августе 1944 года вошел с американскими войсками в Париж. За храбрость он был удостоен Бронзовой звезды.

В 1952 году была напечатана повесть Хемингуэя «Старик и море», за которую в 1954 году ему была присуждена Нобелевская премия по литературе. 2 июня 1961 года выстрелом из ружья Эрнест Хемингуэй покончил с собой.

 

Prepare questions about E. Hemingway and put them to your groupmates.

 

CASE-STUDY

1. George Orwell once said that England was the most class ridden country in the world. This was in the year 1941. The WWII had an impact on the class distinctions. Everyone, the rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, suffered from the hardships of war, or killed during air raids or while fighting at home or abroad during WWII.

In groups, fill in the chart.

Items	Before	After
Class system Education Political situation England as a world power

 

2. Can you think of anything else to put in the left hand column that might have been changed by the war?

3. Find out in what works of English writers class distinctions were tackled.

 

DISCUSSION

1. Read and translate the terms and slogans from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by G. Orwell.

HATE WEEK                   BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU THOUGHT POLICE         MINSTRY OF TRUTH         NEWSPEAK OLDSPEAK            MINISTRY OF LOVE MINSTRY OF PEACE WAR IS PEACE               FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

2. It is the year 1984, we are in London, Oceania, one of the three parts of the world. The words in the frame are some common terms and slogans of that society. What do they tell us about how the society worked and what life was like?

 

WRITING

1. Read and translate an abstract from the play Look back in Anger by John Osborne (1929- 1994).

 

Jimmy: What about the tea?

Cliff (behind the paper): What tea?

Alison: Put the kettle on. (Alison looks up at him)

Alison: Do you want some more tea?

Jimmy: I don’t know. I don’t think so.

Alison: Do you want some, Cliff?

Jimmy: No, he doesn’t. How much longer will you be doing that?

Alison: Won’t be long.

Jimmy: God, how I hate Sundays! It’s always so depressing, always the same. We never seem to get any further, do we? Always the same ritual. Reading the papers, drinking tea, ironing. A few more hours, and another week gone. Our youth is slipping away. Do you know that?

Cliff (throws paper down): What’s that?

Jimmy (casually): Oh, nothing, nothing. Damn you, damn both of you, damn them all.

Cliff: Let’s go to the pictures.(To Alison) What do you say, lovely?

Alison: I don’t think I’ll be able o. Perhaps Jimmy would like to go. (To Jimmy) Would you like to?

Jimmy: And have my enjoyment ruined by the Sunday knight yobs in the front row? No, thank you. (Pause) Did you read Priestley’s piece this week? Why on earth I ask I don’t know. I know damned well you haven’t. Why do I spend ninepence on that damned paper every week? Nobody reads it except me. Nobody can be bothered. No one can raise themselves out of their delicious sloth. You two will drive me round the bend soon – I know it, as sure as I am sitting here. I know you’re going to drive me mad. Oh, heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human Alison. Just enthusiasm - that’s all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! (He bangs his breast theatrically). Hallelujah! I’m alive. I’ve an idea. Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and that we’re actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let’s pretend we’re human (He looks from one to the other). Oh, brother, it’s such a long time since I was with anyone who got enthusiastic about anything.

 

Glossary:

Damn you – go to hell

Yobs – mobs of youngsters (slang)

Sloth –laziness

Drive someone round the bend – make someone crazy

 

2. Answer the questions:

1. Can you guess the relationship between the three characters – Jimmy, Cliff and Alison?

2. Which day is it?

3. Is there a possible connection between the name of this group of writers and how Jimmy feels?

4. Jimmy represents many young people of his generation. This was one of the reasons why the play had an enormous success. Why else do you think it was so well accepted?