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Title: Famous English-speaking writers.


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Famous English-speaking writers.
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Daniel Defoe
  • Is a famous English writer of the eighteenth
    century.
  • He was born in 1660.
  • He wrote his world famous novel The Life and
    Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

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Active vocabulary
  • To write
  • A writer
  • A century
  • A novel
  • Strange
  • Surprising
  • Adventures
  • Was based
  • A sailor
  • Alone
  • Desert island
  • However
  • To contain
  • To become
  • Everyone
  • To believe
  • To learn
  • To catch goats
  • To make pots
  • An umbrella

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Card 1
  • Daniel Defoe was a famous English writer of the
    eighteenth century.
  • His world famous novel was The Life and Strange
    Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
  • When the book was published in 1719, it
    immediately became popular.
  • Daniel Defoe didnt write his book for children.
    But every child knows Robinson Crusoe, how he
    learned to catch goats and to make pots
  • Daniel Defoe wrote many other books, but for
    Robinson Crusoe he is called the father of
    English prose.

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  • the eighteenth century
  • world famous novel
  • surprising adventures
  • to live alone
  • Island (desert)
  • a lot of
    imagination
  • was
    published
  • became
    popular

  • believed
  • made an
    umbrella

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Mark Twain
  • The real name of this writer was Samuel Clements.
  • He was born in 1835 in the United States.
  • In 1876 he wrote The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
    This book made him famous.

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Active vocabulary
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  • Rich - ???????
  • To go to work ????? ????????
  • A newspaper - ??????
  • A printer - ????????
  • A reporter - ????????
  • To continue - ??????????
  • A pilot - ??????

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Card 2
  • The real name of Mark Twain was Samuel Clements.
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  • His family was not rich and he went to work at
    the age of 12.
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    12 ???.
  • For (? ???????) 2 years he worked for his elder
    brothers small newspaper as printer and
    reporter.
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  • In 1857 he became a pilot on the Mississippi
    river but continued to write.
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    ????????? ??????.
  • In 1876 he wrote The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
    This book made him famous.
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    ????? ??????? ??? ?????????.
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