Упр.1 Модуль 8d ГДЗ Spotlight 11 класс

1. Look at the title and describe the picture. Have you read this novel? Who are the people who have caught Gulliver? Read the biography to find out.

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. At school, he was described as headstrong and not a very good student. Later, however, he became a popular satirical author and journalist, and one of the most important figures in literary and political life in London during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714).

Some of his most famous works include The Battle of the Books (1697) and A Tale of a Tub (1704). Swift’s best-known work is Gulliver’s Travels (1726), the story of a surgeon’s adventures in strange lands. Swift’s descriptions of Gulliver’s journeys often seemed so realistic that many readers believed that they were true! In the first part, Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall.