Упр.1 Unit 8 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 5 класс
Here is a foreword to one of the most popular children’s books.
Which paragraph is about the author? Which paragraph is about the book character? (reading for the main idea)
A. James Matthew Barrie [d?eimz ‘mae?ju: ‘baeri] (1860–1937) was a writer. He was born in Scotland in 1860. He was the ninth of the ten children in the family. He studied at Edinburgh University. He started to work as a journalist, then he began to write novels and stories. He wrote many novels and stories, but we know him as the author of Peter Pan.
B. J. M. Barrie wrote his famous play Peter Pan in 1904. Since that time it has become a regular event. Every Christmas children in England, the USA and other English-speaking countries can watch at the theatre the fantasy about a boy who didn’t want to be an adult and who went to Never-Never Land. In 1911 Barrie wrote Peter Pan in novel form. In 1951 W. Disney made a Peter Pan cartoon. In England there are two monuments to Peter Pan—one statue is in London in Kensington Gardens, the second—in Liverpool.
What did you learn about J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan? Make up sentences.
a) J. M. Barrie
b) Peter Pan
was wrote is a play a boy a novel a novelist a playwright a cartoon a statue a writer
1) Paragraph A is about the author. Paragraph B is about the book character.
2)
- J. M. Barrie was a writer, a novelist and a playwright.
- Peter Pan is a boy, a play, a novel, a cartoon and a statue.
