British Art (разработка устного журнала)

Цели:

- совершенствование навыков устной речи, умение излагать свои мысли в пределах изученного материала

- развитие познавательных способностей учащихся, расширение их кругозора, эрудиции и обогащение сведениями страноведческого характера

- воспитание уважения к культуре страны изучаемого языка

Ход мероприятия.

- Dear teachers, boys and girls ! You are welcome to our party. We are glad to see you! Today's party is devoted to the British Art.

Great Britain is a wonderful country. If you go to Great Britain the guide who will show you around the city will tell you at least a few things about the history of England and London in particular. He or she will tell you about the two great misfortunes that befell England in the 17th century, the Plague and the Great Fire.

You will be told about terrible air-raids and bombing during the Second World War. But you will be shown lots of historical monuments, places of interest, wonderful parks, museums which you will admire.

You may be taken to Cambridge or Oxford as well. You will see the Beautiful, the Wonderful, the Most Interesting in London and its suburbs.

In London you will see for yourself: palaces, beauty, rich ladies and gentlemen, old traditions and ceremonies. Culture of Great Britain is very rich.

You know many famous English painters, poets and writers. But the pride of English literature is William Shakespeare, the greatest English poet and playwright. Let's listen to some facts from his biography.

- The great English playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, about seventy-five miles from London.

He was the son of a tradesman. Life itself, contact with people and his acquaintance with the rich English folklore gave him more than the scholastic methods used at school.

Shakespeare lived in Stratford-upon-Avon until he was twenty-one. By that time he was married and had three children. At twenty-one he left Stratford-upon-Avon for London where he joined a theatrical company and worked as an actor and a playwright.

At the end of the 90ies a new theatre called"The Globe"was built on the bank of the Thames. The people of London liked it better than any other theatre.

It was in "The Globe"that most of Shakespeare's plays were staged at that time.

In 1613 Shakespeare left London and returned to his native town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Three years later, on April 23, 1616 he died and was buried there.

Shakespeare is the author of 2 poems, 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

Shakespeare's greatness lies in the depth of his humanism. For about four centuries Shakespeare has remained one of the best known and best loved playwrights and poets in world literature.

Every new generation of people finds in his works some problems of particular interest for it. It is because Shakespeare"belongs not to the century- but to all times"as Ben Johnson, his contemporary, once said. Now listen to Shakespeare's sonnets.

Sonnet 66

Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry

As to behold desert a beggar born,

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,

And purest faith unhappily forsworn,

And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,

And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,

And strength by limping sway disabled,

And art made tongue- tied by authority,

And folly-doctor-like-controlling skill,

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,

And captive good attending captain ill:

Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,

Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

Зову я смерть. Мне видеть невтерпеж

Достоинство, что просит подаянья,

Над простотой глумящуюся ложь,

Ничтожество в роскошном одеянье,

И совершенству ложный приговор,

И девственность, поруганную грубо,

И неуместной почести позор,

И мощь в плену у немощи беззубой,

И прямоту, что глупостью слывет,

И глупость в маске знатока искусства,

И вдохновения зажатый рот,

И служащие злу благие чувства.

Все мерзостно, что вижу я вокруг...

Но как тебя покинуть, милый друг!

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Разработка устного журнала по теме “British Art”

Цели:

- совершенствование навыков устной речи, умение излагать свои мысли в пределах изученного материала

- развитие познавательных способностей учащихся, расширение их кругозора, эрудиции и обогащение сведениями страноведческого характера

- воспитание уважения к культуре страны изучаемого языка

Оснащение:

Портрет В. Шекспира и Б. Шоу, картины Констебля и Гейнсборо, творческие работы учащихся.

Ход мероприятия:

- Dear teachers, boys and girls ! You are welcome to our party. We are glad to see you! Today's party is devoted to the British Art. Great Britain is a wonderful country. If you go to Great Britain the guide who will show you around the city will tell you at least a few things about the history of England and London in particular. He or she will tell you about the two great misfortunes that befell England in the 17th century, the Plague and the Great Fire. You will be told about terrible air-raids and bombing during the Second World War. But you will be shown lots of historical monuments, places of interest, wonderful parks, museums which you will admire. You may be taken to Cambridge or Oxford as well. You will see the Beautiful, the Wonderful, the Most Interesting in London and its suburbs. In London you will see for yourself: palaces, beauty, rich ladies and gentlemen, old traditions and ceremonies. Culture of Great Britain is very rich. You know many famous English painters, poets and writers. But the pride of English literature is William Shakespeare, the greatest English poet and playwright. Let's listen to some facts from his biography.

- The great English playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, about seventy-five miles from London. He was the son of a tradesman. Life itself, contact with people and his acquaintance with the rich English folklore gave him more than the scholastic methods used at school.

Shakespeare lived in Stratford-upon-Avon until he was twenty-one. By that time he was married and had three children. At twenty-one he left Stratford-upon-Avon for London where he joined a theatrical company and worked as an actor and a playwright.

At the end of the 90ies a new theatre called"The Globe"was built on the bank of the Thames. The people of London liked it better than any other theatre. It was in "The Globe"that most of Shakespeare's plays were staged at that time.

In 1613 Shakespeare left London and returned to his native town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Three years later, on April 23, 1616 he died and was buried there.

Shakespeare is the author of 2 poems, 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

Shakespeare's greatness lies in the depth of his humanism. For about four centuries Shakespeare has remained one of the best known and best loved playwrights and poets in world literature. Every new generation of people finds in his works some problems of particular interest for it. It is because Shakespeare"belongs not to the century- but to all times"as Ben Johnson, his contemporary, once said. Now listen to Shakespeare's sonnets.

Sonnet 66

Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry

As to behold desert a beggar born,

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,

And purest faith unhappily forsworn,

And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,

And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,

And strength by limping sway disabled,

And art made tongue- tied by authority,

And folly-doctor-like-controlling skill,

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,

And captive good attending captain ill:

Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,

Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

Зову я смерть. Мне видеть невтерпеж

Достоинство, что просит подаянья,

Над простотой глумящуюся ложь,

Ничтожество в роскошном одеянье,

И совершенству ложный приговор,

И девственность, поруганную грубо,

И неуместной почести позор,

И мощь в плену у немощи беззубой,

И прямоту, что глупостью слывет,

И глупость в маске знатока искусства,

И вдохновения зажатый рот,

И служащие злу благие чувства.

Все мерзостно, что вижу я вокруг...

Но как тебя покинуть, милый друг!

Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak- yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go,-

My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Ее глаза на звезды не похожи,

Нельзя уста кораллами назвать,

Не белоснежна плеч открытых кожа,

И черной проволокой вьется прядь.

С дамасской розой, алой или белой,

Нельзя сравнить оттенок этих щек.

А тело пахнет так, как пахнет тело,

Не как фиалки нежный лепесток.

Ты не найдешь в ней совершенных линий,

Особенного света на челе.

Не знаю я как шествуют богини,

Но милая ступает по земле.

И все ж она уступит тем едва ли,

Кого в сравненьях пышных оболгали.

Звучит сонет Шекспира на музыку Таривердиева"Я виноват."

Исполняет ансамбль "Меридиан".

-The next item of our party is quiz about Shakespeare's creative work.

1.What girl falls in love with a man before she sees his face or knows his name?

Juliet, in "Romeo and Juliet"

2.Who calls his own murder "foul and most unnatural"?

The Ghost, in "Hamlet."

3.Who says as he dies:"I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, Killing

myself, to die upon a kiss"?

Othello, in "Othello."

4.In which play do three males wear feminine clothes?

"The Merry Wives of Windsor."

5.Whose last words are: "Thus with a kiss I die"?

Romeo's in "Romeo and Juliet."

6.Who says:"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

To have a thankless child!"?

King Lear

7.What girl tells a young man when he first kisses her that he kisses"by the book"?

Juliet, in "Romeo and Juliet."

8.Which father has three daughters?

King Lear.

9.Who"loved not wisely but too well"?

Othello.

10.Who in speaking of his wife says:"She is my goods, my chattels, my field, my barn. My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing?"

Petruchio, in"The Taming of the Shrew."

-Now let's speak about theatres in England. The centre of theatrical activity is London, where it is concentrated mainly in London's West End. Theatres are very much the same in London as anywhere else. If you are staying in London for a few days, you will have no difficulty in finding somewhere to spend an evening. You will find opera, comedy, dramas, musical comedy, variety. The performances start at about eight and finish at about eleven. Seats are expensive and a night out at a theatre is quite a luxury for the average Londoners. Most theatres and music halls have good orchestras with popular conductors.

All else in the modern theatre must take second place to the achievement of George Bernard Shaw. He wrote over 50 plays and was the creator of a real new publicist drama. Without doubt Shaw gave a new vitality to English drama by proving that it may be a vehicle for the expression of progressive and independent ideas. His greatest gift was his verbal wit. It is well illustrated by this story. Listen to it and render in Russian.

It was the first night of Arms and the Man, a play which had an enthusiastic reception from a crowded house. When the curtain fell at the end of the last act there was tremendous applause, accompanied by insistent calls for the author to appear. One man in the gallery, however, kept whistling, thereby expressing his disapproval.

Shaw appeared before the curtain and waited in silence until the applause had died down. Then, looking up at that critic, he said:"I quite agree with you, sir, but what can we two do against all these people?"

-Shaw is famous for his brilliant dialogues. Now you will see a scene based on Shaw’s ”Pygmalion.” Characters of the scene are: Mr. Higgins, a professor of phonetics; Eliza Doolittle, a street flower girl; Mrs.Pearce, Higgins's housekeeper and Mr. Pickering.

Mrs.P.: This is the young woman, sir.

E.:I'm come to have lessons, I am. And to pay for em too: make no mistake.

H.:Well! What do you expect me to say to you?

E.:Well, if you was a gentleman, you might ask me to sit down, I think.

Don't I tell you I'm bringing you business?

H.: Pickering, shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we throw her out of the window?

E.:Ah-ah -oh- ow- ow- oo! I won't be called a baggage when I've offered to pay like any lady.

P.:But what is it you want, my girl?

E.:I want to be a lady in flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him-not asking any favor- and he treats me as if I was dirt.

Mrs.P.: How can you be such a foolish ignorant girl as to think you could afford to pay Mr. Higgins?

E.:Why shouldn't I? I know what lessons cost as well as you do; and I am ready to pay.

H.: How much?

E.:Now you're talking!

H.:Sit down.

E.:Oh, if you're going to make a compliment of it-

H.:Sit down.

Mrs.P.:Sit down, girl. Do as you're told.

H.:What's your name?

E.:Liza Doolittle.

H.:Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess,

They went to the woods to get a bird's nest.

P.:They found a nest with four eggs in it.

H.:They took one a piece, and left three in it.

E.:Oh, don't be silly.

Mrs.P.:You mustn't speak to the gentleman like that.

E.:Well, why won't he speak sensible to me?

H.:Come back to business. How much do you propose to pay me for the lessons?

E.:Oh, I know what's right. So I won't give more than a shilling. Take it or leave it.

H.:A millionaire has about 150$ a day. She earns about half-a- crown.

E.:Who told you I only-

H.:It's handsome. It's the biggest offer I ever had.

E.:What are you talking about? Where would I get-

H.:Hold your tongue.

E.:But I ain't got sixty pounds. Oh-

H.:Somebody is going to touch you with a broomstick, if you don't stop crying. Sit down.

E.:Ah- ah- ah-ow-oo-o! One would think you was my father.

H.:If I decide to teach you, I'll be worse than two fathers to you. Here!

(He offers her his silk handkerchief.)

E.:What's this for?

H.:To wipe your eyes. Remember: that's your handkerchief and that's your sleeve. Don't mistake the one for the other if you wish to become a lady in a shop.

Mrs.P.:She doesn't understand you. She doesn't do it that way at all.(She takes the handkerchief.)

E.:Here! You give me that handkerchief. He gev it to me, not to you.

P.:Higgins, I'm interested. And I'll pay for the lessons.

E.:Oh, you are real good. Thank you, Captain.

H.:In six months-in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue-I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as anything. Take her away and clean her, Mrs.Pearce.

Mrs.P.:Yes, but-

H.:Take all her clothes off and burn them.

E.:You're no gentleman, you're not, to talk of such things.

H.:Take her away, Mrs.Pearce.

P.:Oh, Higgins! be reasonable.

H.:All I propose is that we should be kind to this poor girl.

-Dear guests! You are welcome to our art gallery devoted to famous English painters: Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable. Thomas Gainsborough, a pupil of William Hogarth, the father of English painting, represents the epoch of the "Golden Age."It is the period between the 1730s and the 1830s which is rightly considered to be the "Golden Age"of the English painting as never in any other age did England contribute so much to the history of world art.

Among the English masters of that period the most outstanding and original ones were William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, William Turner.

Certain feature of the development of English society determined the peculiarities of English art of that time. Right from the very beginning English artists worked almost exceptionally for some private persons. It was because of this that quite definite genres such as portrait, landscape and genre-painting evolved here.

For a long time painting was the principal or it can be said the national genre of the English school. Throughout the 18th century portrait painting continued to take the leading role in English art.

-Not many English painters were among the really great artists of the world, but John Constable was one of them..

Constable was born at East Bergholt in Suffolk. "...scenes of my boyhood,"he wrote,"made me a painter."His father was a miller, who wanted his son to be a miller like himself or a parson.After a long struggle, Constable at last managed to get to London to study painting, where his vocation was confirmed. But, to earn his living, he had to accept hack-work; portraits, pictures of parks and mansions, church pictures and even once, a sign. It was some time before his genius came to be recognized. Until 1820 his pictures, regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, passed unnoticed. At last his "Flatford Mill"drew attention to him in 1820. It was in France, that Constable'‘s pictures, hung in the famous Salon of 1824, had their first great success. The year 1826 was that of the "Cornfield."It was to become the most popular of all his paintings.

Constable felt, saw and expressed the beauty of the English countryside in its most lasting and deep-rooted forms.

-Gainsborough was born at Sudbury in Suffolk. He was the youngest of the nine children in the family. He went to school in his native town. He liked to spend his spare hours walking in the woods and drawing. When a boy he was very good at drawing, and according to a story about him, he made such a good portrait from memory of a thief whom he had seen robbing a garden that the thief was caught.

Gainsborough's portraits are painted in clear tones. Gainsborough's colour is always tender and soft. Green, blue, grey and yellow colours predominate in his pictures. Gainsborough often placed his figures against a landscape background, and there is always harmony between them.

Among his most famous portraits are the portrait of Mrs. Siddons, a famous actress in a blue dress, and the picture known as "The Blue Boy"-a boy in a blue costume standing out on a background of brown and green landscape.

Gainsborough was fond of painting landscapes. He loved the country-side of his childhood and used to say that nature was his best teacher. "The Suffolk country-side made me a painter,"he said.

Gainsborough felt deeply what he wished to express, and his brush transferred these feelings to the canvas. His pictures are full of poetry and music.

-Now listen to some words about the rock-group "Depeche Mode."This group was formed in early 1980. The group consists of four men. When they were young they played in London's "Bridge House Pub."They were unknown for audience because it seemed that their music was boring and mechanical. Alan Bilder brought a success to "Depeche Mode."The disc "Music for mass"was very popular. Nowadays the "Depeche Mode"is one of the most popular group among young people. Listen to some songs, please.

-Now our party is over. You took an active part in our party and showed good knowledge of English. I think that everything you know about British art will help you in your further life. Thank you everybody.