Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому
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“In the world of English poetry”
С1: Good morning our dear students and teachers ! Welcome to our English party which is
called “In The World Of English Poetry”. This party is devoted to the famous English poets of
the past: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, George Gordon Byron,
Rudyard Kipling,William Henry Davies
С2:
You know that all people like travelling. Some travel around their country, others travel abroad.
Some people are fond of travelling into the future, others prefer to travel into the past. We invite
you, our dear guests, to have an exciting trip into the remote past with the help of our imaginary
Time Machine. It will carry you into the beautiful world of English poetry.
С1:
Make the first turn of our Time Machine and you will find yourselves in the 14th century when
the greatest English poet Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked.
Student – 1: (1 s KSHO)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – 1400) was the first great writer in English literature and is called the
“father of English poetry”. He was born in London in the family of a wine merchant in 1340. At
17, Chaucer became a page to a lady at the court of Edward III. At 20, he was in France, serving
as esquire. During 1373 and the next few years Chaucer travelled much and lived a busy life. He
went to France and made three journeys to Italy. Italian literature opened to Chaucer a new world
of art.
Student – 2: ( 1s KSFD)
When Chaucer came back to London, he received the post of Controller of the Customs in the
port of London. He held his position for 10 years, but his duties grew very tiresome to the poet.
And he asked the King several times for permission to give up his post. Finally, the King granted
him a pension so that Chaucer could devote more time to his writings. Chaucer died in 1400 and
was buried in Westminster Abbey. Geoffrey Chaucer was the last English writer of the Middle
Ages and the first of the Renaissance.
Student – 3: ( 2a KSHO) There are 3 periods in Chaucer’s literary activity: the French Period when “The Romance of the
Rose” was written; the Italian Period when he wrote such poems as “The House of Fame”, “The
Parliament of Birds”, “The Legend of Good Women” and the English Period. It was at this time
when he wrote his masterpiece, “The Canterbury Tales”.
Student – 4: (3 a KSFD)
“The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims who were
travelling from London to Canterbury. Chaucer opens his work with a prologue to the whole
story. It acquaints the reader with medieval society. The pilgrims are persons of different social
ranks and occupations. There is a knight, a yeoman, a nun, a monk, a merchant, a clerk, Chaucer
himself and others. Each of the travellers tells a different kind of story showing his own views
and character. Some are comical, gay, witty or romantic, others are serious and even tragic.
С2: Poetry is like a charming woman. It can easily infatuate you and then frustrate your hopes. It
mesmerizes you and turns into a slave using only one weapon – its beauty as women do using
their eyes. Rudyard Kipling knew it. Meet Batyrova Lunara .She is going to recite “The lovers
Litany” by Rudyard Kipling.
Batyrova Lunara: “The lovers Litany”! С1:
The next destination of our Time Machine is a small provincial town of Stratfordon
Avon where William Shakespeare, the great poet and dramatist, was born.
Student – 5: (3s KSFD)
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was born on April 23rd, 1564 in the family of a
prosperous tradesman. In his childhood William went to the Stratford Grammar
School. When he was 19, he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a welltodo
farmer. They had three children – one boy and two girls. A few years later after his
marriage, about the year 1587, Shakespeare left his native town for London. There he
became an actor and then the main playwright of the Lord Chamberlain’s company of
actors. He wrote plays for the company and acted in them. His career as a dramatist
lasted for nearly twentyone years. In 1597 Shakespeare bought a house in Stratford
and in 1612 he returned
to Stratford to spend the last years of his life in his native town. Shakespeare died on
April 23rd, 1616. He was buried at the Holy Trinity Church in StratfordonAvon. A
monument was erected to the memory of the great playwright in Westminster Abbey.
Student – 6:
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and two narrative poems. Among
Shakespeare’s plays are histories (chronicle plays) such as “Henry VII”, “Richard
III”; tragedies such as “Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth”, “Romeo and
Juliet”; comedies such as “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Much Ado About Nothing”,
“Twelfth Night” and romantic dramas “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Tempest”.
Shakespeare’s sonnets occupy a unique place in his literary legacy. There are three
main characters in his sonnets: the Young Man, the Dark Lady and the Rival Poet.
The main theme of most of Shakespeare’s sonnets is love and friendship.
С2:
Now let’s listen to one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, first in English and then translated
into Russian by Samuel Marshak.
Student – 7 (recites Sonnet 18th in English): 3sKSFD SONNET 18TH.
Shall I compare you to a Summer’s day?
You are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the daling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease has all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But your eternal Summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair you ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag you wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time you grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
С1:Now with the help of our Time Machine we’ll fly over into Scotland, to the Highlands,
where the greatest Scottish poet, Robert Burns, was born.
Student – 8:
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) is the national pride of Scotland. He was born in the north of
Scotland in a small village Alloway in 1759. His father, William Burns, was a gardener and
a farmer. Though Burns’ father was poor, he wanted to give his children the best education
he could. So he began to teach them to read and write when they were very young. Robert
and his brother Gilbert went to school and helped their father on the farm. Those were hard
times, but in spite of that Robert began to write when he was 15 years old. Burns wrote
many poems in English, but the best of his works were written in Scottish, the language of
his native Scotland. In his poems he described with love and understanding the simple life
he knew, and his poems touch the heart of every reader.
Student – 9:
The source of Burns’ poetry is the life of common toilers and Scottish folklore. Among his
wellknown poems are “Jolly Beggars”, “To a Mouse”, “The Two Dogs”, “John
Barleycorn”, “Auld Lang Syne”, “My Heart’s in the Highlands”, “The Tree of Liberty”. He
gave 200 songs to the Scots Musical Museum, among them such wellknown ones as “John
Anderson”, “My Joe” and some others.
The poet died in 1796 at the age of 37. Now Robert Burns is Scotland’s national poet, and
January 25th – the day of his birth – is always celebrated in his country and in other
countries of the world.
С2:
As for me, I like Burns’ poetry very much, especially “My Heart’s in the Highlands”. Let’s
listen to it, first in English and then in Russian translated by Samuel Marshak. Student – 10 (recites the poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands…”):
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, achasing the deer,
Achasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birthplace of valour, the country of worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and wildhanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loudpouring floods!
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, achasing the deer,
Achasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go!
С1: What do you usually do at Leisure? Listen to Magzom Rayimbek and follow the
advice of William Henry Davies in his poem “Leisure”.
What is the life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows;
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass;
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night;
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance;
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
“No time to turn at Beauty’s glance
And watch her feet, how they can dance!”
Poor, poor William Henry Davies! If he had had a chance to watch Julia’s dance, his poem
would have been more optimistic С1:
Well done! Thank you for such a great pleasure! And now let’s make the last turn of our
Time Machine and it carries us into the beginning of the 19th century. The greatest poet of
that time is George Gordon Byron.
Student – 11:
George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824), the great romantic poet, was born in London, in
1788 in an old aristocratic family. At 17, Byron entered Cambridge University and there his
literary career began. In 1807 he published his first collection of poems “Hours of
Idleness”. In 1808 Byron graduated from the University and in 1809 he left England for a
long journey. He visited Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece and Turkey. Byron described his
travels in a long poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Between 1813 and 1816 Byron
composed his “Oriental Tales”: “The Giaour”, “The Corsair”, “Lara” and others. In 1817
Byron went to Italy where he lived until 1823. In Italy Byron wrote many of his best poems:
“Don Juan”, “The Vision of Judgement” and “The Age of Bronze”. In 1823 Byron went to
Greece and joined the people of Greece in their struggle for independence against Turkey.
The struggle for independence had become the aim of Byron’s life.
Student – 12:
In the Greek town of Missolongi Byron fell ill with typhus and died in April 18th, 1824. He
was only 36 years old. His friends brought Byron’s body to England and he was buried in
Newstead, his native place. Only in 1969 the authorities finally allowed his remains to be
buried in the Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
I’d like to tell you about the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. It is a story about travel,
history and politics. Childe Harold is a young aristocrat, who is not happy in his country. He
goes travelling and hopes to find happiness among people far from civilization.
When the poem first appeared in print, many people believed that Byron’s own character
was presented in the person of Childe Harold but the author denied it. He justly considered
himself to be an active fighter for freedom, while Harold was merely a passive onlooker.
С2:
Childe Harold leaves his country for Portugal and Spain; when his ship is far from the
shores of England, he says Good Night to his Motherland.
Student – 13 ( recites the fragment of the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” )
Good Night.
(Canto the First).
Adieu! Adieu! My native shore
Fades o’er the waters blue;
The nightwinds sigh, the breakers
roar,
And shrieks the wild seamew.
Yon sun that sets upon the sea
We follow in his flight.
Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land – Good Night!
A few short hours and he will rise
To give the morrow birth;
And I shall hail the main and skies,
But not my mother earth.
Deserted is my own good hall,
Its hearth is desolate;
Wild weeds are growing on the wall,
My dog howls at the gate.
С1:
So our Time Machine helped us to make a fascinating journey to the world of English
poetry. And finishing our party, we’ll sing a song “Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns.
All the students sing the song “Auld Lang Syne” in English and in Russian.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne?
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet.
For auld lang syne!
Забыть ли старую любовь
И не грустить о ней?
Забыть ли старую любовь
И дружбу прежних дней?
За дружбу старую – до дна,
За счастье прежних дней!
С тобой мы выпьем, старина,
За счастье прежних дней!
С2:
And now, dear students and teachers, our party is over, thank you for your coming to our
evening. We hope you’ve known much interesting information about great English poets,
their life and their literary activities. Now you have enriched your inner world and positive
emotions will make life better. We are so sorry, but we must say good bye!
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
Разработка внеклассного мероприятия по английскому языку “In the world of English poetry”
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