13.10 გაიმართა კლუბის შეხვედრა. განვიხილეთცნობილი ინგლისელი მწერლის ჩარლზ დიკენსის ბიოგრაფია და შემოქმედება. Charles Dickens is one of the most famous writers of the 19th Century, and his books are still loved by people all over the world. Some of his most famous works include A Christmas Carol , Great Expectations , and Oliver Twist . Many of Dickens’s books were funny and entertaining, but they were also very important works that talked about problems that affected a lot of people at the time. A lot of his work was inspired by his own life growing up in England. Charles Dickens’s Childhood Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in a city called Portsmouth, in England. After growing up in Portsmouth his family moved to London in 1822, when Dickens was ten years old. His family often struggled financially, and his father ended up in a lot of trouble for not paying back the money he’d borrowed. Because of this, his father ended up in a place called a ‘debtors priso...
https://youtu.be/1edPxKqiptw A poem about exceptions in English Dutch writer and traveler Gerard Nolst Trenité wrote a poem about exceptions in English. Imagine, he scored more than 800 of them! Guess what the poem is called? "Chaos"!!! Well, wouldn't you like to "call" English pronunciation or spelling like that at least once in your life? This is impossible to endure! Few of us have reached the end, and those who have reached it have silently left to drink coffee. And now imagine this: he not only picked up, but also rhymed all the inconsistencies and annoying misunderstandings in spelling and pronunciation in English. It turned out 247 lines of indignation. And this despite the fact that, we repeat, he is not a native English speaker! If you "endure" to the end of this poem, then you can consider yourself just a pro. Although, probably, the author himself would not have endured it. Let's listen to the poem first, and then read it The Chaos (192...
The Selfish Giant Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. 'How happy we are here!' they cried to each other. One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden. 'What are you doing here?' he cried in a very gruff v...
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