Prepare your own extract from fiction in English for artistic reading.

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R. L. Stevenson

The Wind

Unit 9

Часть 4. Рифмовка, пословица / поговорка

Mind the intonation pattern and learn the saying and the chant by heart:

1) A good husband makes a good wife.

Доброю женою и муж честен

2) Panic On Being Late

What time is it?

What time is it?

Hurry up, hurry up,

Hurry up, hurry up!

What time is it?

What time is it?

Please, hurry up,

We're going to be late!

Oh!

I don't have time

To talk to you now.

I'm late, I'm late,

I'm terribly late.

Hurry up, hurry up!

What time is it?

Hurry up, hurry up!

What time is it?

Hurry up!

What time is it?

Hurry up!

Часть 5. Стихотворение

Listen to the audio track / the teacher's declamation and learn the poem by heart:

I saw you toss the kites on high

And blow the birds about the sky;

And all around I heard you pass

Like ladies skirts across the grass –

O wind, a-blowing all day long,

O wind, that things so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did,

But always you yourself you hid.

I felt you push, I heard you call,

I couldn't see yourself at all –

O wind, a-blowing all day long,

O wind, that things so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,

O blower, are you young or old?

Are you a beast of field and tree,

Or just a stronger child than me?

O wind, a-blowing all day long,

O wind, that things so loud a song!

Часть 6. Отрывок на чтение

Часть 7. Драматизация

Listen to the audio track, mind the intonation pattern and prepare your own dramatization of the extract:

Lesson 9

Nora: Move cut of my way, Peter. I want to make a cake.

Peter: How do you make a cake, Mum?

Nora: Fancy you being interested! Well, listen and I'll tell you. First you take some flour and add the eggs – oh, no, that's wrong, you mix the fat and sugar first – but you'd better watch me doing it. Now look. First I mix the fat and the sugar – there, do you see?

Peter: Yes.

Nora: Then I add the eggs, one by one, with a little flour, and beat them into the mixture.

Peter: Why do you beat them?

Nora: Well, eggs help to make the cake rise nicely if you beat them. And then I add the rest of the dry things.

Peter: What are the dry things?

Nora: Oh, the rest of the flour; the fruit, if you're making a fruit cake, or the chocolate powder, if it's a chocolate cake – it depends what sort of cake you are making.

Peter: Make a chocolate cake.

Nora: Yes, that's what I'm doing. Now I stir in a little baking powder.

Peter: Does that make the cake rise too?

Nora: Yes, but not until you heat it.

Peter: Is that chocolate powder you're putting in now, Mum?

Nora: Of course, it is.

Peter: I say, Mum.

Nora: What is it, Peter?

Peter: What's the salt for, Mum?

Nora: (abstractedly) What salt? I don't put salt in a cake.

Peter: You did, you know. Perhaps you thought it was sugar.

Nora: What?! Oh, good gracious! I've put salt in instead of sugar! The cake is spoilt. What a shame – those lovely eggs! I'm always doing things like that. Now I shall have to begin again and make buns instead – they don't need eggs.