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2. Answer the following questions:

1. Who was the author of the oldest English poem?

2. What is the oldest heroic epic written in English?

3. What is the name of the first English printer?

4. When and where was W. Shakespeare born?

5. What literary movement concerned for nature, mystery, folk music and poetry?

6. What novel can be the title of the human society?

7. What is the most popular English book of present days?

3. Match the authors with their works:

Thomas Melory	Richard III
Thomas More	Frankenstein
William Shakespeare	The Return of the King
John Galsworthy	The Pickwick Papers
Mary Shelly	Utopia
Charles Dickens	The Forsyte Saga
J. R. R. Tolkien	Le Morte d’Arthur

4. What books are these words taken from?

1) “To be or not to be, – that is the question: –”

2) “In a little time, I began to speak to him, and teach him to speak to me; and, first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life…”

3) “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.

4) “I heard … the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said: «Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!»”

TEXT II

1. Pay attention to the following proper names:

Hans Holbein the Younger, King Henry VIII, Italian, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Elizabeth Delmé, William Blake, John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral, J.M.W. Turner, Venice,

2. Read after the speaker:

Painting, architecture, court, portrait, wealth, foreign, charm, satirical, generation, extraordinary, particular, drawing, sculpture, exhibitions, art prizes, reward, originality, castle, cathedral, arch, triumph.