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6 Read and match the names of the famous writers to the paragraphs about them. Agatha Christie William Shakespeare Walter Scott Sir Arthur Conan DoyleShe was born in 1890. She wrote 66 detective novels. She died in 1976.He was fond of Scottish folk songs and ballads. He is considered to be the founder1 of a historical novel.He was English. He was born in 1564. He was a dramatist, a poet and an actor. He died in 1616.He was born in 1859. He was a writer of detective stories. The main character of his stories is Sherlock Holmes.Lewis Carroll is a pen name of Charles Dodgson, the man who wrote such famous books for children as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Lewis Carroll was a wonderful children’s writer. He understood children and he could enter the world of children’s imagination.Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the name Mark Twain. Clemens was well-known as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [0tAm 9sc:j3] and Huckleberry Finn and other novels about growing up in a small town on the Mississippi River in the USA. 7 Get acquainted with some of the famous English and American authors.1 23 41a founder [9faUnd3] — засновник Walter Scott [0wc:lt3 9skAt] is the creator of a historical novel in English literature. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He loved his native land deeply and was greatly interested in its past. In his youth he made a good collection of the old Scottish ballads1. Walter Scott fi rst became known as a poet. In 1814 his fi rst novel Waverley [9weiv3lI] appeared. During the next few years Scott published many novels among which are Rob Roy, Ivanhoe [9aiv3nh3U], and he became the most famous novelist of his days.John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a professor of Literature and English at Oxford and a storyteller, became famous with his trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955). It is especially loved by young people. Tolkien’s epic world is populated by elves, magicians, dwarves and monsters. Since the publication of The Lord of the Rings, a whole industry of fantasy literature, computer games, and other products has been created by worldwide Tolkien’s fans to continue his work.1a ballad [9b2l3d] — баладаREMEMBER!HISTORIC or HISTORICAL?a historic battle a historic placea historic building a historic meetinga historic changehistorical novel historical drama historical museum(‘historic’ means ‘important in history’)(‘historical’ means ‘based on history’; ‘happening in the past’; ‘dealing with real or imaginary people and events in the past’; ‘helpful in studying the past’)​

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Agatha Christie - She was born in 1890. She wrote 66 detective novels. She died in 1976. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - He was born in 1859. He was a writer of detective stories. The main character of his stories is Sherlock Holmes. William Shakespeare - He was English. He was born in 1564. He was a dramatist, a poet, and an actor. He died in 1616. Walter Scott - He was fond of Scottish folk songs and ballads. He is considered to be the founder of a historical novel.