Te 8 ruscha indd

Sir Jam es M a tth e w  
B arrie
QUICK FACTS 
BORN
May 9, 1860 
Kirriemuir, Scotland 
DIED
June 19, 1937 (aged 77) 
London, England 
FAMOUS WORKS 
Peter Pan 
The Little M inister 
What Every Woman Knows
AWARDS AND HONORS 
The Order of M erit in 1922
Alan A lexan der M ilne
QUICK FACTS
BORN
January 18, 1882 
London, England 
DIED
January 31, 1956 (aged 74) 
Sussex, England
FAMOUS WORKS 
W innie-the-Pooh 
The House at Pooh Corner 
IM PO RTANT FAMILY M EM B ERS 
Son: Christopher Robin Milne 
RELATED FACTS AND DATA 
Christopher Robin film by Forster- 
Facts
AWARDS AND HONORS
1958, Winnie the Pooh won the 
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
R em em ber:
Diana s a id s h e lik e s reading.
John Ronald Reuel 
Tolkien
QUICK FACTS
BORN
January 3, 1892 
Bloem fontein, South Africa 
DIED
September 2, 1973 (aged 81) 
Bournem outh, England 
FAMOUS WORKS 
The Fellowship of the Ring 
The Hobbit 
The Lord of the Rings 
The Return of the King 
The Two Towers 
The Legend of Sigurd 
and Gudrun 
The Silmarillion
SUBJECTS OF STUDY 
Old English language
Joanne Kathleen 
Rowling
QUICK FACTS
BORN
July 31, 1965 
Yate, England 
FAMOUS WORKS
Harry Potter and the 
Phil o sopher’s Stone 
The Casual Vacancy 
Harry Potter and the 
Deathly Hallows 
Career of Evil 
Harry Potter and the 
Half-Blood Prince 
Lethal White 
Harry Potter and the 
Prisoner of Azkaban 
Fantastic Beasts & 
Where to Find Them 
Harry Potter and the 
Cursed Child 
AWARDS AND HONORS 
Costa Book Awards 
(1999)
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U N IT 4 LITERATURE AND LIFE

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LESSON 2 First in literature
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a
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b
W o rk in p a irs . A n s w e r th e q u e s tio n s . M a tc h th e
a n s w e rs and p ic tu re s .
1) Who was the firs t w riter who started using old 
Uzbek language instead of Persian in poetry and 
prose in the 15th century in Central Asia?
2) Who developed old English and started using it 
in poetry instead of French and Latin in the 14th 
century in England?
3) What was the first novel w ritten in the Uzbek lan­
guage? Who was it written by?
4) Who created more than a thousand English words and 
made them more popular since the 16th century?
W o rk in p a irs . Find th e w o rd s in th e te x t. G uess
th e m e a n in g . C h e c k in th e W o r d lis t if n e c e s s a ry .
prose, create, astronom er, realism, rhyming, masterpiece
1 
Alisher Navoi was born in 1441. His real 
name is Nizomiddin M ir Alisher. Alisher Navoi 
was a great poet, statesman and the founder 
of Uzbek literature. Alisher Navoi got a very 
good education fo r those days. He was the 
first who wrote in old Uzbek language under 
the penname of Navoi. He used Persian very 
little. His penname was Foni in his poems 
which were written in the Persian language. 
His last book, “ M ahbub-al-qulub” , which was 
written in p ro s e , is still very popular with 
the Uzbek people. His works have become 
fam ous in the world literature and a lot of 
them were translated into many languages.
2 Geoffrey Chaucer was born around 
1340 to 1344, in London. He was an Eng­
lish poet during the M iddle Ages. He is the 
Father of English poetry and the first to 
be placed at Poets’ Corner in W estm in­
ster Abbey. Chaucer was also fam ous as 
an author, philosopher and a s tro n o m e r. 
He was the first who introduced royal 
rh y m in g in the poem about the Trojan 
War. He wrote and developed Old English 
at the tim e when French and Latin were 
used in literature in England. Today he 
is best known fo r his story m a s te rp ie c e
“The Canterbury Tales” .
Abdulla Kodiri, an Uzbek playwright, poet, w riter and 
literary translator, was born in 1894. Kodiri was one of 
the m ost im portant Uzbek w riters of the 20th century 
who introduced re a lis m into Uzbek literature through his 
historical novels. He spoke Uzbek, Arabic, Persian and 
Russian. K odiri’s most fam ous works are the historical 
novels “O ‘tkan kunlar” (Days Gone By) (1922) and “ Meh- 
robdan chayon” (Scorpion in the Pulpit) (1929). “O ‘tkan 
kun I a r” is the first full-length novel by an Uzbek author.
1 c W o rk in p a irs . R ead and fin d w h o ... .
1) was the founder of Uzbek national literature
2
) was a poet and a statesman
3) wrote histories, tragedies and com edies
4) used various pennames
5) spoke Arabic, Persian and Russian
6
) created over 1,700 new words and phrases
7) introduced a new kind of rhyming in poems
C o m p le te th e s e n te n c e s in th e c h a rt. 
Use th e P re se n t o r P ast S im p le passive 
fo rm s o f th e v e rb s in b ra c k e ts .
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William 
Shakespeare 
(1564-1616) was an English 
author who wrote 37 plays, 
many poems and sonnets 
in his lifetim e. His plays are 
still perform ed today. His 
plays are of different genres. 
There are histories, tra g e ­
dies and com edies. These 
plays are among the best 
masterpieces known in Eng­
lish literature, and are studi­
ed in schools around the 
world. Shakespeare c re a te d
over 1,700 English words 
and phrases that entered the 
English language and made 
some words more popular.
C o m p le te th e s e n te n c e s .