Презентация по английскому языку William Caxton

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  WILLIAM CAXTON
  
  

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  Caxton showing the first specimen of his printing to King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth at the Almonry, Westminster (painting by Daniel Maclise)
  

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  William Caxton is the first English printer. He was born in Kent in 1422. His father was a farmer. William did not want to become a farmer like his father. So his father sent him to London. He worked in an office which traded with different countries. William liked to read new books which were printed in Europe.
  

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  When William Caxton was thirty, after his master's death he started his own business in Belgium. In 1471 he left his business and began to translate French books into English.
  He became interested in printing and at last he learnt it. William wanted to have his own press one day and he did.
  

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  The printer's device of William Caxton, 1478
  

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  William Caxton printer's device, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
  

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  In 1476 he brought his printing-press to London. Printing was something new at that time and most people thought that it was the work of the devil. Some of the people wanted to break his press.
  

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  Caxton printed his first book in 1477. It was the first book printed in the English language. The book was Caxton's translation of the French 'Tales of Troy'.
  William Caxton printed about eighty books. He translated thirty-one books from French. Caxton died in 1491.
  
  

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  Facsimile of page 1 of Godefrey of Boloyne, printed by Caxton, London, 1481. ---- The Prologue, at the top of page, begins: Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the Conquest of the holy lande of Jherusalem. (the blank space on this page was for the insertion by hand of an illuminated initial T)
  

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  These sentences are not true to fact. Correct them.
  1. Caxton's father sent him to Paris.
  2. Caxton worked in a hospital.
  3. Caxton started his own business before his master's death.
  4. Caxton translated German books into Russian.
  5. Most people knew a lot about printing at that time.
  6. Caxton printed his first book in 1577.
  7. Caxton printed more than a hundred books.
  

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В презентации представлен материал на английском языке про биографию У. Кекстона, английского первопечатника.. В 1470-х годах он основал первую типографию в Лондоне неподалёку от Вестминстерского аббатства. Материал предназначен для работы на старшем этапе обучения английскому языку.Первой английской печатной книгой стали «Изречения философов», за которыми последовали труды Чосера, Боэция, Овидия, Вергилия, Боккаччо, множество рыцарских романов. (Википедия)