Внеклассное мероприятие по дисциплине иностранный язык «Книги в нашей жизни. Мой любимый писатель.»

        Министерство образования Ставропольского края

государственное бюджетное профессиональное образовательное учреждение «Невинномысский энергетический техникум»

Внеклассное мероприятие по дисциплине иностранный язык  «Книги в нашей жизни. Мой любимый писатель.»

Преподаватель иностранного языка

Елена Владимировна Черная

                          г. Невинномысск 2021.

Цели мероприятия:

создание условий для развития творческой личности, стимулирование интереса к изучению иностранного языка, c помощью знакомства с литературой, кино, культурой и национальными особенностями восприятия  мира.

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                   Good morning my dear students!

                   I’m glad to see you!

Today we’ll have an unusual lesson.

We are  going to know about world famous writer and screenwriter James Clavell

James Clavell is an American and Australian writer and screenwriter. He became known to the general public as the author of the series of novels "Asian Saga" and their television adaptations. But the biography of this wonderful writer is no less interesting.

About the author

Clavell was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of an officer in the British Royal Navy. His parents returned to England when James was a child. Educated in Portsmouth at the private school of Gram School. James decided to continue the military dynasty and joined the Royal Artillery in 1940. He was undergoing training when the war with Japan began and he was sent to Malaya. In 1942, James was wounded and captured on the island. Java. Clavell was sent to the notorious Changi prison near Singapore. Of the fifteen prisoners here, only one survived. Clavell suffered greatly at the hands of his invaders. “Changi became my university,” he later recalled. “There were experts in all spheres of life among the prisoners. I studied and absorbed everything I could, from physics to counterfeiting. But I learned the art of survival best of all. " James Clavell's book "The King of the Rat" tells more about these events.

Returning to England with the rank of captain, James had an accident that put an end to his military career. He went to the University of Birmingham and worked wherever he could. During this time, he met his future wife April Stride, an aspiring actress. Through her, he became interested in directing films. In 1953, they emigrated to America and settled in Hollywood. Before Clavell tried himself as a screenwriter, he worked for several years in the box office as a simple worker. Clavell's daughter Michaela played the role of Penelope Smallbone in the James Bond film. But that was the end of her acting career. James Clavell died in September 1994 of a stroke in Switzerland, just a month before his 70th birthday.

Literary Activity

 The Asian Saga cycle includes six novels written by Clavell between 1962 and 1993. Of the six novels in this cycle, four were filmed, where the author himself was directly involved. All novels are set in Asia - hence the name of the cycle.

The first novel, The King of the Rats (1962), became a semi-fictional story from his personal life - a terrible stay in Changi prison. When James Clavell's book was published in 1962, it became a bestseller and was adapted for film 3 years later. The prototype of the protagonist was a real person, thanks to whom James survived in those terrible conditions.  Clavell never admitted which parts of the novel were true and which were fictional. The idea for Shogun (1975), the author said, came to him when he was helping his daughter with her homework. She read about an Englishman who landed on the coast of Japan during the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate and became a samurai. "How did it happen?"  Clavell asked. But there was nothing else in the textbook. James became interested, researched a lot of material on this topic and wrote a book. Since the four novels tell about the same family, it is easier to list James Clavell's books not by year of publication, but in chronological order:

1.     The novel "Tai-Peng" (1966) is based on real historical events that took place in southern China during the First Opium War, when British troops defended trade interests and the expansion of trade, primarily in opium. The book is about the collision of East and West, about the confrontation between two wealthy families Struans and Brock.

2.     Gaijin (1993) is the second book about the Struan House. The novel is set in Japan in 1862.

3.     Noble House (1981) takes the reader to Hong Kong in the 1960s. The Struan family faces new rivals and attacks, new challenges and opportunities. On top of this, the difficult situation in Hong Kong, where the interests of the USSR, the USA, Britain and China intersect.

4.     James Clavell's book "Whirlwind" (1986), and in Russian translation - "Shamal", tells about the Iranian revolution, which is a tangle of contradictions and groupings. Not without the intrigues of the intelligence services of the United States and Great Britain, the services of Israel and the Soviet Union, as well as agents of the Struan family.

Why are Clavell's books interesting? James's works are read in one breath. A person who has dealt with films for more than a dozen years knows how to captivate the reader. The plots are exciting, interesting - love intrigues and family dramas, investigations and secrets, natural disasters and machinations. The climax creeps up imperceptibly, when, it would seem, everything fell into place, the final touch unsettles the reader. To say that there is a lot of Japanese and Chinese history in the books is to say nothing. Clavell's books are a scrupulous and detailed immersion in the life of these countries, their traditions and customs. James Clavell's novels are the best books about these countries. Colossal description of historical events and people. All the characters are revealed in such detail that, having mastered the historical component of the plot, reading becomes like watching a movie

In short, welcome to the Asian Saga!