Урок-встреча в литературной гостиной, посвященный М. Твену

Урок-встреча в литературной гостиной,

посвященный М. Твену

СЦЕНАРИЙ

1.  Ведущий.

Спектакль. Mark Twain’s friend in Ryazan. Mark Twain’s jokes. Дети представляют Topless News (в духе первоапрельской шутки), которые они придумали или нашли заранее, и они входят в оформление.

Оформление: портрет,

высказывания “The rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated”

“The first of April in the day we remember what we are other 364 days of the year”

“Without fools there would be no wisdom”

“Every Titanic has its iceberg

“All is well that ends”

Учебно-речевые ситуации на основе юмористических текстов (прогнозирование последней реплики анекдота или шутки и инсценирование).

Разделить на две команды участников и предложить каждой по два анекдота. Каждая команда должна предложить свое окончание шутливой ситуации.

Анекдоты (например):

1)  Farmer: What are you doing in that tree, boy?

Boy: One of your apples fell down and …

(следуют предложения детей, затем зачитать верное предложение)

I’m trying to put it back.

2)  Freddy: Dad, I must tell you something now. You will be happy to hear it.

Dad: Well?

Freddy: You will not buy me new books for school next year…

(пауза, предложения)

I’ll stay another year in the 6th form.

3)  Nick: Ann, give me your pen, please.

Ann: And why don’t you want to write with your pen? What’s wrong with it?…

(пауза, предложения)

Nick: It makes so many mistakes.

4)  Jack: How did you break your arm?

Mike: Do you see those stairs there?

Jack: Yes.

(пауза)

Mike: Well, I didn’t.

Good day! We are glad to welcome you to our literary party. It is devoted to Mark Twain, a famous American writer.

Mark Twain (his real name is Samuel Clemens) was born in 1835 in the small town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River. His father was a lawyer.

Little Samuel was a bright lively child. He went fishing and swimming to the river and he was the leader in all the boys games. Samuel had a lot of friends at school. And when he became a writer he described them in his stories.

His father died when he was eleven years old. Samuel had to work. He and his brother published the newspaper.

At the age of 20 he found a job on a ship. Here on a ship he “found” his pen-name “Mark Twain”. It was a call of the Mississippi pilots when they measured the depth of the river. Then the young man worked with gold-miner in California. Many professions gave Mark Twain a knowledge of life and people and helped him to find his true profession – a writer.

Writing did not bring much money to Mark Twain so he had to give lectures on literature and read his stories to the public. He visited many countries and lived in England for a long time. In 1907 Oxford University gave Mark Twain an honorary doctorate of letters.

We advise you to read Mark Twain’s books, and now you’ll the scenes from the book “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”.

Mark Twain’s jokes.

Mark Twain was not only a famous writer but also a famous humorist. He made speeches in different towns. During these speeches he always told several funny stories. His stories were told and retold. His remark “The rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated” has become an American byword.

There are many humorous stories connected with his name. Here are two of them.

Once Mark Twain and two of his friends were sitting in a restaurant. One friend had just returned from a trip to the mountains. He said that the echo of a voice came back five times stronger.

“That is nothing”, - said the second friend. “In Colorado, in many places the echo spoken in the morning comes back in the afternoon”.

Mark Twain laughed. Then he said: “I was born in Hannibal and there is a small church there”. The echo in that church, is so unusual, that if one says “Good morning! How are you?, The echo comes back after a moment “Very well, thank you. And how are you?”

One man asked Mark Twain to autograph the book. “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” Mark Twain wrote his name. The man wanted to speak with Mark Twain. He didn’t know what to say and he said: “By the way, when did Benjamin Franklin die?” Twain opened the book, read the last pages and said, “He doesn’t say”.

Mark Twain’s friend in Ryazan.

I have found very interesting fact from Mark Twains biography.

In 1902 Mark Twain sent his photograph to Elizaveta Malashkina in the town of Ryazan. He wrote on the photograph: “Truly yours, Mark Twain:.

Who was Elizaveta Malashkina? Why has the envelope got a black border?

We discovered that Elizaveta Malashkina was one of the daughters of Malashkin, publisher of the Ryazansky Listok. The Malashkinns were a large family and were among the best educated and most liberal – minded people of Ryazan. At the beginning of this century Elizaveta was in Europe. Marck Twain was also travelling in Europe at the same time. So it quite possible that they met there. This explained the sending of the photograph.

The reason for the black border is still not clear.

Scene I.

(Tom goes to school. He meets Huckleberry Finn.)

Huck:	Hello, Tom!
Tom:	What’s that in your hands?
Huck:	A dead cat.
Tom:	Say, what is it good for?
Huck:	You can cure warts with it.
Tom:	And how do you do it?
Huck:	You take your cat and go to the graveyard about midnight, where somebody that was a wicked man has been buried. When it’s midnight, a devil will come, or maybe two or three. You must throw your cat after them and say: “Devil, follow corpse, cat, follow devil, warts, follow cat”, and you will have no more warts.
Tom:	Did you ever try it, Huck?
Huck:	No, but old Mother Hopkins told me.
Tom:	Well, then it is true, because people say she is a witch. When will you try the cat, Hucky.
Huck:	Tonight.
Tom:	Let me go with you, will you?
Huck:	Of course. If you are not afraid.
Tom:	Of course e and meow at my window.
Huck:	And you meow back if you can. Last time I meowed for such a long time that old Hays began to throw stones at me.
Tom:	All right. Oh! I’m late for school. Good bye!
Huck:	Good bye!
Scene II.
(Tom comes into the classroom. The lesson has already begin.)
Teacher:	Thomas Sawyer!
Tom:	Yes.
Teacher:	Come up here! Why are you late again? (Tom wants to tell a lie, but suddenly he saw a girl)
Tom:	I stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn.
Teacher:	You… you did what?
Tom:	Stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn.
Teacher:	Thomas Sawyer, you shall be punished for this. Go and sit with the girl! (That was just what Tom wanted)
	(Tom sat at the desk, near Becky and began to draw, hiding his work with his left hand. She tries to see the picture)
Becky:	Let me see it. I like this house. It’s nice. Draw a man.
Tom:	I’ll try.(Draws and gives the picture to the girl)
Becky:	It’s a handsome man. Now draw me. (Tom draws)
Tom:	Do you like it?
Becky:	It’s very, very nice. I wish I could draw.
Tom:	It’s easy. I can teach you.
Becky:	Oh, will you? When?
Tom:	At noon. Do you go home for dinner?
Becky:	I shall stay if you will.
Tom:	Good. What’s your name?.
Becky:	Becky Thatcher. What’s yours? Oh, I know. It’s Thomas Sawyer.
Tom:	Yes. Call me Tom, will you?
Becky:	Yes. (Tom writes something)
	(Tom writes something)
Becky:	Tom, let me see what you have written.
Tom:	Oh! It’s nothing.
Becky:	Please, let me.
Tom:	You’ll tell.
Becky:	No, I won’t.
Tom:	You won’t tell anybody at all?
Becky:	No, I won’t tell. Now let me.
Tom:	Oh, you don’t want to see.
Becky:	I want.
Tom:	(read) I love you.
Becky:	Oh, you bad thing. (Becky runs away. Tom runs after her.)
Scene III.
Tom:	Huck, do you know that robbers sometimes hide treasure?
Huck:	Where do they usually hide treasure?
Tom:	In strange places. Sometimes under the old tree, sometimes under the floor in the empty houses.
Huck:	And where shall we dig? Have you got a map?
Tom:	No, I haven’t. But there are many places where we can find a treasure.
Huck:	Where are we going to begin?
Tom:	Let’s dig under old tree on the hill. (They dig then lay under the tree.) I like this work.
Huck:	So do I.
Tom:	If we find a treasure here, what are you going to do with your money, Huck?
Huck:	I’ll have tasty food and I’ll go to the circus every day. And you, Tom?
Tom:	I’ll buy a drum, a sword and get married.
Huck:	What’s her name?
Tom:	I’ll tell you latter. Well, let’s dig. (They dig.)
Huck:	I think we are digging in the wrong place. (They find another places and dig again.)
Tom:	Look. There is a widow’s house. (They put tools in the corner of the house and enter it.)
Huck:	Let’s go upstairs.
Tom:	Sh!
Huck:	What is it?
Tom:	Do you hear footsteps?
Huck:	Yes, let’s run.
Tom:	Don’t move. They are coming.
Huck:	That’s Injun Joe, but I have never seen the other man.
Unknown man:	I don’t like this place. It’s dangerous.
Injun Joe:	What is more dangerous than coming here in the day-time?
Man:	I wanted to go away from this place yesterday, but the boys were playing on the hill and I could not leave the house. (They get some food and eat.)
Joe:	I’m sleepy, It’s your turn to watch. (In a few minutes both men were sleeping.)
Tom:	Now, come on!
Huck:	I am afraid. (Joe sits looks around.)
Joe:	You, watchman!
Man:	Have I been asleep? Well nothing has happened.
Joe:	It’s time to go.
Man:	What shall we do with our money? It is too heavy.
Joe:	We shall bury it. (Begins to dig with his knife.)
Man:	Good idea. (Goes to the fire-place, lifts a stone and takes a bag with money. He takes some money and gives money to Joe.)
Joe:	The box is full of gold. I say there are thousand of dollars here.
Man:	What shall we do with our money? Bury it again.
Joe:	Yes.. No, Have you seen the tools? Who brought it here and where are they gone? If we bury the money here, they will come and find it. Perhaps they are upstairs?
Man:	If they are up there, let them stay there. (The men go away with the box.)
Tom:	There was real treasure in the house.
Huck:	But it was Injun Joe who got it.