I Club
1.1 Чтение, Письмо, Перевод, Интернет-Поиск 410каб `22мин
1. Read aloud. Mind your intonation.
2. Complete the sentences by quoting the text.
3. The teacher dictates the text. Put it down. Jack London, the famous American writer, was born in San Francisco. The family was poor and Jack began to work when he was nine years old. He got up at three in the morning and carried newspaper to people's house. After that the boy went to school. When school was over, he carried the evening newspapers round the town. On Saturdays and Sundays he worked at a hotel. The boy liked to read and spent all his free time with books.
Jack London left school at thirteen. After that he worked for ten and more hours every day, but he soon lost his work. Many people in San Francisco had no work at that time, so they decided to march to Washington and ask for work and bread. Jack marched to Washington, too. He didn't get any work there, but was arrested with ohter workers.
At that time London met a man who spoke to him about socialism and about Karl Marx. When London came back to San Francisco, he began to read books on socialism. For a year London wasba student at a univercity. But he soon left it. He had no money and couldn't pay to the univercity. He found work at a factory and in the evening wrote poems and stories. But nobody wanted to publish his stories.
Gold was found in Alaska at tat time, so London went there. He lived in Alaska for a year, but he didn't find any gold. He met heroes for stories there – strong men. Back in San Francisco, Jack worked in different places and at night wrote his stories about the North. In 1898 some of them were published and people liked them very much.. In 1902 Jack London visited the capital of England and wrote a novel about the poor people of London.
Jack London liked strong-willed people. His herous struggle with severe nature and tricks of fortune. He liked winners and almost all his characters were the ones.
He wrote short-story collections about the North: «The Son of the Wolf», «The Children of the Frost», «Love of Life and Other Storifes».
Among his other famous works are "The Iron Heel", "The Call of the Wild", "The Sea Wolf", "White Fang".
One of the novels was Martin Eden, in which the writer describes his life.