This document contains questions from a quiz about literary genres and information about famous authors and characters from classic novels. It asks the student to identify genres like adventure, science fiction, drama, mystery, and biography. It also provides pictures of detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple and the author Jules Verne and asks students questions about them. It then has exercises to practice past simple verb tenses and sentences about the lives and works of authors like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley.

1. Pakhomova Natalya, school №151, Chelyabinsk
Bookworms

2. 1) Do you like reading books in your free time?
2) What genres do you prefer?
adventures / comedy / fantasy / mystery /
novels / fairy tales / biographies
3) Are you a bookworm?
Answer the questions.

3. 1)An ………………… story is an exciting story about a hero who goes on an
unusual journey and does new and dangerous things.
2)A ………………….. story is about events that take place in the future or in
space and usually describes strange creatures and robots.
3)A………………….. is a serious and emotional play, written for the theatre,
television or radio.
4)A …………………. is a story about a crime or a strange event that is difficult
to explain.
5)A ………………………. is a funny story with a happy ending.
6)A …………………. is the story of a person’s life written by another person.
Do the quiz on literary genres.
adventure
science fiction
drama
mystery
humorous story
biography

4. Think of 2 questions about these characters. Listen
and check if you can answer your questions.
Who are the authors and the characters in the
pictures? What do they have in common?

5. 1. solves crimes with a partner?
2. always wants to be neat and tidy?
3. doesn’t look like a detective?
4. wrote adventure novels?
5. travels in a submarine?
Read again. Say who…
Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
Miss Marple
Jules Verne
Captain Nemo

6. well known famous
unusual typical
amazing extraordinary
clever faithful
ordinary intelligent
loyal strange
Translate the sentences with the words in bold.
Match the underlined words to their synonyms.

7. well known famous unusual typical amazing
extraordinary clever faithful ordinary intelligent
loyal strange brilliant mysterious
Use the adjectives to describe the characters.
Spiderman Harry Potter Cinderella

8. Past Simple Tense
V 2 / V ed
did + V
be – was / were send – sent
have – had write - wrote
catch – caught speak - spoke
Affirmative sentences
Conan Doyle studied medicine
at university.
глаголы, оканчивающиеся на –е + d
love – loved
глаголы, оканчивающиеся на -
согласную + y i + ed try – tried
Negative sentences
Jules Verne did not study
medicine at university.
глаголы с ударной гласной между двумя
согласными drop – dropped
глаголы, оканчивающиеся на –l ll + ed
travel - travelled
Questions
Did Conan Doyle study medicine
yesterday, in 1960
ago (a day ago, two months ago, a year ago)

9. Check exercise 6b
1. Did Arthur Conan Doyle write poems?
2. Was Agatha Christie a famous writer?
3. What did Arthur Conan Doyle study?
4. What did Jules Verne do when he was 12?
5. Which characters did Jules Verne created?
6. Where was Agatha Christie born?

10. Check exercise 7.
1. H. G. Welles’ War of the Worlds caused panic
when people first heard it on the radio , in 1938.
2. Daniel Defoe used the real adventures of a sailor A. Selkirk
to write Robinson Crusoe.
3. William Shakespeare often acted in his own plays.

11. 5. Herman Melville travelled to many places before he wrote
Moby Dick.
4. The English poet , Byron fought in the Greek war of
independence in 1821.
6. Mary Shelley created the monster in Frankenstein after she
spoke with Lord Byron.