My favourite writer Mark Twain.<span>Mark Twain is a famous American writer and a journalist. His real name was Samuel Clemens. He was born in 1835 in Florida. Mark Twain started his literary career rather late. He worked as a journalist in newspapers in Nevada and California during the years of the Civil War. His father died when the boy was only 12 years old. Twain had to start working with his brother. In 1857 he became a sailor on the Mississippi. After the Civil War he worked as a reporter for the “Territorial Enterprise” in Virginia City. His witty style, characterizing all his following works, was formed during his work in that newspaper. Soon after his first stories had been published he received the fame of the first humourist of America. “The Gilded Age”, “My Watch”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” appeared during this period in Twain’s literary career. The characteristic features of American comical folklore found their place in Twain’s creative works. He ignores all the rules of the “true” art and laughs at the European civilization. As the Americans of his times he believes in democratic America, creating a new culture,ignoring all previous experience of mankind. His removal to New York and his marriage to a daughter of a coal tycoon changed a lot in his life. He tried to become a businessman, but ruined himself and had to deliver lectures. In the 1870s he wrote “Life on Mississippi”, and in 1885 — “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. “The Prince and the Pauper”, and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” were also published during this time. In his works of that period Mark Twain showed racial prejudices, clash of humanism with antihuman materialism of bourgeois world. His works of the period greatly influenced American literature. The last period of his creative work is the time of pamphlet, which became his most favorite genre.</span>
<span>The
big clock on the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London is often called
Big Ben. But Big Ben is really the bell of the clock. It is the biggest clock
bell in Britain. It weighs 13.5 tons.</span><span>The
clock tower is 318 feet high. You have to go up 374 steps to reach the top. So
the clock looks small from the pavement below the tower.</span><span>But
its face is 23 feet wide. It would only just fit into some classrooms.</span><span>The
minute-hand is 14 feet long. Its weight is equal to that of two bags of coal.
The hour-hand is 9 feet long.</span><span>The
clock bell is called Big Ben after Sir Benjamin Hall. He had the job to see
that the bell was put up.</span><span>Sir
Benjamin was a big man. One day he said in Parliament, "Shall we call the
bell St. Stephen's?" St. Stephen's is the name of the tower.</span><span><span>But
someone said for a joke, "Why not call it Big Ben?" Now the bell is
known all over the world by that name.</span></span>
Это апостров это как The,a,are.
<span><span>5. Put
the verb into the right
form.</span>
<span>1
I am a first-year student. </span>
<span>2 There is a
canteen on our floor.</span>
<span>3
He haven't got a friend in our group.
</span>
<span>4 Are you writing a report to your
director now? </span>
<span>5 This week we attended a training course.</span>
<span>6
I use e-mail a lot.</span>
<span>7
Do you pay a tuition fee every year?
</span>
<span>8
I usually go)to the institute by bus.</span>
<span>9
What degree do you have?</span>
<span>10<span>
Do you attend lectures and seminars?</span></span>
<span>11 I am writing in response to your letter now.</span>
12. We usually start the week with the team
meeting.
<span>13. The meeting will start at ten tomorrow so
please be here by nine-thirty.</span>
<span>14. I look forward to seeing you.
</span>
<span>15. I will (phone) the restaurant and book a
table for our lunch meeting. </span></span>
У него нет велосипеда-He has not bicycle;У меня нет велосипеда-I have not bicycle;У них нет велосипеда- they have not bicycle;у нас нет велосипеда-we have not bicycle; у неё нет велосипеда-she has not bicycle.Надеюсь сойдет