Books are our friends

Dear boys and girls, teachers and pupils! We are glad to see you at the conference on the

English and American literature.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of world. Why are so many people fond of reading?

The world of books is full of wonders. Together with the characters of books you can find

yourself in different and countries, have a lot of adventures. The book is a faithful friend. They

form our values and characters. We try to look like the characters of your favourite books: to be

brave, honest, not to be silly and greedy, to be real friends. We enjoyed the beauty and wisdom of

fairy-tales and fables when we were babies and Granny read them. They taught us to be kind,

clever, hardworking, to understand other people and help them. They teach us to understand the

beauty of nature, take care of it, to love our homeland. Books have been with us since childhood.

Who hasn’t read «Alice in the wonderland», «Mowgli»? Who hasn’t travelled with Marry

Poppins to her imaginary world? Who hasn’t imagined himself to be Robinson Crusoe on the

deserted island? I have read a lot of interesting books, but my favourite book is «The adventures

of Tom Sawyer» by Mark Twain. This well-known book is popular with the children all over the

world. The main character of the book is Tom Sawyer, who lived in a small town on the

Mississippi River. He was a boy with a wild imagination. He and his friends often dreamed of

different adventures. Tom was naughty, kind and brave. Besides he was noble. I like this boy

because he teaches us to be true friends. If you are not fond of reading, take a book to your liking

or borrow it from the library and read it. Books are worth reading. Readly, they are our good

friends.

“Books and friends should be few but good”, says an English proverb. “Except a living man

there is nothing more wonderful than a book! They teach us and open their hearts to us as

brothers”, wrote Charles Kingsley, an English writer of the 19th century. The book is certainly

one of the greatest inventions of man. It is a friend and a teacher. We learn many things by

reading books. Books teach people to live. After reading some books it is easy to understand

what should be done and what must not be done. One can learn a lot by reading books.

There are a lot of libraries in our country, where we can choose any book we need. Everyone

has the right to use public libraries. The librarian is always ready to help you to find a book on

any subject, even if you do not know the title of the book you want. Those who know how to use

the library catalogue can find the books without consulting the librarian.

Talks, exhibitions and other events take place in libraries. Book lists are prepared beforehand

so that new interests can be developed afterwards among the visitors. Except reading special and

scientific literature it is a great pleasure to read belles-lettres.

Different people like to read different kinds of it. It depends on one's taste and character.

Some people prefer detectives or science fiction. Others like historical books. Girls and women

prefer love stories. Children like comics very much.

So many people so many tastes

Children, do you like to read books? Of course you do.

I would like to introduce you the first group. Here are the pupils, who explore the biographies of

English and American writers. They will tell you about the amazing facts in the life of the

famous people. Well, Lena, what books do you like to read.

I like to read novels by Jack London.

My favorite author is Jonathan Swift.

Charlotte Bronte Jerome K. Jerome. And what about you, Lena?

Rudyard Kipling

Next group is fond of fairy-tales. They will show you two scratches. The first one is called

“The sheep and the wolf”.

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What are you doing, …

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I am looking for a book, for my brother.

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Here you can find something interesting.

I hold my book with both my hands

And read about some foreign lands

And so I get to know all kind of places

Where people live with different faces

Here some jokes

For you to read

I think, dear boys and girls

You’ll enjoy them all.

Our next play is “The hunter and the birds”.

Here are the fans of adventure stories.

Peter, what is your favourite book?

Daniel Defoe

Mark Twain

Play after Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer

Dear guests, pupils please listen to some riddles:

1)

It is not a bush but has leaves (book)

2)

A thing in a home there books are kept (book-case)

3)

It has not tongue, but tells a tale (book)

4)

The field is white, black is the seed and the sour who soured it was clever indeed (a page

of a book)

5)

A place we can get books to read from, but cannot keep them (a librarry)

Mary Dodge

Lewiss Carrol

Alice in Wonderland is performed by the pupils of the 8 form.

Alice in Wonderland

Now let’s play the game.

This team will give the title of any E or A book he or she likes to read. The member of

another team will name the main characters in these novels and stories (to the lovers of

poetry).

Do you like to read poems?

William Shakespeare

Robert Burns

Here are the fans of the Chuvash Literature.

They will introduce you the extract from a very famous poem written by Konstantin Ivanov.

I would like to tell some words about our national poets. The Chuvash poetry is proud

of the names of Peder Huzangаy, Yakov Uksay and Konstantin Ivanov.

«Сыва пул эппин Нарспи

Ан ман эппин мескене!»

Лаши сикре ытканче,

Вессе кайре килнелле

Нарспи ана хурсланса

Пахча юлче хысанчен,

Хускалмаре вырантан

Савни кусран канчен:

«Сыва пулах, сыва пул!»

Епле сана манап-ши?

Санпа перле пулмасан

Епле ютра пулап-ши?»

«Ты прощай, Нарспи и помни

О несчастном обо мне

Конь отпрянул и стрелою

Полетел по крутизне

А Нарспи смотрела стоя,

Долго вслед ему с тоской

И не сдвинулась покуда

Друг не скрылся за горой:

«Ах, прощай, прощай!тебя ли

Позабуду, милый мой

Как с постылым жить я буду,

Разлученная с тобой.

“Farewell, Narspi, remember,

I am such a miserable man

And the horse just like an arrow

And the horse just like an arrow

Bushed the sight and forward row.

And Narspi stood so (in sorrow)

Stayed silent pale as death

Not a whisper him to follow

Only signs instead of breath

“Farewell, (Narspi)my dear fellow”

I’ll live, in no way

Life becomes just a hell now

Time has come “amen” to say”.

(Now a piece of music, performed by 7

th

form folk orchestra group. It’s our present for you)

The last group – are the lovers of legends.

And now we are going to show you the play “Robin Hood”

Books

Books are full of many thing

That I would like to know

Books are full of greatest men

That lived long long ago

Books are full of countries

That I would like to see

Books are full of people

That I would like to be

Books are full mountains

That can be high or low

Books are full of flowers

That I would like to grow

At that table the lovers of poetry are sitting.

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Who is your favourite poet?

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And what about you?

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We prepared some English poems for you.

The author of these drawings is….

A girl from a senior form retells R. Burn’s biography and poems.

Inna, you want to add smth, don’t you?

Thank you, my dear lovers of poetry

I am a great lover of poetry too

Do you like to read books?

Yes, I do. I’am going to tell you a story.

Who is your favourite author?

What English writers do you know?

What books do you like to read?

I like to read fantastic and detective stories.

My favourite writer is…

What kind of books do you like to read?

I like to read adventure books by…

Now we want to see how well you know the English and American writers.

Which

is

your

favourite

genre-

detective

stories,

adventure

stories,

travelogues,

biographies, historical fiction, science fiction, tables, fairy-tales of legends?

Since books are friends

They need much care

When you are reading them

Be good to them and fare.

Remember children then:

Books are meant to read

Not cut or color them –

No, really, never,indeed!

Theank you very much for your attention

I wish you happiness from the bottom of my heart!