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I invite you to join us on our exiting literary tour around Britain.  Great Britain is the birthplace  of such writers as William Shakespeare , Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and many  others.

    Now, welcome to London, the capital of the UK. Daniel Defoe was born in London, his grave is in London and it can still be visited.

   Then we travel to explore Oxford. Oxford University’s list of former students reads like a writers’ who’s who: Clive Staples Lewis, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and many others. Oxford was also the setting  for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Tolkien had Britain in mind when writing The Lord of the Rings. The setting in the Oxford area have inspired the settings in his books.

    Then we travel to the historic town of Stratford-upon-Avon, known as William Shakespeare’s birthplace. A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare.

  In South West Scotland you can follow the story of Robert Burns, the great Scottish poet. He was born in Alloway in 1759. Scots the world over, celebrate his birthday every year on the 25th January.

  Then the Edinburgh-the home  and classroom of many writers. You can visit the birthplace of Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle.

 If you have the time and the Interest then why not add a day to your tour and visit Sir Walter Scott’s home- Abbotsford? Walter Scott had an impressive collection of books   in his library.  It contains 9000 books.

1. What is the title of the text?

2. Who was born in London?

3. What do you say about W.Shakespeare?

4.How many books are there in W.Scott 's library?

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W.Shakespeare lived in…. (образец)

 3   He was a famous Scottish novelist and poet. He (1)  -------------------  (to be born) in Edinburgh. During his  life  he(2) --------------------(to travel) a lot.           When he (3)--------------  (to travel) in America, he (4)----------------(to marry) Mrs Fanny Osborne, whom he met in France. Her young son , Lloyd, (5)-------------------       (to inspire) him to write his famous adventure  novel  Treasure Island. The novel was a great success when it (6)-------------------------(to publish).

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He was …….

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His novel…

He was the greatest playwright of all time. He (1) ---------------------(to be born) in Stratford-upon Avon. Different kinds of plays(2)--------------------(to write) by him. They tell us  historic stories, the tragic stories of the ancient world, the tales of imaginary characters. Among the most famous of his plays (3)----------(to be) Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet  and King Lear. His plays (4)-------------------(to set)  in the 16th century. They (5)--------------(to teach) people  to be better, wiser and happier. He (6)------------------(to honour) by his contemporaries a remarkable playwright and a great poet.

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He was…….

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His plays…