References
Main literature
1.Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Upper-Intermediate Students Book. Oxford, 2010.
2.Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Upper-Intermediate Workbook. Oxford, 2010.
Additional literature
3. Michael Harris, David Mower and Anna Sikorzynska. New Opportunities Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book. 2006.
4. Amanda Maris, Outcomes Intermediate workbook 2010.
Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Hand out
English as a foreign language Department of General Humanitarian
Training
Intermediate level Academic year 2012-13
2 credits The 3rd term
Practical lesson №30
Lexical theme “The call of the ancestors”
Grammar “General revising’.
Assistant professor Karybayeva Gulmira Akankazhinovnа
Warming up
Answer these questions:
- Do you like yourselves?
-Describe yourself in 3 adjectives.
Do you like everything in yourself? Do you like every trait of your character and your appearance?
-If not? What would you like to change in yourselves? What would you like to improve?
-And in your opinion, can we change our world in future?
How do you see our planet in some years? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about our future?
- In your opinion, can we improve our life? Can people change our life on the planet?
-And do you know people who did much for our life, for our planet.
-Who improved our life? - (Rulers, presidents, prime ministers)
-Who found cures for serious diseases? - (Doctors, scientists)
-Who made progress in different fields (medicine, computer technologies, and space discoveries)? - (Scientists)
-Who made our life more interesting and beautiful? - (Poets, Singers, Writers, and Dancers)
-Name some of them.
Video presentation “Speaking about Famous people (about our ancestors)”(on slides are shown famous Kazakhs).
Reading
One of the famous people is the greatest poet - Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev. Remember what you know about him.
Read the text.
Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev
Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev (1845-1904) is the greatest Kazakh poet- enlightener, thinker, philosopher, bard, composer, the founder of classic Kazakh written literature. Abai was a son of sultan Kunanbai (a governor) of Eastern Kazakhstan (now it is Semipalatnisk district) and Ulzhan . They named him Ibrahim, but because of his brightness, he soon was given the nickname "Abay" (meaning "careful"), a name that stuck for the rest of his life. His father's economic status enabled the boy to attend a Russian school in his youth. Abai finished medresse (muslim religious school). He started writing poetry at school. From the very childhood Abai got deep humanitarian education. Being influenced by his mother he was fond of books and poetry. It was his mother whose love had lighted his way.
Abay's main contribution to Kazakh culture and folklore lies in his poetry, which expresses great nationalism and grew out of Kazakh folk culture. Before him, most Kazakh poetry was oral, echoing the nomadic habits of the people of the Kazakh steppes. During Abay's lifetime, however, a number of important socio-political and socio-economic changes occurred. Russian influence continued to grow in Kazakhstan, resulting in greater educational possibilities as well as exposure to a number of different philosophies, whether Russian, Western or Asian. Abay stepped himself in the cultural and philosophical history of these newly-opened geographies. In this sense, Abay's creative poetry affected the philosophical thinking of educated Kazakhs.
Abai translated works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gothe, Tolstoi, Saltykov-Schedrin and other poets and writers into Kazakh. His works urge people to labor and struggle for reorganization of life. A lot of his poems are dedicated to new attitude to the family, the parents' duty, education young generation. HE described nature, life and traditions of common people poetically. Abai’s poetry has prose and music is full of deep lyricism, soft humour, exposure of disgrace, great love to his nation. The most famous Abai’s work is "Words of Edification". His poems "Masgut", "Eskendyr" (Alexander the Great), "Black eyes" etc. became the classic not only for Kazakh but also for the world literature.
Contemporary Kazakhs images of Abay generally depict him in full traditional dress holding a dombra (the Kazakh national instrument). Today, Kazakhs revere Abay as one of the first folk heroes to enter into the national consciousness of his people. Almaty State University is named after Abay, so is one of the main avenues in the city of Almaty. There are also public schools with his name. The city of Abay is named after him. Statues of him have been erected in many cities of Kazakhstan, as well as in Moscow. A film on the life of Abay was made by Kazakhfilm in 1995, titled Abai. He is also the subject of two novels by Mukhtar Auezov, other Kazakhstani writers.
Correct the mistakes:
Abai was the greatest Kazakh singer.
Abai was born in the Western Kazakhstan.
Abai translated the works of English writers.
Abai’s most famous work is “Zhety zhargy”.
He describes in his works only rich people’s life.
Make up questions to the text.
Match the words with the definitions
a person who make information about something thinker
someone who studied and writes about the meaning of things such
as life knowledge enlightener
someone who thinks about important subjects and develops new
ideas translator
someone who writes music founder
someone who starts an organization or institution composer
someone whose job is to translate spoken or written words into a
different languages philosopher
Read Abai’s “Words of Edification”.