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Unit 9 lesson 4 "English in films”
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*(after ex. 3d) a) Fill in the gaps.
Superman comics first (1)
April 18, 1938. It was created
by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Siegel's father died and Siegel created a man who
became the world's greatest hero.
Later Superman moved to radio and television programmes, films, newspaper
(2)__
strips and video games,
Superman was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton and travelled to Earth in a rocket
moments before his planet (3)
He grew up as Clark Kent
in the family of a Kansas farmer and his wife. Very early he started to display
superhuman (4)
superhuman strength, speed, hearing,
intelligence, vision (5)
(X-ray, infra-red, telescopic,
microscopic, etc); he had an ability to fly, etc.
Superman usually wears a blue costume with a red-and-yellow letter 'S' and a red
cape. This letter 'S' is a (6)
of this character. The (7)
of his life is Lois Lane and he usually fights against Lex
Luthor and other bad guys. He was modelled on religious and mythological
characters like Samson and Hercules,
Superman's powers became more numerous with time. Unfortunately, green
Kryptonite - a radioactive material from Krypton is (8).
for
him.
(9).
Superman many other superheroes have appeared.
(можно добавить: Sir Arthur) Conan Doyle is a British writer, former physician and an author of numerous adventure books who was born in Britain. Conan Doyle wrote one of the most famous books in the world, (<= нужна запятая) "Sherlock Holmes", (<= нужна запятая) and came up with such interesting characters as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Agatha Christie is a writer who wrote (убрать артикль a) very famous detective stories, (<=нужна запятая) such as Jonah and The Secret Adversary.
I love to read adventure stories because I like them. You learn a lot of interesting and exciting things from adventure books (<= конструкция предложения была неправильной). When you read a book like that, you can travel with the book's heroes and live through the same events that happen to them. (<= конструкция была неправильной, надеюсь, ничего, что я чутка переписал))
I know a lot of adventure and detective books: (можно добавить: for example,) «Count of Monte Cristo», «Сaptain Nemo», «Three Musketeers», «Mousetrap». My favourite book is "Sherlock Holmes". The creator of this book is Arthur Conan Doyle (неправильно был указан автор), who is a very popular writer.