Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Humor in English literature

national humor has definite peculiarities. English humor has its specific features. And it is considered as a natural feature on the whole.

whole world with great irony. English people are proud of their humor and they think it is the best in the world.

feature is that they tell funny things with calm and very serious intonation.

taught my dog how to speak English!" «That's impossible», — says the other man, «Dogs don't speak!"
«It's true! I'll show you». He turns to his dog, — «How's the situation in England?“ The dog answers: «Rough, rough».

Not all people can understand it.

us something funny. And of course there are huge number of humorist authors, such as Tom Sharp, Jerome K. Jerome, Alan Miln, Charles Dickens, Arnold Benneth and others…

Limerick. We would like to tell you about it and give you some examples.

five lines and the final part of the first and last rows are the same.

the character and place of origin (usually geographic name is used)

the second says what this character did, what happened to him or what its feature is;

Further presentation talks about the consequences of his actions or properties.

Limerick was and why its name comes from the name of the town Limerick in Ireland.

goes back to the custom to come up and sing comic songs at parties .
The chorus (припев) of these songs was the phrase «Are you coming to Limerick?" (Or according to another version, "going down to Limerick?").

own composition (1846), is considered to be Edward Lear. The book is called "Nonsense" ("Book of Nonsense"). E. Lear is one of the most famous English poets.

Here are some of his pictures.

wrote 212 limericks, most of which were funny and absurd. They're usually accompanied by the same absurd illustrations.

on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the Lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.


Одна хохотушка-девица Любила кататься на львице. Признаться вам честно – Девица исчезла, Зато улыбается львица.

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe. He awoke in the night in a terrible fright and found it was perfectly true!


Однажды увидел чудак Во сне, что он ест свой башмак Он вмиг пробудился И убедился, Что это действительно так.

to a masquerade,
The ball isn’t ever without risk
Dressed up as big sausages.
He was eaten by the dog at the fence.
 
Хотел господин из Белграда Участником стать маскарада, На бал не без риска Оделся сосиской. Был съеден он псом у ограды.

word play, strange phonetics, serious intonation?
What is Limerick?
Who was the first person to publish his collection of short funny poems?
Name some English and Russian humorist writers.

Dasha (5v)

The coordinator
Mikhailova Olga Vadimovna,
English teacher

Lyceum 22, Ivanovo