Learning objective 6.4.9.1 Recognise the difference between fact and opinion in short, simple texts on a wide range of general and curricular topics 6.5.8.1 Spell most high-frequency vocabulary accurately for a limited range of familiar general topics and some curricular topics Assessment criteria · Identify the content of short texts ·
Write high-frequency topic related words accurately
Level of thinking skills
Knowledge and comprehension
Application Higher order thinking skills
Reading
Task 1. Read about a famous writer, the author of The hobbit and The Lord of the rings. Then do the task below.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a famous British writer. He is best known for his fantasy books ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings”. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892, in South Africa. When he was four years old, the family moved to England in 1900 He was very good at languages. He studied not only Latin and Greek, but also Gothic and Finnish. After the war, Tolkien taught English language and literature at the University of Leeds.
Later he became a professor at Oxford University. There he started a writing group called The Inklings. One of the members of this group was C.S. Lewis (‘The Chronicles of Narnia’), who became one of Tolkien’s closest friends. They shared great enthusiasm for the myths, sagas, and languages of northern Europe.
In 1937, Professor Tolkien published “The Hobbit”, with his own drawings. He wrote it as bedtime stories for his own children. The book became immediately successful and the publisher asked Tolkien if he had more material. It took him seventeen years to publish “The Lord of the Rings,” in1954. The Lord of the Rings was written for older children, the same audience who had grown up since “The Hobbit” was published. As it was quite a big story it had to be published in three parts. It became a global bestseller at once.
Answer the following questions.
1. Where was J. R. R. Tolkien born?

2.What did Tolkien study at Oxford?

3. Where did Tolkien become a professor and started teaching?

4. What was the name of the writing group that Tolkien started?
5. 5,Why did he start to write a story about a hobbit? 6. 6.What time did it take for Tolkien to publish” The Lord of the Rings”?
7.Did you read any of his books? ( 7 points)

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