Номер 30, страница 86 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Уайт

Track twenty-three.

Good morning. Now, as you should remember, last week we were looking at the works of Ernest Hemingway. Did you all do your homework? Good. I'll collect it in at the end of the lesson. Now today, we're going to look at some of the greatest writers of detective stories. Later I'll tell you about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the Sherlock Holmes books. But first I want to look at an American writer, Raymond Chandler. Does anybody know him? No. Oh, never mind. He was born in nineteen eighty-eight and spent the first few years of his life in Chicago. But when he was a child, his family moved to England. He went to school at Dulwich College. That's an expensive private school in South London. But he also studied in France. He became a British citizen, but he moved back to America in nineteen twelve. During the First World War, he was a soldier in the Canadian army. After the war, he went to live in Southern California, where he had many jobs. He worked as a journalist, teacher, and pilot. He also wrote books, of course, and all his stories were about Philip Marlowe. Marlowe was a private detective in Los Angeles. A tough, but very honest man. All of these stories were also made into films, perhaps the best and most famous is The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He wrote his first story in The Black Mask Magazine in nineteen thirty-three, and wrote his first book in nineteen thirty-nine. That was The Big Sleep. He only wrote seven books, but an eighth, Poodle Springs, was unfinished and finally in nineteen eighty-nine, a writer named Robert B. Parker finished it. For this week's homework, I have got some of Chandler's work for you to read. And we will talk about it next lesson. Here you are. Now if you just hand them to the left and pass them along.