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Listen to the text about two authors and compare them. Example: 1) … wrote science fiction stories. Both the authors wrote science fiction stories. 2) Wells wrote in English wrote in English. 3) Both the authors wrote about flying to other planets wrote about flying to other planets. 4) Wells wrote about people on the Moon wrote about people on the Moon. 5) Both the authors wrote for news-papers wrote for newspapers. 6) Wells taught in a school taught in a school. 7) Wells made people think about serious problems made people think about serious problems. Текст аудирования: HOW IT ALL BEGAN Science’fiction or sci’fi stories appeared in the 19 th century with the boom in technology. One of the fathers of sci’fi literature was Jules Verne, a French writer. When Jules Verne was only beginning his career, he wrote stories and newspaper articles and he was not very successful. He became famous when in 1863 he began a series of stories of imaginary journeys into the unknown. Verne’s journeys took his readers to the North Pole, under the sea, to the centre of the Earth and to other worlds. In his book From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne describes a trip around the Moon. His characters only look at the Moon but don’t walk on it. Another science fiction writer, Herbert George Wells, an Englishman, actually put his characters on the Moon in his book The First Men on the Moon. Wells began his career as a teacher, then wrote for a newspaper and finally became a popular writer. Her’ bert Wells did not only entertain the reader with his stories, he also asked important questions about peo’ ple’s life and future. Wells was the first to write about machines of war, a kind of atom bomb and many other things that later became the 20 th century reality. He first wrote that the Earth could be visited by life forms which might be aggressive and cruel to people. Well’s most famous book is probably The Invisible Man. Grif’ fin, the main character, makes a scientific experiment because he wants power. As a result he loses his body and his contact with other people. B. Match the names of the books with their authors. a) “Around the World in Eighty Days” b) “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” c) “The Invisible Man” d) “The War of the Worlds” e) “The Time Machine” f) “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”

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