Put the verbs in the right tenses. Rudyard Kipling is one of the outstanding British writers. He 1 (to be born) in 1865 in the family of an Englishman in India. He 2(get) his education in England but 3 (return ) to India in 1882. There he 4(spend ) 6 years working in colonial English press. There he 5(publish ) his first literary works. In 1890 he published his first novel “The Light that Failed”, which 6 ( bring ) him fame. He was one of the most popular writers of his time. During his life he 7 (visit ) South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. “Plain Tales from the Plain Hills”, “Barrack Room Ballads”, “Naulakka” enjoyed great popularity. During the years of Anglo-Boer War Kipling used to visit the English Army. His novel “Kim”8 ( write ) under the impressions of the War. In October 1902 his “Just so Stories for Little Children”9 (publish ). His fairy-tales from the book 10 (to be ) rather unusual for the British literature of that period. One can find the influence of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” in Kipling’s work. But this influence 11 ( not / prevent ) Kipling from creating absolutely new, unusual fairy-tales. The unusual effect of his tales 12 ( reach ) by the rhythm and the music of words. Those who were lucky to listen to Kipling reading his fairy-tales noted that they always sounded truthful. Besides, not only children but even adults 13 ( to be fond of ) “Just so Stories”. Together with “The Jungle Book” it still 14 (enjoy ) great popularity. In 1907 Kipling 15 ( award ) the Nobel Prize.
15 points
Choose the right answer A, B or C:
1. His father was John Lockwood Kipling, was
A. a teacher at the local School of Art.
B. a soldier.
C. a farmer.
2. From the ages of six to twelve young Kipling spent much time
A. with his parents in India.
B. in America.
C. in England with his aunt and uncle.
3.
A. He enjoyed going to school.
B. He couldn’t go to school and studied at home.
C. He was unhappy at school and soon became ill.
4. At the age of 17
A. he joined the army.
B. he returned to Lahore, India, and began writing as a journalist.
C. went to the university.
5. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier,
A. the daughter of an American lawyer.
B. an Indian girl.
C. an English rich girl.
6. He travelled
A. only to India.
B. all over the world.
C. to India and America.
7. R. Kipling was the most popular writer in the English-speaking world
A. at the beginning of the 19th century.
B. at the end of the 19th century.
C. in the 20th century.
8. Which of the stories he didn’t write
A. “Just so Stories”. “The Jungle Book”, “Plain Tales from the Hills”.
B. “Gunga Din”, “The White Man's Burden”.
C. “The Call of the Wild”, “Son of the Wolf”, “White Fang”.
9. He was a rare master of
A. prose .
B. verse.
C. prose and verse.
10. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize
A. in literature.
B. in Economic Sciences.
C. in Peace.
10 points
Guess whether it is true or false.
1. Kipling was born in Bombay, India.
2. His father was John Lockwood Kipling was an officer.
3. His mother ‘s name was Alice Macdonald.
4. Rudyard is a lake in Staffordshire, England.
5. He was just seventeen when he began writing as a journalist.
6. His fairy-tales were usual for the British literature of that period.
7. R.Kipling didn’t write poems about the Second World War.
8. He succeeded in writing short stories.
9. Kipling wrote poems and novels which criticized the UK's Army.
10. R.Kipling is known only as a shot-story writer for children.
11. He chose the most significant of the biblical phrase "Their Name Liveth For Evermore" for the Stones of Remembrance.
12. But Kipling's only son John died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos.
13. He died at the age of 70.
14. Rudyard Kipling was cremated and buried in Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
15. He wrote only prose.
15 points
Read the short text and fill in the words in the correct form. Don’t change the words themselves.
Rudyard Kipling was a well-known English ---------------. He was born in India and lived many years there. He knew the --------- of the people in India and the ----------- of the country. Many people know his book about Mowgli, a little -------------- boy, who lived in the jungle with the wolves.
Kipling had two ------------- – a boy and a girl, and when they were little, he told them tales which he made up himself. Later he ------------ these tales, and children in many countries like them very much.
Write
Live
Natural
India
Child
Publication
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Six serving men
I have six honest serving men.
They taught me all I knew.
Their names are What, and Why, and When,
And How, and Where, And Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west,
But after they have worked for me
I give them all a rest. /…/
But different folks have different views.
I know a person small.
She keeps ten million serving men
Who get no rest at all.
She send them on her own affairs
From the second she opens her eyes —
One million Hows, two million Wheres
And seven million Whys.
Boots
Р. Киплинг (1914)
We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin' over Africa —
Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin' over Africa —
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
Seven—six—eleven—five—nine-an'-twenty mile to-day —
Four—eleven—seventeen—thirty-two the day before —
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
Don’t—don’t—don’t—don’t—look at what’s in front of you.
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again);
Men—men—men—men—men go mad with watchin' em,
An' there's no discharge in the war!
Try—try—try—try—to think o' something different —
Oh—my—God—keep—me from goin' lunatic!
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
The Appeal
If I have given you delight
By aught that I have done,
Let me lie quiet in that night
Which shall be yours anon;
And for the little, little span
The dead are borne in mind,
Seek not to question other than
The books I leave behind.
Blue Roses - R. Kipling
Roses red and roses white
Plucked I for my love's delight.
She would none of all my posies--
Bade me gather her blue roses.
Half the world I wandered through,
Seeking where such flowers grew.
Half the world unto my quest
Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertime,
But my silly love had died,
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
It may be beyond the grave
She shall find what she would have.
Mine was but an idle quest--
Roses white and red are best
