понеділок, 3 травня 2021 р.

Дистанційне навчання 10-A (04.05.2021) Культурознавство Великої Британії

Lesson

Tuesday, the fourth of May

Theme: British musical heritage, its pan-European roots and national features

Do exercise 1

Homework

Write about your favorite British artist (you can make a presentation). Tell us about the beginning of his/her musical career, about the honors, awards and achievements in his/her career, and your own impression of the energy of this person.

Send a photo to my email till 17:00

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You are free to ask questions

вівторок, 27 квітня 2021 р.

Дистанційне навчання 10-A (28.04.2021) English Literature

Lesson

Wednesday, the twenty eighth of April

Theme: The Moon and Sixpence. Short stories.

W. Somerset Maugham’s Novel The Moon and Sixpence

Read the summary. Follow the link.

https://recap.study/summary/2020/british/178.html

· First Published: 1919

· Type of Work: Novel

· Type of Plot: Biographical

· Time of Work: Late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries

· Setting: England, France, and Tahiti

· Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction, Novel

· Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Adultery, Creative process, Ethics, Painting or painters, Leprosy, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean

· Locales: France, Europe, Paris, France, London, England, Marseilles, France, Tahiti, Central America and West Indies, United Kingdom

About the book The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is said to be loosely based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

The novel is written largely from the point of view of the narrator, who is first introduced to the character of Strickland through his (Strickland's) wife and strikes him (the narrator) as unremarkable. Certain chapters are entirely composed of the stories or narrations of others which the narrator himself is recalling from memory (selectively editing or elaborating on certain aspects of dialogue, particularly Strickland's, as Strickland is said by the narrator to be limited in his use of verbiage and tended to use gestures in his expression).

Strickland is a well-off, middle-class stockbroker in London sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. Early in the novel, he leaves his wife and children and goes to Paris, living a destitute but defiantly content life there as an artist (specifically a painter), lodging in run-down hotels and falling prey to both illness and hunger. Strickland, in his drive to express through his art what appears to continually possess and compel him inside, cares nothing for physical comfort and is generally indifferent to his surroundings, but is generously supported while in Paris by a commercially successful but hackneyed Dutch painter, Dirk Stroeve, a friend of the narrator's, who immediately recognizes Strickland's genius. After helping Strickland recover from a life-threatening condition, Stroeve is repaid by having his wife, Blanche, abandon him for Strickland. Strickland later discards the wife (all he really sought from Blanche was a model to paint, not serious companionship, and it is hinted in the novel's dialogue that he indicated this to her and she took the risk anyway), who then commits suicide - yet another human casualty (the first ones being his own established life and those of his wife and children) in Strickland's single-minded pursuit of Art and Beauty.

After the Paris episode, the story continues in Tahiti. Strickland has already died, and the narrator attempts to piece together his life there from the recollections of others. He finds that Strickland had taken up with a native woman, had two children by her (one of whom dies) and started painting profusely. We learn that Strickland had settled for a short while in the French port of Marseilles before traveling to Tahiti, where he lived for a few years before finally dying of leprosy. Strickland left behind numerous paintings, but his magnum opus, which he painted on the walls of his hut before losing his sight to leprosy, was burnt down after his death by his wife by his dying orders.

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четвер, 22 квітня 2021 р.

Дистанційне навчання 10 - А (24.04.2021) Основи ділового спілкування

Lesson

Saturday, the twenty fourth of April

Theme: Working conditions and wages. Employee training. Responsibilities of management.

Working conditions refers to the working environment and aspects of an employee’s terms and conditions of employment. This covers such matters as: the organisation of work and work activities; training, skills and employability; health, safety and well-being; and working time and work-life balance. Pay is also an important aspect of working conditions.

Working conditions are at the core of paid work and employment relationships. Generally speaking, working conditions cover a broad range of topics and issues, from working time (hours of work, rest periods, and work schedules) to remuneration, as well as the physical conditions and mental demands that exist in the workplace.

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