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The Tremendous Adventure of Major Brown

By G.K. Chesterton

Game: Hot Seat

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№ 1. ADVENTURE

• journey
• detective
• s tranger
• fear
• meeting
• impression
• story
• robbery

№ 2. GARDEN

• flowers
• house
• care
• pot
• watering
• apple tree
• plant
• vegetables

№ 3. ENTERTAINMENT

• game
• party
• guests
• cinema
• theater
• library
• restaurant
• dance

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1874-

1936

Complete the sentences:

1. He had never liked to be a military man, so

2. But it was not only the beauty of the flowers that surprised him. It was something else:

3. The only person the Major saw in that room was

4. A second later Brown was in the street again, and he was in time – in time to

5. He pushed the door of the coal cellar and stepped in, feeling in his pockets for matches. As his right hand was occupied

took a small house in a quit London street

the pansies were arranged in gigantic letters

a lady, sitting by the window

see something, which at first glance froze his blood

a pair of gigantic hands came out of the darkness…

6. But the Major was holding him by the coat collar and was not going to let him out of the cellar. Suddenly

7. When the Major finished the story of his mysterious adventures, he noticed that

8. “You see, the Adventure and Romance Agency has been started

9. Major Brown married Miss Jameson,

10. They are living a happy life, and the disciplined veteran

the giant’s coat buttons burst

the reaction of the brothers was different

to meet a great modern desire

the lady with red hair and the green dress

never asked his wife about the end of that story

Role play

Card 1 (Monologue): Imagine that you are Major Brown. You had retired from the army and now lived on a small pension. You had never liked being a military man. And you took a small house in a quiet London street.

Act out your thought about your future, about your past. Your hopes for the rest of your life.

Card 2 (Dialogue): Student A. You are Major Brown. You are walking along a narrow street and saw beautiful pansies in a barrow of one man. You want to buy it no matter what. Student B. You are this man with a barrow full of pansies. You don’t want to sell it in no case.

Act out dialogue. At least man with pansies offers Major Brown to get onto one wall.

Role play

Card 3 (Monologue): Imagine that you are Major Brown. You are standing on the wall and see the finest collection of pansies in England, but also you see the note – “Death to Major Brown”.

Act out your feelings in that moment.

Card 4 (Dialogue): Student A. You are Major Brown. You are in this strange house. You want to know what is happening. Student B. You are unknown lady. You can’t say anything.

Act out this situation. Major Brown have to be insistent ( настойчивым ). You don’t like that kind of jokes.

Role play

Card 5 (Monologue): Imagine that you are Major Brown. You’ve just been on the coal cellar and somebody tried to kill you.

Act out what do you fell. What are you going to do? Finally you remember about one private detective and decide to go to him.

Card 6 (Monologue): Imagine that you are Major Brown. You’ve just found out what really happened in that house. It was mistake. You are not Mister Brown for whom all this was played.

Act out your inner monologue about that. Remember your fear.

Role play

Card 7 (Dialogue): Student A. You are Major Brown. Student B. You are Mrs. Brown.

Act out the conversation between you two remembering this incident after your marriage.

The Adventure and Romance Agency

Is it better to live your own life or go to agencies like this and invent it.

Plan of the story:

1. Unexpected discovery 2. Strange house and cries 3. Attack 4. Private detective 5. Mr. Northover 6. Conclusion

Conclusion :

- What did we do at our lesson today?

- Which story did we read?

• Do you like the story?
• What is its main idea?

- Do you like our lesson?