Презентация по английскому языку к учебнику Spotlight 10 "The railway children"

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

MADE BY : ALEXANDER IVANOV

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN  IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY  EDITH NESBIT , ORIGINALLY SERIALISED IN  THE LONDON MAGAZINE  DURING 1905 AND FIRST PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM IN 1906.

• This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live in a respectable suburban villa with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants, until one day great disgrace and poverty befalls them. Father is taken away to prison (but they do not know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line.

• Left without servants, children learn to take care of themselves. And they spend all their free time near the railway, where they are waiting for incredible adventures, thanks to which, as well as the happy occasion and the “Green Dragon” daily express train, the children get acquainted with the Old Gentleman, who knows the secret of the disappearance of his father ...

• Mother writes stories to earn what little they live on and they get used to being poor and have to learn not to steal coal from the railway station, even if they have so little to keep warm by. Sometimes they argue and have crises, as one does, but in time they make many new friends, and amusing adventures aplenty happen near the railway and the canal. They develop the habit of waving to the train as it goes past and sometimes the people in the coaches wave back. Their friendly habits makes them one special friend in particular, who although he mostly just goes by in the train, eventually gets to know them, and helps them out in various ways. And somehow all the good things that they do add up together and end up coming back to them, and there is happy ending to it all.

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