Курсовая работа: An Evergreen topic in British classical literature, children’s poems and everyday speech: patterns of climate in the British isles

“It was raining…”

“I wonder will there be rain today? It’s a little cloudy in the western part of the British Isles; perhaps it will spread to the eastern part. The barometer though doesn’t assume of any substantial changes in the condition of atmosphere”;

“Still I hope that there will be no more frosts”;

“It has been cool since the morning, hasn’t it?”

So, all these descriptions of seasons and weather and mentioned before children’s poems, dialogues, excerpts from different works about seasons and months prove that our hypothesis is right. Therefore, the topic of the weather is the most interesting, most favourite and most often discussed topic in the British Isles.

Conclusion

In the conclusion we would like to say that

1) British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable. That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild. Snow may come but it melts quickly.

2) Each author builds his own world of nature with weather, scenery, hills, rivers and others.

3) There are a lot of children’s poems about seasons and weather.

4) In Great Britain the weather is always an interesting topic of the conversations.

Finally, we think that our work could be useful for teachers and schoolchildren because it contains a lot of poems. Also, it includes many descriptions of different seasons and weather.

The list of literature

climate season weather literature

1. Bernard Shaw “Pygmalion” Избранныепьесы. На английском языке. М.: “Менеджер”, 2006.

2. Jerome K. Jerome “Three men in a boat to say nothing of the dog” “ИздательствоВысшаяшкола”, 1976 (second edition, Moscow Higher School 1976).

3. Бурлакова А.П. “TheABCfun”, М.: "Просвещение", 1981.

4. ВасильеваИ.Б. “English Reader sixth form”, М.: "Просвещение", 1976.

5. Верещагина И.Н., Притыкина Т.А. “Onwego”, М.: "Просвещение",1994.

6. Верхогляд “Stories for Children”, М.: "Просвещение", 1991.

7. Выборова Г.Е., Махмурян К.С. “EasyEnglish”, М.: “Владос”, 1994.

8. Журнал "Иностранные языки в школе", №1, 1989; №5, 1990; № 2,5,6, 1996; №3, 1997; № 4, 2000; №6, 2002, № 3, 2003.

9. Костенко Г.Т. “Readerforsummer”, 1991, с изменениями “Просвещение”, 1981.

10. ЛэмЧ., ЛэмМ. “Tales from Shakespeare” (after Charles and Mary Lamb),/ АдаптацияК.В. Ингал.- М.: "Просвещение", 1984

11. Интернет

Supplement

Illustrations to the different seasons and weather

The most unpleasant aspect of British climate – fog