Theme: The Most Popular Kazakh Writers. Synonyms, Antonyms
Theme: The Most Popular Kazakh Writers. Synonyms, Antonyms
Theme: The Most Popular Kazakh Writers. Synonyms, Antonyms
Subject: English
Theme: The most popular Kazakh writers. Synonyms, antonyms.
The type of lesson: Presentation lesson
Using Methods: Oral speech, visual and practical method, illustrative -
demonstrative.
Inter – subject connection: Kazakh, Russian, Kazakh literature, History.
Abai was a great Kazakh poet, musician and writer. He was born in Abai settlement
near the city of Semei. He was a well - known Kazakh poet, a great thinker, composer,
philosopher, the founder of written Kazakh literature, and its first classic. His father
Kunanbai was very strict. But his mother Ulzhan and grandmother Zere were kind,
warm-hearted and good-natured people. They were good story-tellers, too. They told
little Abai a lot of interesting stories, tales and legends of Kazakh people.
Abai went to a religious school at the age of 9. But when he was 13 he began to learn
Russian and entered the Russian school in Semei. He liked to read books of great
Russian poets and writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Krylov. Later Abai translated their
works into Kazakh and wrote a lot of masterpieces of literature. His poetry is very
popular nowadays.
The Words of Abai have been translated into many foreign languages. Abai
Kunanbaev died in 1904. Kazakh people are proud of their great poet. He is well-
known all over the world.
«Kara Sozder» [Book of Words] (prose) created by the great thinker constitute an
ethnic philosophical work. This creation of his is an exploration of Kazakh national
life in the second half of the 19th century. He influenced social affairs in the country
where he lived.
The name of Abai is known worldwide just as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Pushkin are
well - known in many countries, because his great words became a spiritual patrimony
of not only one nation, but of the entire humankind.
Ibray Altynsarin was a famous Kazakh educator and teacher of the 19th century. He
was born in 1841 in Torghai region. Altynsarin started a Cyrillic alphabet for the
Kazakh language. He opened many Kazakh-Russian schools and schools for girls. He
translated books and textbooks. He wrote the first Kazakh Grammar book. Altynsarin
travelled a lot and visited many countries. He liked children and wrote poems for
them. A lot of streets, institutes and schools are named after Altynsarin. There is an
Altynsarin museum in Kostanay.
Mukhtar Auezov was born in 1897 in Abai district in Semey region. His grandfather
Auez and his father Omarkhan were well-educated persons. Mukhtar Auezov was : - a
writer - a scientist-educator - one of the founders of Kazakh Soviet Literature - a
famous public figure. In 1928 he graduated from the faculty of History and philology
of Leningrad University. In 1930 he finished the post-graduated courses of the Turkic
department of the faculty of his Orient in the Middle Asian State University in
Tashkent. He was the first Kazakh professor lecturing on Kazakh Literature. His
novels are : “Kokserek”, “Abai zholy”, “Karash karash”, “Enlik-Kebek” and etc. The
most famous of his works is the novel “Abai zholy”. His first work “Enlik-Kebek”
was written in 1917.
T: Let’s revise the most useful words according to the theme of the lesson in Kazakh
and English.
көрнекті - outstanding
aтақты - famous
ойшыл - thinker
ағартушы - educator
аудармашы - translator
негізін қалаушы -the founder
сазгер - composer
өлеңдер - poems
білім - education
ұрпақ -generation
ғылым - science
ақын - poet
жазушы -writer
мұғалім - teacher
мәдениетті - cultural
шетел тілі - foreign language
ана тілі - mother tongue
VI. Tasks
• In 1860 he opened the specialized school for Kazakh children (for girls) to
teach them the Russian language.
• Being influenced by his mother he was fond of books and poetry.
• His father died when he was very young, that’s why he was brought up by his
grandfather.
• In 1928 he graduated from Leningrad University, where he studied at the
faculty of History and Philology.
• He was born in 1841 in Torgai Region.
• poet
• writer
• builder
• public figure
• innovator
• translator
• teacher
• worker
• student
• professor
• inventor
• actor
• philosopher
• thinker
• composer
• founder
E) Read the statements, choose 5 necessary sentences to tell about Mukhtar Auezov,
put them in the correct order:
F) Say «True or false»
1.Abai Kunanbayev was born in 1845.
3.He didn’t like to read books of great Russian poets and writers: Pushkin,
Lermontov, Krylov.
4. Abai translated their works into English and wrote a lotof masterpieces of
literature.
a) Grammar test.
T: Nowadays an educated person must know 3 languages such as Russian, Kazakh
and English and songs can help us to learn them. Let us sing and enjoy our favourite
songs such as a song by the Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev “The black of your
Eyes”.
– Let’s sing Abai’s song.
b) Giving the marks:
(teacher give marks to students who were very active at the lesson)
c) Giving the home task
- Your home task is the text A.Kunanbayev, Ibrai Altynsarin and Mukhtar Auezov, to
translate into Kazakh or Russian, to retell the text. And to write five synonyms,
antonyms in English.