SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS ALSO KNOW AS MARK TWAIN

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He was sickly as a boy, but grew to be healthy. He was both adventurous and mischievous. In 1839, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. He spent much of his time playing along the Mississippi River and in the woods nearby. He spent summers at an uncles farm where hed get into mischief along with his group of friends. At the farm, he also saw several disturbing incidents, including slave beatings and murder, which he later used as material for his novels. Samuels father died in 1847, and he left school and became a printers apprentice to help support his family. He left Hannibal in 1853 to pursue his printing work in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Iowa. From 1857 until the Civil War started in 1861, he piloted a riverboat on the Mississippi River. After the war, he went to Nevada to prospect for silver and gold, but he didnt like the Wests hardships. He returned to the East and worked as a reporter under the pseudonym of "Mark Twain," which was a boating phrase that indicated two fathoms of water. In 1864, he went to San Francisco and wrote for magazines and newspapers. In 1866, he started traveling extensively, visiting Hawaii, Europe, and the Middle East, studying people to gather material for his writing. In 1870, Samuel married Olivia Langdon. They had a son who died in infancy and three daughters. The family lived in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1871 until 1891. In 1872, he published his first book Roughing It. He published his first of many novels, The Guilded Age, in 1873. In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and in 1885, he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Clemens was often depressed and melancholy during his last twenty years of life. He had financial obligations after several failed investments, and he went on a lecture tour in Europe in 1895 and 1896 to raise money to pay his debts. During the tour, his daughter Suzy died. His wife Olivia died in 1904. His youngest daughter Jean died in 1909. His family members deaths and his own poor health added to his depression. He received honorary degrees from Yale in 1901 and from the University of Missouri in 1902, and he received another honorary degree from Oxford in 1907. On April 21, 1910, Samuel Clemens died of angina. 1. Answer the questions. 1) Where was S. L. Clemens born? __________________________________________________ 2) What was he like as a child? _____________________________________________________ 3) When did his family move to Hannibal? ____________________________________________ 4) Where did he spend his summers? ________________________________________________ 5) What jobs did he have? _________________________________________________________ 6) What did Mark Twain mean? ___________________________________________________ 7) What did he do in San Francisco? __________________________________________________ 8) How many children did Samuel and Olivia have? ______________________________________ 9) When did he publish his first novel? ________________________________________________ 10) Why was he depressed during the last 20 years of his life? ______________________________ 11) What did S. L. Clemens die of? _____________________________________________________

2. Find verbs in the Past Simple in the text. Copy them into the correct column, find their infinitive forms and translate them into Slovene. REGULAR VERBS Past Simple Infinitive Slovene moved move preseliti IRREGULAR VERBS Past Simple Infinitive Slovene was be biti

3. Put the following sentences into negative and question forms. a) He was sickly as a boy. X ______________________________________ ? ______________________________________ b) Samuel's father died in 1847. X ______________________________________ ? ______________________________________ When __________________________________

c) S. L. Clemens spent summers at an uncle's farm. X _________________________________________________________ ? _________________________________________________________ Who ______________________________________________________ Where ____________________________________________________

4. Read the text again. Look at the information in bold. Ask questions. (in your NBs) 5. Here is a paragraph from Mark Twain's book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapter 2, p.5). Complete it. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple.
Three or four months __went__ (go) past and it was winter time. The Widow __________ (send) me to school every day. I __________ (can) spell and read and write a little. They __________ (want) to teach me numbers, but I __________ (not like) them and I __________ (not learn) very much. At first I __________ (hate) school, but after that it __________ (be) OK. When I __________ (get) really bored with it, I __________ (not go). The teacher __________ (hit) me the next day, but I __________ (not mind). Soon I even __________ (like) living with the Widow. Sometimes I still __________ (sleep) in the woods, but most of the time I liked sleeping in a bed. I __________ (not know) where Pap was. Paps my dad. He __________ (come) to town sometimes. Ialways __________ (hide) in the woods when he came to town. One day, I __________ (hear) that he was dead. But you could never be sure about Pap.