Реферат по теме "The world of Harry Potter"
творческая работа учащихся по английскому языку (9 класс) по теме

                        МБОУ “Бухоловская СОШ”

    Реферат

“The world of Harry Potter”

Работу выполнила

ученица 9 класса

Лютова Евгения

Руководитель:

Короткова Елена Александровна

учитель английского языка

2013

Contents

1. Introduction                                                                        3
2. Main part

1. Review                                                                        3
2. Biography and creation of Joanne Rowling                        5
3. Charity and awards                                                         7
4. The places where the famous films were shot.
5. An amusement park “The world of Harry Potter”
6. Some wise quotations of Albus Dumbledore.                        11

3. Conclusion                                                                        12

4. Bibliography                                                                        13

1. Introductions

There are many books in the world, aren't there? Books are different, they bring to life of people some thoughts, desire, and sometimes the impulse to act, or do not make any impression at all.

My hobby is reading. And I have just read the Harry Potter series of books. The author of these books is Joanne Rowling.

After reading the "Harry Potter" I’ve thought that the writer is a real magician.She opened the door to a new life and let the magic come in my life!

Children of all the countries admire the main hero and his adventures. It seems almost impossible to imagine a world without the Harry Potter novels. Nowadays these books become a worldwide phenomenon, they encouraged kids (and adults) to drop everything in favor of their object of obsession - books.

So the magical world of Harry Potter, a world of flying cars and dragons, unicorns and magic potions, invisibility cloaks and evil powers, becomes real as readers discover truths about bravery, loyalty, choice, and the power of love. We believe in Harry because of his human qualities, especially his human frailties.

2.1 Review

Harry Potter is an orphan. His parents, Lily and James Potter, were killed when he was a year old. Their killer was the dark wizard Lord Voldemort. Voldemort tried to kill Harry as well, but something happened and Voldemort's attack didn't kill him. Instead, Lord Voldemort was hurt himself. Harry got a scar on his forehead and Voldemort disappeared.

At that time Voldemort was the most powerful wizard, and everybody was afraid of him. Other wizards didn't want to say his name and called him "You-Know-Who". When he disappeared, the whole wizard world celebrated, and Harry became a hero.

But Harry had to have a normal childhood, so he went to live with the family of his mother's sister: the Dursleys. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon hated the wizards and were terribly afraid of them. They made Harry's life very unhappy. He lived in a small cupboard, didn't get enough food and never heard a kind word from his relatives. His cousin Dudley bullied Harry and beat him up. But worst of all, Harry didn't know anything about his parents. Aunt Petunia told him only that his parents had been killed in a car accident.

That all changed when a letter arrived one day inviting Harry to study at Hogwarts School of Wizardry. On his eleventh birthday Harry got the most wonderful present: he found out that he was a wizard and was really famous. The whole wizard world knew that Harry had made the evil Lord Voldemort go away.

Harry had to learn a lot about being a wizard. Wizards live near ordinary people, but they protect themselves and their world carefully. An ordinary person is called a muggle (anybody who can't do magic). Magic can't be done in front of muggles, and most of the wizards live inside magical areas that are invisible to muggles.

They have their own shopping street called Diagon Alley, where wizards buy their broomsticks, cauldrons, wands and books of spells. They have their cafes and pubs, where they eat magic food and drink magic alcohol.They have their own banks, where goblins look after their magic money: knuts made of copper, sickles made of silver and galleons made of gold.

Harry goes to Hogwarts School. Hogwarts is a boarding school and Harry spends the whole year there. With its high towers, secret chambers, talking portraits and moving stairs, it is a very special place. No muggle can see it and muggle technology doesn't even work there.

Hogwarts teachers are very good wizards and the most powerful of them is the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. He is the only wizard who wasn't afraid of LordVoldemort. In fact, Lord Voldemort studied at Hogwarts himself and was Dumbledore's student.

When children come to the school, a magic hat, which can see into the heart of every child, sends them to different school houses. There are four houses in the school.

Children who have a brave, true heart go to Gryffindor. Those who are kind and hard-working go to Hufflepuff. Anyone who is intelligent and loves to learn goes to Ravenclaw, and someone who is cunning and always gets what he wants goes to Slytherin. A lot of dark wizards came from Slytherin.

All the people from one house live and study together. Each house has its own head (the main teacher), sports team and leaders. People from one house aren’t always good friends with people from other house. The houses compete with each other and at the end of the year the best house wins the school cup. If somebody is late or is rude to a teacher, they lose points for their house. There are the usual school punishment too: sometimes students get detention or have to do lines.

During his first year at school Harry studies magic subjects and makes friends and enemies. His best friends are Hermione Granger and RonWeasley. Harry is happy with his new life: every day he finds that he has more and more talents. He is clever, a very good student andalso good at sport. He plays Quidditch, the magic wizard sport that is played in the air on broomsticks. With Harry's help, his house wins some very important games. But Harry's adventures aren't over: the evil "You Know Who" isn't dead. He is trying to come back to the world, and he isn't alone. Somebody at Hogwarts is helping him. A very important magic object, the Philosopher's Stone, is hidden at Hogwarts. With the help of this stone anybody can produce the Elixir of Life which makes the drinker immortal. If Voldemort gets the Philosopher's Stone, he will come back forever. Voldemort's secret friend is trying to get to the stone. Harry and his friends think that they know the name of their enemy.

The first film was a successful debut of young British actors: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley. However, all the actors and actresses who played the roles of the adults are well-known stars.

2.2 Biographyand creation of Joanne Rowling

Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent where she went to Wyedean Comprehensive.

Joanne left Chepstow for Exeter University, where she earned a French and Classics degree, her course including one year in Paris. As a postgraduate she moved to London and worked as a researcher at Amnesty International among other jobs. She started writing the Harry Potter series during a delayed Manchester to London King’s Cross train journey, and during the next five years, outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first novel.

In that same year her mother died of Multiple Sclerosis and she left for Portugal to teach English, hoping to find a way to deal with her grief.

She married in October 1992 and gave birth to a daughter in 1993. When the marriage ended, she and Jessica returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh. Her life suddenly took a nose-dive. Fighting poverty and depression, she lived in a mice-infested flat and struggled to raise her baby daughter on a welfare check of 70 pounds ($100) a week.

Unable to heat her flat, she sat in cafés nursing an espresso for 2 hours at a time and worked feverishly on the manuscript of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ while her baby daughter slept in a pram.

The book was first published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in June 1997, under the name J.K. Rowling. The “K”, for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother’s name was added at her publisher’s request who thought that a woman’s name would not appeal to the target audience of young boys.

The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and was №1 in the adult hardback bestseller charts for a month after publication.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published on 8th July 1999 to worldwide acclaim and spent four weeks at №1 in the UK adult hardback bestseller charts.

The fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8th July 2000 with a record first print run of 1 million copies for the UK. It quickly broke all records for the greatest number of books sold on the first day of publication in the UK.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was published in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia on 21st June 2003 and broke the records set by Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire as the fastest selling book in history. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published in the UK, US and other English-speaking countries on 16th July 2005 and also achieved record sales.

The seventh and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published in the UK, US and other English speaking countries in 2007.

J.K. Rowling has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry’s school books within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief.

2.3 Charity and awards

J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of the Children’s High Level Group (now Lumos).

As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légiond’Honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University USA.

She supports a wide number of charitable causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.

In March 2001 she was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen, for services to children’s literature.

2.4 The places where the famous films were shot.

Thousands of Harry Potter fans, both young and old, come to Britain to see the places where the famous films were shot. They are surprised to learn that Hogwarts School was actually filmed in different places!

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

Do you remember Harry Potter's broom flying lessons? They were shot on the grounds of Alnwick Castle.

Alnwick Castle is one of the oldest and largest castles in Britain and is proudly called 'The Windsor of the North'. It was built in 1309 and it's still lived in! It has been home of the earls and dukes of Northumberland for 700 years!

The amazing thing is that the castleis open to the public (from March toOctober) and you can see a lot ofinteresting things there. In summer,for example, Hagrid andDumbledore look-alikesperform magic shows there.

Christ Church College, Oxford

Do you remember the magnificent dining hall where Harry Potter and other Hogwarts students had meals? In real life it's the Great Hall of Christ Church College, the largest college of Oxford University.

You won't see the floating candles here, but the atmosphere is still magic. Built in 1529, the Great Hall hasn't changed very much since that time. Only the roof had to be reconstructed once - after a fire in the 18th century.

The college's wonderful staircase leading up to the Great Hall was also used in many Hogwarts scenes.

The Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Hogwarts' Library is in fact the Bodleian Library, the main library of Oxford University. It's here that Hermione gets turned to stone and Draco is turned into a ferret.

The Bodleian Library (or the Bod, as Oxford University students call it) has one of the largest collections of books in the world - about 9 million! Many of them are written by hand!

Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester.

The magnificent cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral were used as the corridors of Hogwarts. It's here that the paralyzed victims are discovered and the warning letters in blood appear. The talking portraits, ghost scenes and the overflowing bathrooms were also filmed here.

Originally built as an abbey in 1089, the cathedral is famous for its splendid fan vaulting (the earliest example of this kind of ceiling in Britain) and its stained glass windows.

The Lavatorium (yes, it's really called that and it wasn't the monks' toilet but the place where they washed) is where Harry and Ron hide from a giant troll behind the pillars. The troll in the film is mainly computer-generated, but huge legs were used in filming to make it look more realistic!

Durham Cathedral, Durham.

Some of Hogwarts' corridors and classrooms (including Professor McGonagall's classroom) were shot at Durham Cathedral. This 12th-century building is famous not only for its architecture but also for its beautiful setting. In a nationwide poll it was voted the nation's best-loved building.

In the first film you can see Harry Potter walking through the snowy cloisters of Durham Cathedral with his owl, Hedwig. While the Gloucester cloisters are remarkable for their vaulted ceilings and glass stained windows, the Gothic windows in Durham's cloisters are open to the elements.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.

Another fantastic place to find traces of Harry Potter's school is Lacock Abbey. This wonderful abbey was founded in 1232 and for over 300 hundred years served as a nunnery. When King Henry VIII closed it down duringthe Reformation, it become a country house.

But most parts of the medieval abbey have remained unchanged! There is even a real cauldron there used for Professor Quirrelli'sDefenceAgainst the Dark Arts classroom.

One of the owners of Lacock Abbey wasWilliam Henry Fox Talbot, a British inventor and a pioneer of photography. His inventions in the early days of photography seemed like magic at the time.

Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scotland.

The Hogwarts Express train that carries Harry, Ron and Hermione to school each year is filmed in an actual railway line. It was built between 1897 and 1901 and consists of 21 arches, the tallest of which is 30 metres high.

2.5 An amusement park “The world of Harry Potter”

American fans of the Harry Potter books and films are very happy. A new theme park, the World of Harry Potter, opened to the public on June 18, 2010 in Florida.

Visitors to the park are able to:

•        walk about Hogsmeade, the magical village near Hogwarts;

•        discover the mysteries of the Forbidden Forest;

•        explore Hogwarts Castle (fans know it as the school for witches and wizards where Harry and his friends learned magic);

•        ride 3 great roller coasters;

•        try pumpkin juice, real butter bear, chocolate frogs as well as traditional British food;

•        buy a magic wand at Ollivander's shop;

•        buy everything for the game ofQuiddich;

•        send letters to their friends with a Hogsmeade postmark at the Owl Post.

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have already visited the park. They say they liked it very much.

2.6 Some wise quotations of Albus Dumbledore.

And the end of my report I want to read you some really wise quotations of Albus Dumbledore.

• “People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right” – “Людискореепризнаютчужиеошибки, чемправоту.”
• “It is our abilities that show what we truly are. Itisourchoices.” – “Наши решения показывают, кем мы являемся в действительности, гораздо лучше, чем наши способности.”
• “Numbingthepainfor a wailwillmakeitworsewhenyoufinallyfeelit” – “Если боль ненадолго заглушить, она станет еще невыносимей, когда ты почувствуешь её вновь”.
• “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when only remembers to turn on the light” – “Счастьеможнонайтидажевтемныевремена, еслинезабыватьобращатьсяксвету.”
• “Curiosity is not a sin …. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity ” – “Любопытство — непорок, ноегонадодержатьвузде.”

3. Conclusion

In conclusion I want to say I am amazed by the writer’s own history of life and hermain heroes. Joanne Rowling is one of those self-made persons, who achieved success in life and become one of the richest women in the world with her own talents and hard work. I’ve read all books and watched all the movies about Harry Potter. I wish that someday I could read all books about Harry Potter in the originaland visit an amusement park in Florida.

Soyou see I study English to make my dreams come true.

4. Bibliography

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3. Официальный сайт Джоан Роулинг http://www.jkrowling.com/ 

4. http://www.wizardingworldharrypotter.com/ источник видеофильма