w some curious facts about books (слайд 5).
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Many, many years ago a town crier ran through the streets and shouted out all the news. But now we live in the Atomic Age. Too many things happen too quickly for us to learn them in the old fashioned way. That is why we have to read more and more in order to find out what is happening in the world. Have you ever thought about the kind of books people used long ago. It is only in the last 500 years that books have been printed on paper. Before that time the only way of making books was to write them out by hand. No one knows when writing first began, but we have found drawings on the walls of caves which are at least 25,000 years old.
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T. Now lets read the text about the first English printer William Caxton (слайд 6).
СЛАЙД 6
J. Gutenberg
The invention of paper played a very impor - tant part in the development of books. In the 11th century the art of papermaking reached Europe but no trace of printing was found in Europe un - til 1423. It is known Johann Gutenberg secretly tried out ways of printing in Strasbourg, Germa - ny, in 1440.
The knowledge of the methods of printing spread so quickly over the Continent of Europe that by year 1487 nearly every country had start - ed printing books. The first person to print books in the English language was William Caxton, in Russia -- Ivan Fedorov.
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WILLIAM CAXTON
William Caxton is the first English printer. He was born in Kent in 1422. His father was a farmer. William did not want to become a farmer like his fa - ther. So his father sent him to London. He worked in an office which traded with different countries. William li
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