Календарь преподавателя английского языка. English Teacher’s Calendar

А.Ф. Артемова 
О.А. Леонович

КАЛендАрь препОдАвАтеЛя 

АнгЛийсКОгО языКА

ENglish 

tEachEr’s calENdar

Москва
Издательство «ФлИнта» 
2020

3-е издание, стереотипное

УДК 811.111(075.8)
ББК  81.2англ-923

  A86

Артемова А.Ф.
Календарь преподавателя английского языка. English Teacher’s 
Calendar [Электронный ресурс] / А.Ф. Артемова, О.А. Леонович. 
— 3-е изд., стер. — М. : ФЛИНТА,   2020. — 134 с.

ISBN 978-5-9765-1900-8 

“English Teacher’s Calendar” содержит памятные даты, связанные 

с жизнью и деятельностью известных английских и американских 
деятелей культуры: писателей, поэтов, драматургов, художников; 
изобретателей, политиков и др.

Предназначается для студентов и преподавателей языковых ву
зов,  учителей школ, а также для широкого круга лиц, изучающих 
английский язык.

УДК 811.111(075.8)
ББК  81.2англ-923

ISBN 978-5-9765-1900-8        
© артемова а.Ф., леонович О.а.,   

2015

          © Издательство «ФлИнта», 2015

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Оглавление

Preface .........................................................................................4

January .........................................................................................7

February ..................................................................................... 19

March ........................................................................................ 31

April ........................................................................................... 41

May ............................................................................................ 51

June ........................................................................................... 61

July ............................................................................................ 69

August ........................................................................................ 79

September .................................................................................. 89

October ...................................................................................... 99

November ................................................................................ 111

December ................................................................................. 123

Bibliography ............................................................................. 133

Preface

The present “Calendar” is something of a pioneer work. There can be 
little doubt that in our country where there has always been a keen interest 
in English as the primary foreign language to be taught in schools and 
studied in colleges and universities such a calendar will be welcomed. The 
“English Teacher’s Calendar” is small. It is designed to live on the desk, for 
quick and frequent references. It is intended not only for the use of teachers 
or students of English but for all those who are interested in English. In 
short, the Calendar is aimed at the widest possible audience. One of the 
greatest problems was to decide what should be included and what omitted. 
Clearly, those fields (events, holidays, names, births, deaths, etc.) that are 
peculiarly “English” or “American” must be represented. But the authors 
also realize that not all aspects of the British or American way of life have 
been considered and included. Limited to quite a compact edition this work 
makes no claim to cover all the events. Our intention has been to focus the 
“Calendar” on the real needs of a student or teacher of English in both 
classroom and extracurricular work.

JANUARY

JaNUarY
J
anuary is the month when toes and fingertips tingle and cheeks are rosy 
from a day spent skating out-of-doors. This is the heart of winter.
January is named after the old Roman god Janus. He was a two-faced 
god, with one face looking towards the past and the other towards the future. 
Janus was considered so alert and watchful that images of him stood guard 
in the doorways of Roman homes.
There is a stillness in the January woods. A carpet of snow hushes the 
sounds of small animals who do not sleep the winter away. Their footprints 
make tiny patterns that barely disturb the white carpet.
However, there is a surprise or two for sharp eyes. Here are plants with 
leaves that show green all through the winter. Several kinds of moss make 
vivid patches of green in the wintry woods.
The American holly with its clusters of red berries shows up handsomely 
against the ice and frost. Spruce, hemlock, and pine trees stand like tall 
soldiers dressed in green uniforms.
Winter is the time to make friends with small animals who live in the 
woods all year round. The busy grey squirrel is as active in January as in 
June. The porcupine nibbles on the bark of the hemlock tree, leaving tiny 
chips of wood on the ground. The swift rabbit bounds over the snow-covered 
ground in search of food.
New Year’s Day, January, 1, is a day for visiting friends or receiving 
guests at home. This is the day to wish one’s friends “A Happy New Year”. 
Some people make worthwhile New Year resolutions at this time — few are 
able to keep them for the entire year!
Of course, in the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed, 
summer is at its height. The woods are green, and plants are thriving. It’s 
the time of year to be outdoors. Beaches are crowded, and summer sports 
are great attractions.
January, the start of the New Year, is a hopeful time, and good wishes to 
all in every language are echoed around the world.

Place in year: 1st month.
Number of days: 31.
flower: Snowdrop.
Birthstone: Garnet.
Zodiac signs: Capricorn, the Goat (December 22—January 19), and 
 
Aquarius, the Water Bearer (January 20—February 18).

What matter how the night behaved?
What matter how the north wind raved?
Blow high, blow low, not all the snow
Could quench our hearth-fire’s ruddy glow.
John Whittier
Historical firsts
7 
First American presidential election, 1789. Transatlantic telephone 
service between New York and London first began, 1927.
9 
Seeing Eye dogs first trained to guide the blind in Nashville, 
Tennessee, 1929.
10 
First great oil discovery in Texas, 1901. First United Nations General 
Assembly met in London, 1946.
21 
Nautilus, first atomic submarine, launched, 1954. 
23 
Elizabeth Blackwell, first modern woman physician, graduated 
from Geneva Medical School of Western New York, 1849.
24 
Gold first discovered in California, 1848. 
27 
Canadian Great Western Railway first opened, 1854. Thomas 
Edison granted the first patent for his incandescent light, 1880.
29 
First players elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, 1936. 

Holidays and events
1 
New Year’s Day. Bank Holiday. 

One may hear children singing:
I wish you a merry Christmas
 A happy New Year,
A pocket full of money
 And a cellar full of beer,
A good fat pig
 To last you all the year,
Please to give me a New Year’s gift
 For this New Year.

Or reciting:

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
I’ve come to wish you a happy New Year.
I’ve got a little pocket and it’s very thin,
Please give me a penny to put some money in.
If you haven’t got a penny, a halfpenny will do,
If you haven’t got a halfpenny, well —
God Bless You!

first foot. Scotland and N. England. Dark haired men carrying bread 
and coal.
2 
Bank Holiday (Scotland) 

“The losing horse blames the saddle”
3 
alaska became the 49th state of the Union in 1959. It is the largest 
in area  and the smallest in population of all the 50 states.
5 
edward the confessor (d. 1066), king of England (1042—1066) 
nicknamed for his piety and his foundation of a new Westminster 
Abbey.
6 
epiphany or Twelfth Day. In olden times it was the most popular 
festival next to Christmas, and Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”, 
produced in 1602, was written to be acted at the Twelfth Night festivals.

carl Sandburg (b. 1878), poet, novelist, and author of one of the great 
biographies of modern times, “Abraham Lincoln”. Twice won the Pulitzer 

Prize, America’s highest literary award. His works include collections of 
poetry (“The People, Yes”), folk songs and a novel “Remembrance Rock”.

“Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” 
(Poetry Considered)

“I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.”
(C. Sandburg)
7 
first Baloon crossing of the English Channel in 1785. 

“The greatest strokes make not the best music”
10 
Penny Post — uniform letter postage rates (of one penny), dependent on weight and regardless of distance, were introduced in 
England in 1840.
11 
Boer War began in 1899. 
12 
Jack London (b. 1876). US novelist. His novels include “The Call of 
the Wild”, “The Iron Heel” and the autobiographical “Martin Eden”.

agatha christie (d. 1976). British author of detective fiction. She wrote 
over 50 popular detective stories, creating well-known fictional detectives 
Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Her works include “The Mysterious 
Affair at Styles”, “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Death on the Nile”, 
“The Mousetrap”.

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older 
she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
(A. Christie)
13 
edmund Spencer (d. 1599). English poet. His major work “The 
Fairie Queen”, a long moral allegory, was dedicated to Elizabeth I 
and published in 6 books.

Stephen foster (b. 1826). American poet and composer, is best known 
for his songs of the Southern Negro of pre-Civil War days: “Old Folks at 
Home”, “Old Black Joe”, “Oh! Susanna”. Some of his better-known senti