Task 1. Read and complete: born, wrote, social, 15, this, people, opened, professor, interesting, favorite
My 1)________ Kazakh writer, Mukhtar Auezov, was 2)_________ in 1897. He is a man of encyclopedic knowledge and erudition. Mukhtar Auezov is a significant person both in his life and creative activity. He 3)__________more than twenty plays and many magnificent stories. The top of his activity was the epopee about Abai. The first 20 years of Auezov’s life resemble the childhood, youth and young years of his favorite poet and spiritual teacher- Abai. Later in his famous work he described the same steppe, the same ail, the same 4)________atmosphere. With his works Mukhtar Auezov raised the Kazakh literature up to the highest level. Many works of different genres belong to him. His brilliant translations of world literary classics confirm his great talent. He published many 5)_________ articles, made reports, composed textbooks and read lectures in colleges and universities. His professional researches became basis for some new branches in studying folklore, epos, history and linguistics of the Turks. He was elected as a6)__________ of the Moscow State University. His main work is closely connected with the image of the great son of the Kazakh people Abai. He devoted more than 7)________years of his life to writing this book. 8)__________ book was the most significant for him. As the writer said, the process of writing the novels about Abai turned into the most fascinating business of all his life. This book was called the original encyclopedia of many-sided features of the Kazakh people mode of life. It 9)________ a vivid variety of culture and history of the ancient land and showed the riches of its customs and traditions to the whole world. The works written by Mukhtar Auezov are still popular even now and are considered to be the original classics of the Kazakh literature. His name remained eternally in the memory of many 10)_________.​