Презентация по английскому языку "Выдающиеся люди Великобритании"

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  Famous people of GreatBritain
  

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  Princess Diana is one of the most loved women in the world.
  Lady Di was famous for using her position and power to help people in need.
  “People’s princess touched the lives of the sick, the homeless and everyday people with her warmth and humanity.
  
  Diana, Princess of Wales
  

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  Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1952. Elizabeth II became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of her father, George VI, in 1952.
  She was a popular queen who was also respected for her knowledge and participation in state affairs.
  Queen Elisabeth II
  

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  Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime minister, and she held the office of PM for longer than anyone in the 20th century.
  Margaret Thatcher
  

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  Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

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  Charles Darwin was a British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin's most famous books are 'The Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'.
  Charles Darwin
  

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  William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English literature. He wrote dozens of plays which continue to dominate world theater 400 years later.
  William Shakespeare
  

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  Charles Dickens is one of the best English writers. Although his family was not poor by the standards of the time his father was arrested for debt. Little Charles began to work in a blacking warehouse. When his father was set free the boy was sent to school, where he did well, and at the age of fifteen began to work in a lawyer's office. Dickens was 19 when he became a reporter. While he was working for the newspaper «Morning Chronicle» he began to write novels
  Charles Dickens
  

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  Nelson was born at the Rectory of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, East England, UK, the son of the village rector Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine.
  In 1779 at the age of 20, he became captain of a frigate ship in the West Indies, and during the American War served under Admiral Robert Digby and later Lord Samuel Hood.
  Horatio Nelson
  

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  Newton, one of the greatest scientists of all times was born in 1642 in the little village in Lincolnshire, England.
  It is interesting how he discovered the law gravitation. Once, as he sat at the garden, his attention was drawn by the fall of an apple. Many people saw such an usual thing before.
  Newton died at the age of 84, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his monument stands today
  Sir Isaak Newton