2) Match
the names of the famous British people (1-10) with the information about them
on the right (a-j).
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1) Robert Burns
2) Agatha Christie
3) Sir Isaac Newton
4) Joseph Turner
5) Paul McCartney
6) Margaret
Thatcher
7) William Shakespeare
8) Daniel Jacob
Radcliffe
9) Horatio Nelson
10) Charles Darwin
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a) A well-known scientist
b)A Scottish poet
c) The Prime Minister
d)A famous singer
and musician
e) A writer of detective stories
f) A famous actor
g)A famous artist
h)An English
admiral
i) A famous writer
of plays and a poet
j) A famous
biologist
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3) Match
the names of the famous American people (A-F) with the sentences (1-5). One
name is extra.
A. Walt
Disney
B. Neil
Armstrong
C. Martin
Luther king
D. Henry
Ford
E. Charlie
Chaplin
F. Mark
Twain
1) The
American astronaut first stepped on the surface of the Moon.
2) His
cartoon films are popular all over the world.
3) He
was the leader of the Black civil rights movement in the USA.
4) He
was a famous American actor called “The Little Tramp”.
5) He
was the first to use an assembly line in car making, which made cars
4) Match
the names of the famous British people (A-F) with the sentences (1-5). One name
is extra.
A. William
Shakespeare
B. Sir Isaac Newton
C. Princess Diana
D. Paul McCartney
E. Daniel Defoe
F. Horatio Nelson
1) All the British
admire that man. He was a brave and skillful admiral. He won the battle of
Trafalgar.
2) The British called
her “the Queen of people’s hearts”. She was well-known for her charity; she
helped people with dangerous diseases. At the age of 20 she married Prince
Charles and they had two sons.
3) His name is well
known all over the world. He acted at the London theatre called “The Globe” and
wrote tragedies, historical plays, comedies and poetry. His plays are still
popular – not only in England but in the whole world.
4) He is one of the
greatest men in the history of science. He was born in a small village in
England in 1642, studied mathematics and physics at Cambridge University. He
discovered the universal law of gravitation.
5) He was a famous
English writer of the eighteenth century. He wrote his famous book when he was
nearly 60 years old. His book was based on the real adventures of a sailor, who
had lived alone for four years on a desert island. For this book he was called
“the father of English prose”.
5) There are a lot of
outstanding writers in Great Britain. Their works are well known all over the
world. Do you know who wrote these books? Match the authors (a-i) and their works
(1-10).
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1) “Romeo and
Juliet”
2) “David
Copperfield”
3) “The adventures
of Sherlock Holmes”
4) “Alice in
Wonderland”
5) “The cat that
walked by himself”
6) “Headless rider”
7) “Robinson
Crusoe”
8) “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
9) “Gulliver’s
travels”
10) “Treasure Island”
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a) Rudyard Kipling
b) Charles Dickens
c) William
Shakespeare
d) Conan Doyle
e) Lewis Carroll
f) Robert Louis
Stevenson
g) Maine Reid
h) Daniel Defoe
i) Jonathan Swift
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6) Read
the texts and decide which writer the sentence is about.
1) His medical
knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories.
2) He had to work at
the age of ten.
3) He started the
fashion of detective story.
4) She is the Queen
of crime.
5) At the age of 25
he became one of the best newspaper reporter in London.
6) He knew the life
of London very well.
7) The books of this
writer have been translated into 103 foreign languages.
8) This writer didn’t
go to school and got education at home.
9) The main character
of his books is the most famous detective in the world.
Charles Dickens
Charles
Dickens was a famous English writer. He was born on the 7th of
February, 1812. His father worked in an office. He was a very clever man, but
he was very poor. When Charles was 10 years old, his family went to London.
There his father got into debt (as he had little money) and then into debtor's
prison. So little Charles began to work when he was ten. He worked at a small
factory in London, pasting labels on blacking bottles. He had to work at the
factory for two years. Then he went to school for three years. At the age of 15
he began to work in a London lawyer’s office. He didn’t like this work. When he
was 25 years old he became one of the famous and best newspaper reporters in London.
He liked this work. He knew the life of London and wrote about it in his
articles.
In
1837 he published his first novel «The Pickwick Papers». And the young reporter
became a famous writer. Then he published novel after novel - «Oliver Twist»,
«Dombey and Son», «David Copperfield» and many other good books.
He
is one of the greatest novelists in the English literature. Dickens lived more
than a hundred years ago, but people in the whole world like to read his books
today, because in his books he showed a real world and people of Victorian
England.
Arthur
Conan Doyle
With
the words "Elementary, my dear Watson ..." the most famous detective
of all time, Sherlock Holmes, starts to explain a crime to his friend, Dr.
Watson. That phrase has now entered the English language. Who invented Sherlock
Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle was his inventor. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in
Scotland, of Irish parents. He was a doctor. In 1882 he moved from Scotland to
England to set up a practice. One of the doctors he worked for, Dr. Joseph
Bell, was the model for Sherlock Holmes's friend, Dr. Watson. Conan Doyle's
medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories. Conan Doyle
started the fashion of the detective story. Today the fashion goes on — with
Simenon's Inspector Maigret stories and the stories of other writers. Sherlock
Holmes after more than eighty years is still the most famous detective in the
world.
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the novelist, first created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in 1885.
Six years later, when he wrote another group of stories about the detective,
Sherlock Holmes was a name that everybody knew. When Conan Doyle began to get
tired of writing detective stories, he decided to 'kill' Holmes. He wrote a
story in which Holmes meets his great enemy, Professor Moriarty, in
Switzerland. Holmes and Moriarty fight, and fall over a cliff and are both
killed. The public didn't like it. Conan Doyle had to write another story in
which Holmes comes back. Conan Doyle was a famous writer. He became popular
because of his love for people
Agatha Christie
Agatha
Christie is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78
detective novels, 19 plays, and 6 romantic novels. Her books have been
translated into 103 foreign languages. They are the third best-selling books in
the world (after Shakespeare's works and the Bible). Many of her novels and
short stories have been filmed.
Agatha
Christie was born at Torquay, Devonshire. She was educated at home and took
singing lessons in Paris. She began writing at the end of the First World War.
Her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was published in
1920. That was the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, who became one of the
most famous private detectives since Sherlock Holmes.
When Agatha
Cristie got tired of Hercule Poirot she invented Miss Marple, a deceptively
mild old lady with her own method of investigation.
Agatha
Christie's success with millions of readers lies in her ability to combine
clever plots with excellent character drawing and a keen sense of humour with a
great observation. Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in
suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always
conquered in her novels.
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