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Excitement, adventure, and mystery all make up the world of fiction.
And here are some of the greatest names in fiction.
Who was the 'Queen of Crime'?
Agatha Christie, of course, the world's best known mystery writer.
Agatha Christie was born in Devon, England in 1890, and she created many fictional detectives.
The most famous are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Hercule Poirot is a Belgian detective, famous for his neat appearance, his obsession with order and his use of psychology in his investigations of crimes.
Miss Marple, on the other hand, is nothing like a typical detective.
At first glance she is an ordinary old lady who loves knitting and gossip but she can solve the hardest of mysteries and puts many criminals behind bars!
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Dame Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), the famous English 'Queen of Crime', creator of world - known detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, was born in England on 15 September 1890?
Dame Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), the famous English 'Queen of Crime', creator of world - known detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, was born in England on 15 September 1890.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children.
Her father died when Agatha was just ten years old.
She received no formal education, her mother and then governesses taught her at home to read before she entered and finished school in Paris in 1906.
Encouraged at an early age by her mother to write, Agatha started writing her first stories.
On 24 December 1914, she married a pilot Archie Christie, with whom she had a daughter, Rosalind.
During World War I Agatha worked as a nurse.
She got a great deal of knowledge about illness and poisons such as strychnine.
So while she was writing her detective stories she could easily describe all the symptoms of this or that illness.
Her first novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", where she used some of knowledge, was an immediate bestseller.
In 1926, the year of the death of her mother, Agatha Christie created some mystery of her own, disappearing for a time ; when she was found she said that she didn't remember where she had been.
Unfortunately, in 1928 Archie divorced Agatha.
She then travelled to the Middle East, Baghdad and Iraq.
There she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan.
They got married in Scotland in 1930.
She often accompanied him in his expeditions to the Middle East.
In 1974 Agatha Christie appeared for the last time in public for her play "Murder on the Orient Express".
When she was not travelling the world, her and Max's home in England was in the town of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, where she died peacefully on 12 January 1976.
A5. Agatha's mother was against her daughter's first attempts in writing 1) True 2) False 3) Not Stated A6.
Working as a nurse helped Agatha in writing her detective stories.
1) True 2) False 3) Not Stated A7.
Agatha's first detective novel was a success.
1) True 2) False 3) Not Stated A8.
Agatha had visited all European countries.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated.
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Помогите перевести текст с английского на русскийAt the beginning of the 19th century a little boy was born in the family of John Dickens, a clerk at the office in Portsmouth, and was named Charles?
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At the beginning of the 19th century a little boy was born in the family of John Dickens, a clerk at the office in Portsmouth, and was named Charles.
He had a sister who was older than himself, and there were several other children in the family.
When Charles was seven, her was sent to a school.
He was not a strong child.
He did not like to play cricket or football and spent all his free time reading.
In 1821 the family went to London and little Charles left behind his happiest years of his childhood.
His father was in debts, and the family became poorer and poorer.
The boy had to give up his studies.
Mr. Dickens was put into the debtor’s prison.
Little Charles learned had to know all horrors and cruelty of thelarge city.
He had to go to work at the blacking factory.
He worked there from morning till night.
When his father came put of a prison, Charles was sent to a school for some time.
Soon he got work as a clerk.
Then he learned stenography and became a reporter in Parliament.
In 1836 at the age of 24 Charles Dickens published his first book.
It was the collection of stories.
The title of the book was “Sketches by Boz”.
These were followed by “Pickwick Papers” and “Oliver Twist” and many other famous novels.
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers of the 19th century.
His novels are now translated into the most languages of the world.
Read the text and fill in the gaps?
Read the text and fill in the gaps.
Famous novelist Agatha Cristie 1______ born on Torquay, England in 1890.
She worked 2_____ a nurse but expressed interest in writing a murder mystery to her sister.
When her sister told her she didn’t have the ability to be a writer , Agatha 3______ to prove her sister wrong and started writing a novel.
4_____ first novel was published in 1920 and featured her most famous character, Detective Hercule Poirot.
She went on to write thirty novels 5_______ Poirot as the main character.
At one point early in her career, Agatha vanished 6______ her mother died and her husband left her.
1 A is B was C has D were 2 A as B like C for D by 3 A decide B decides C decided D deciding 4 A Her B She C Hers D Its 5 A with B as C and D by 6 A when B while C they D that.
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An elderly lady stopped to pull into a parking space when a young man in his new red Mercedes went around her and parked in the space she was waiting for.
The little old lady was so upset that she went up to the man and said "I was going to park there"
The man was really cheeky and he said, "That's what you can do when you're young and bright.
"
Well, this really upset the lady even more, so she got in her car and backed it up and then she stomped on the gas and plowed right into his Mercedes.
The young man ran back to his car and asked, "What did you do that for?
" The little old lady smiled and told him, "That's what you can do when you're old and rich!
".
In home groups?
In home groups.
Read one of the texts (A, B, or C) and do the task.
Make up a story about the life of the famous person using the outline.
. was born and grew up.
. worked.
. his / her ambition was.
. was the person who / whose.
He / She.
. it helped him / her to achieve a lot and made him / her famous.
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Mark Twain was a talented writer and wrote some of the funniest stories in the world.
His real name was Samuel Clemens.
He was born in 1835 and grew up in the little town of Hannibal, Missouri.
When Sam was twelve his father died.
The shock changed him and he became a different boy.
He stopped his little - boy games and thought about his mother's hard work and money problems.
He had to help his mother.
Sam went to work in his brother Orion's printing shop.
At that time Sam began to write funny stories and took the name Mark Twain.
Mark Twain had to change many jobs.
He worked hard and visited many places in the USA.
His experience and talent helped him to write his funny stories and people in America began to read and like what he wrote, and soon his stories became popular all over the world.
Ответить на вопрос 43?
Ответить на вопрос 43.
Agatha Christie is known all over the world as 1.
The queen of Great Britain 2.
A famous sportsman 3.
A scientist 4.
An artist 5.
The queen of the detective genre.
3. Put the verbs in the brackets into the Past Simple?
3. Put the verbs in the brackets into the Past Simple.
E. g.
Darren sent ( send) a long letter to Laura.
17. Jules Verne …….
( write) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
18. Sherlock Holmes ……( smoke) a pipe.
19. Miss Marple …….
( catch) many criminals.
20. …….
( Herculr Poirot / live ) in Belgium ?
21. How ……….
( Captain Nemo / travel) ?
22. ………….
( Dr Watson / help) Sherlock Holmes?
23. Agatha Christie …….
( create) the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
24. The professor and Axel …… ( find) a mysterious message.
25. Arthur Conan Doyle …….
( be) a famous writer.
26. Dr Frankenstein ……… ( meet) Captain Walton on the ice.
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