Do you know these famous British people?
1. Some jobs of people who sometimes become very famous are: …
2. Join the names, faces and short information
a) William Shakespeare
b) John Lennon
c) Diana, Princess of Wales
d) King Henry VIII
e) Queen Elizabeth I
f) Isaac Newton
g) Queen Elizabeth II
h) J. K. Rowling
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8. 2.
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6. 4.
V.) … is one of the most famous writers in the world. He was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He lived in London too He wrote 37 plays including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer´s Night Dream etc. Even today you can see his plays in theatres all over the world.
III.) …was born in Liverpool in October 1940. In 1960, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he formed a group called The Beatles. Later Ringo Star joined them as a drummer. They became the most successful group ever. When The Beatles broke up he continued his solo career. In December 1980 he was shot and died at the age of 40.
VIII.) … was born in 1961. She came from a rich and famous family. Her life changed when she married Prince Charles, the Queen´s son. They had two sons, William and Harry. .She helped lots of charities, especially for children and victims of AIDS and land mines. People loved her very much. But her marriage was not happy and in 1996 she got divorced. In 1997 she died in a car crash in Paris.
VI.) … was born in 1491 and in 1509 he married Catherine of Aragon. He wanted a son very much but Catherine had only one daughter. He fell in love with a younger woman, Ann Boleyn. So he divorced Catherine and married Ann. As the Pope did not agree with his divorce he made himself the Head of the Church of England. But Ann Boleyn was not his last wife – during his life he married 6 wives and two of them were killed by his soldiers.
II.) … was Queen of England and Wales for forty-five years. She had no husband and no children. Some people think she was the best queen of England because England was a strong country at that time and the Queen and Parliament worked well. She died in 1603 at the age of 70.
IV) … lived from 4 January 1643 to 31 March 1727. He was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. In his work he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, He showed that the motion of objects on Earth is governed by the same set of natural laws.
I.)…was born in 1926 and she became Queen in 1953. She is Queen of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Once a year she opens Parliament and once a week she talks to the Prime Minister. She is also the Head of the Church of England and the Head of the Commonwealth. There are 51 countries in the Commonwealth and she visits almost all of them.
VII.) … is a British writer best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Thanks to them she became the 12th richest woman in Great Britain. In October 2010, she was named “Most Influential Woman in Britain”.
3. Crossword
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1. Hamlet was written by …………………….. .
2. Henry VIII had six ………………….. .
3. Elizabeth I was Queen of England and …………………. .
4. An apple helped Isaac Newton to discover ………………………. .
5. John Lennon was born in ………………………. .
6. Princess Diana died in a car ……………………. .
7. The hero of J. K. Rowling´s books is called ………………………….. .
The hidden word is:
4. Write the names of:
· one British king:
· two British queens:
· one British princess:
· one British scientist:
· two British writers:
· one British singer
Solution:
1. King, queen, writer, singer, actor, scientist etc.
2. a-5-V, b-7-III, c-8-VIII, d-2-VI, e-3-II, f-1-IV, g-6-I, h-4-VII
3. Crossword
1 / S / H / A / K / E / S / P / E / A / R / E2 / W / I / V / E / S
3 / W / A / L / E / S
4 / G / R / A / V / I / T / A / T / I / O / N
5 / L / I / V / E / R / P / O / O / L
6 / C / R / A / S / H
7 / H / A / R / R / Y / P / O / T / T / E / R
Hidden word: history
4. Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, King Henry VIII, writers: William Shakespeare and J. K. Rowling, scientist: Isaac Newton, singer: John Lennon.