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Look at the pictures.
Ask and answer as in the example.
Agatha Christie
(1890-1976)
British writer
Diego Velazquez
(1599-1660)
Spanish painter
In English, we read the
years as two sets of two
digit numbers
1561 = fifteen sixty-one
1807 = eighteen oh
seven
1972 = nineteen
seventy-two
BUT
2009 two thousand
and nine
Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)
Italian composer
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James Joyce
(1882-1941) Irish writer
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
British playwright
Anna Pavlova
(1881-1931)
Russian ballerina
A: Who was Anna
Pavlova?
B: A famous Russian
ballerina
A: When was she born?
B: In 1881.
A: When did she die?
B: In 1931.​

1. Апрель 1564/April 1564

2. Лондон/London

3. Из Флориды, США/Florida, United States

4. Agatha Christie в 1924, James Chase и Mark Twain 1939

5. Willian Shakespeare was a actor, Mark Twain was a Sailor, Jack London was a Sailor, James Chase was a bookseller, Jack London was a newspaper seller

6. 68 novels

7. Dreamed of becoming a pirate

8. Mark Twain was the greatest American humorist, W. Shakespeare was the greatest English writer, A. Christie was the greatest English writer

9. William Shakespeare

10. A. Christie

11. Got her education in home

1) Mice don't catch cats. Cats catch mice.
2) The earth doesn't go round the moon. The earth goes round the sun.
3) The river Volga doesn't flow into the Black sea. The river Volga flows into the Caspian sea.
4) Patients don't look after nurses in hospitals. Nurses look after patients in hospitals.
5) Water doesn't boil at 50 degrees Centigrade. Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade
6) Indians don't live in Scotland. Indians live in America.
                                             (The Indians live in India).
7) Carpenters don't make things from metal. Carpenters make things from wood.