Интерактивная викторина по английскому языку для 8 класса на тему "Famous People"

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Quiz “The whole world knows them”

(after Unit 4)

Guess a famous Russian person.

You will see a description of a person sentence by sentence. The sooner you guess who it is, the more points you get.

He was born in Russia in 1828 into a noble family and fought in the Crimean War.

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At the age of 82 he left his home but soon became ill and died in a small railway station hotel.

A talented man, he wrote some of the world’s greatest novels. One of them is “Anna Karenina”

Leo Tolstoy

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She is a ballet dancer Russia is proud of. After Moscow School of Ballet she began working in the Bolshoi Theatre.

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She danced in “Swan Lake”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “Carmen” where she performed some of her best parts.

She is married to the famous Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin who has written music for her ballets.

Maya Plisetskaya

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She is the first woman professor in Russia and North Europe. She was born in Moscow in 1850.

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She was interested in mathematics. At the age of 11 she could do a lot of things that university students find difficult .

But she couldn’t complete her education in Russia because women couldn’t become a university student then. So she went to Europe and became a really famous scientist.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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He was a great Russian scientist. He was born in the city of Izhevsk in 1857.

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When he was 9, the boy fell ill and as a result he wasn’t able to hear during all his life. At the age of 16 he was sent to Moscow where he studied chemistry, mathematics and astronomy.

He was the first to create a model of a rocket that was able to fly to space.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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He was a Russian airplane test pilot. He was born in a small town near Nizhni Novgorod in 1904.

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He is famous for several ultra long flights. One of them was a 63-hour flight from Moscow to Vancouver, United States.

He died at the age of 34 when his plane crashed during a test flight.

Valery Chkalov

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Match the names of these famous British people

with the pictures

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1. Walter Scott

3. Thomas

Edison

4. Charles

2. Winston

Darwin

Churchill

1. Walter Scott

2. Winston Churchill

3. Thomas Edison

4. Charles Darwin

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Match the names of these famous people

with the countries they belong to

(There is ONE country you don’t need to use )

1) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2) Rembrandt

3) Nicholas Copernicus

4) Leonardo da Vinci

5) Napoleon Bonaparte

6) Confucius

• Poland
• China
• Austria
• Italy
• France
• Holland
• Greece

1-c 2-f 3-a 4-d 5-e 6-b

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Remember the facts of these famous people’s lives

Sir Isaak Newton was the first to build reflecting …

1. microscope

3. binoculars

4. spyglass

2. telescope

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Catherine the Great is buried in…

1. Peter and Paul Cathedral (St Petersburg)

3. Archangel Cathedral (Moscow)

4. Saint Isaac’s Cathedral (St Petersburg)

2. Westminster Abbey (London)

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Alexander Griboedov entered Moscow University at the age of…

1. eight

3. ten

4. eleven

2. nine

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Mikhail Lomonosov discovered the atmosphere on…

1. Mars

3. Saturn

4. Venus

2. Jupiter

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Vasco da Gamma who was the first to make a voyage from Europe to India was…

1. Italian

3. Spanish

4. Dutch

2. Portuguese

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American writer and scientist Benjamin Franklin belonged to the Age of…

1. Enlightenment

3. Renaissance

4. Romantics

2. Classicism

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Admiral Nelson became a national hero winning several battles during the war with…

1. Spain

3. France

4. Portugal

2. Germany

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Queen Elisabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in…

1. 2011

3. 2013

4. 2014

2. 2012

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Steve Jobs’ favourite music band was…

1. the Beatles

3. the Rolling Stones

2. Queen

4. the Doors

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One of the most unpopular American presidents was…

3. Harry Truman

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. John Kennedy

4. George Washington

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