Diana - the People's Princess
Diana Spencer was born on the first of July 1961 in England. She had two older sisters and a younger brother. In childhood she liked games, swimming, running and dancing. She wanted to become a dancer. Besides she loved children very much and at the age of sixteen she worked in schools for very young children.
Diana became princess, when Prince Charles, the Queen's son, asked her to be his wife and they got married. They seemed to be a happy couple at first. They had two sons. They travelled a lot they worked a lot, they visited many countries together. But Diana was not quite happy because they did different things and Charles didn't understand her.
Why was Diana the most famous, the most beautiful, the most photographed woman in the world?
Why did she win the hearts of millions and millions of people in many countries? Why did so many people come to London to remember her when she died? Why did the car accident which took her life, become such a total shock to crowds of people? Why did people feel the need to be in London at the funeral?
Why did the tears and love at the funeral move the world?
The answer is so simple. Matthew Wall, a student at St. Michael's College in Burlington said: "She was such a lovely lady. She did so much for those people less fortunate that herself".
She was a kind woman. Hundreds of people talked about Diana's kindnesses. She liked ordinary people, though she was rich and had many rich friends. Wherever she was, she was always ready to lend a hand. She was devoted to the sick and the poor. She visited hospitals for people with AIDS and for lepers and wasn't afraid to touch them, talk to them, listen to them.
She worked on children's charities, and had teamed up with Hillary Clinton in an effort to ban landmines. And it's not only money, that she wanted to give people. She wanted to give them a part of her soul, to make them happy because she was unhappy herself. She wanted to give them love, because she needed love herself.
Rock stars (Sting, Elton John), pop singer George Michael, film stars and producers (Tom Hanks, Steven Spilberg, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise) and other famous people were among her friends. But she had more friends among ordinary people.
Diana was seen many times in floods of tears, because of the pressures of her loveless 15-year marriage. It is not a secret that Diana was hounded and humiliated to the point of mental breakdown and was able to pull through only because she knew she had the love of the people to buoy her in her darkest hours.
She was, indeed, the People's Princess.
Ответь на вопросы:
1. How many brothers and sisters did Diana have?
2. What did Diana like in childhood?
3. When did Diana become princess?
4. Why did Diana become world-famous?
5. Why did people love Diana?
6. Who was among her friends?
7. Why was she the People's Princess?
Найди в тексте следующие выражения:
1) Она завоевала сердца миллионов людей.
2) Стать большим потрясением для множества людей.
3) Чувствовать необходимость приехать в Лондон.
4) Быть готовым помочь людям.
5) Она любила простых людей.
6) Она посвящать себя больным и бедным.
7) Она занималась детской благотворительностью.
8) Любовь была нужна ей самой.
9) Диану часто унижали.
10) Нервный срыв.
Диана - народная принцесса
Диана Спенсер родилась 1 июля 1961 года в Сандринхэме в Лондоне. У нее было две старшие сестры и младший брат. В детстве она любила игры, плавание, бег, танцы. Она хотела стать танцовщицей. Кроме того, она очень любила детей, и в шестнадцать лет работала в детском саду.
Диана стала принцессой, когда принц Чарльз, сын королевы, попросил ее стать его женой, и они поженились. В начале они, казалось, были счастливой парой. У них было двое сыновей. Они много путешествовали, работали, посещали вместе многие страны. Но Диана была не совсем счастлива, т. к. они занимались разными вещами. Чарльз не понимал ее.
Почему Диана была самой известной, самой красивой, наиболее часто фотографируемой женщиной в мире?
Почему она завоевала сердца миллионов и миллионов людей в разных странах? Почему так много людей приехало в Лондон почтить ее память, когда она погибла? Почему автокатастрофа, которая унесла ее жизнь, стала большим потрясением для множества людей? Почему люди почувствовали необходимость приехать в Лондон на похороны принцессы?
Почему слезы и любовь во время похорон потрясли мир?
Ответ очень прост. Метью Уолл, студент колледжа св. Майкла в Берлингтоне, сказал: "Она была такой прекрасной женщиной. Она так много делала для тех, кто был менее удачлив, чем она".
Она была внимательной женщиной. Сотни людей отмечали доброту Дианы. Она любила простых людей, хотя была богата и имела богатых друзей. Где бы она ни была, она всегда была готова помочь людям. Она любила больных и бедных, посещала больницы для больных СПИДом и прокаженных, не боялась дотрагиваться до них, разговаривала с ними, слушала их.
Она занималась благотворительностью и объединилась с Хиллари Клинтон в попытке запретить фугасы. Она хотела помогать людям не только деньгами, но отдавать им частицу своей души, делать их счастливыми, так как сама она была несчастна. Она хотела дарить им любовь, потому что любовь была нужна и ей самой.
Рок-звезды (Стинг, Элтон Джон), популярный певец Джордж Майкл, звезды кино и режиссеры (Том Хэнке, Стивен Спилберг, Никель Кидман, Том Круз) и другие знаменитости были ее друзьями. Но еще больше друзей у нее было среди обыкновенных людей.
Диану часто можно было видеть в слезах, т. к. 15-летний брак без любви оказал воздействие на ее психику. Не секрет, что Диану преследовали и унижали до такой степени, что у нее произошел нервный срыв, и она смогла справиться с этим только благодаря тому, что знала, что в самые тяжелые моменты ее поддерживала любовь народа.
Действительно, Диана была народной принцессой.
Questions:
Vocabulary:
to ban — запретить
landmine — фугас
to need smth. — нуждаться в чем-либо
producer — режиссер, постановщик
a flood of tears — поток слез
to buoy — поддерживать, поднимать (настроение)
to hound — преследовать
to humiliate — унижать
leper — больной проказой
to work on charities — заниматься благотворительностью
soul — душа
Learning by heart
Some people have good memories, and can easily learn quite long poems by heart. But they often forget them almost as quickly as they learn them. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over, but when they do know them they don't forget them.
Charles Dickens, the famous English author, said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. Many of the great men of the world have had wonderful memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and some children who live abroad with their parents seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school it is not so easy to learn a second language, because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well.
The best way for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind with something which we know already, or which we easily remember because we have a picture of it in our mind. That is why it is better to learn words in sentences, not by themselves; or to see, or do, or feel what a word means when we first use it.
The human mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photograph with a camera, there is much to do before the photograph is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way, there is much work to be done before we can make a picture remain for ever in the mind.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
A. Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
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.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in a book called 'Study in Scarlet'. He became famous in 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', first published in the 'Strand Magazine'. After that came a whole series of books about him: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and many others. Many thousands of the Sherlock Holmes books are still sold every year.
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 Southsea near Portsmouth, 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.
And what sort of man is Sherlock Holmes? We learn a lot about him from the stories in which he appears. He has a thin face and intelligent eyes. He speaks when he has something to say. He smokes a pipe (he has a collection of them). He plays the violin. He lives at 221 'B' Baker Street in London.
If you go to London, you will not be able to find 221 'B' Baker Street. But instead, you can go to a pub called "The Sherlock Holmes" in Northumberland Street (near Trafalgar Square). In that pub there is a room like Sherlock Holmes's room at 221 'B' Baker Street, as described in Conan Doyle's stories. There is also the stuffed head of a hound. It is said to be the original 'hound of the Baskervilies'!
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.
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