12.70M
Category: culturologyculturology

Famous people

1.

1
3
2
8
7
4
10
9
13
6
5
12
11
16
14
15
17

2.

18
19
22
20
21
23
27
24
28
25
26
31
30
32
33

3.

Sir Alexander Fleming
Elton John
Russell Crowe
Jack London
Charles Darwin
Ken Kesey
John Rockefeller
Tim Roth
Colin Firth
Peter Cosgrove
Stephen King
Benjamin Franklin
Justin Drew Bieber
Anthony Hopkins
Julian Barnes
John Lennon
Céline Dion
Chad Kroeger
Sir Winston Churchill
Edwin Hubble
David Johnston
James Prescott Joule
Victoria
John Fowles
Henry Ford
James McAvoy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Naomi Ellen Watts
Sean Connery
Ozzy Osbourne
Heathcliff (Heath) Ledger
Margaret Thatcher

4.

Sir Winston Churchill
was a British statesman (политический
деятель), army officer, and writer.
He served as Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from
1951 to 1955

5.

Naomi Watts
is an English actress and film producer.
Among her films:
The Ring (2002), King Kong (2005), Diana (2013), Birdman (2014)
and others.

6.

James Prescott Joule
was an English physicist, mathematician.
Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship
to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of
energy, which led to the development of the first law of
thermodynamics

7.

Heathcliff Ledger
was an Australian actor and director.
Among his films:
10 Things I Hate About You (1999),The Patriot (2000), A
Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Lords of
Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005),The Dark
Knight (2008)

8.

John Rockefeller
was an American oil industry business
magnate and philanthropist.Widely
considered the wealthiest American of
all time

9.

Margaret Thatcher
was a British stateswoman who was Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th
century and the first woman to have been appointed.

10.

Ozzy Osbourne
is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to
prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the
heavy metal band Black Sabbath

11.

James McAvoy
is a Scottish actor.
Among his films:
X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in X-Men: Days of Future
Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Split (2016), Filth and
others.

12.

Queen Victoria
(24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until
her death.
At the height of the empire, a quarter of the world’s land surface was
ruled by Victoria. She was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. By the
end of her reign, Australia and Canada were dominions, South Africa
was soon to become a united nation, and large parts of Africa, the Far
East and Oceania were under British rule.

13.

Sean Connery
is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has
won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and
three Golden Globes.
His films:
James Bond (2005), The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen (2013), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
(1991), Hunt for Red October (1990), The
Untouchables (1987)…

14.

Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnes
(born 19 January 1946)
is an English writer.
Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of
an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984),
England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005).
In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres

15.

Colin Firth
is an English actor.
He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award,
two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as
well as the Volpi Cup.
Firth's most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his
2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a
performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide
best actor awards.

16.

Elton John
is an English singer, pianist, and composer.
sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the bestselling music artists in the world. He has more than fifty Top 40
hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums.
His tribute single, re-penned in dedication to the late Princess
Diana, "Candle in the Wind 1997" sold over 33 million copies
worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK
and US singles charts.

17.

Henry Ford
was an American captain of industry and a business magnate,
the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of
the development of the assembly line technique of mass
production.

18.

Justin Bieber
a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music
Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he
has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the
song "Where Are Ü Now" at the 2016 ceremony. He has been
listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most
powerful celebrities in the world in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

19.

John Fowles
(1926 –2005)
was an English novelist of international
stature, critically positioned between
modernism and postmodernism.
His books:
The Collector, a Maggot, the Magus, The Ebony
Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa etc.

20.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)
was a British writer best known for his
detective fiction featuring the character
Sherlock Holmes.

21.

Chad Kroeger
is a Canadian musician and producer, best
known as the lead vocalist and guitarist
for the Canadian rock band Nickelback

22.

John Lennon
was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and
activist who co-founded the Beatles.

23.

Tim Roth
is an English actor and director.
Among his films are Captives (1994), Little Odessa (1994),
Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Gridlock'd (1997), Planet
of the Apes (2001), Invincible (2001), Funny Games (2007),
The Incredible Hulk (2008).
He also starred as Cal Lightman on the Fox series Lie to
Me (2009—2011).

24.

Stephen King
(born September 21, 1947)
is an American author of horror, supernatural
fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

25.

David Lloyd Johnston
(born June 28, 1941)
is a Canadian academic, author, statesman and
Governor General of Canada, the 28th since
Canadian Confederation.

26.

Ken Kesey
was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.
He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of
the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
His most notable work is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

27.

Céline Dion
is a Canadian singer and businesswoman.
she is regarded as one of pop music's most influential
voices. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including
Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
Dion remains the best-selling Canadian artist and one of
the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over
200 million copies worldwide

28.

Sir Alexander Fleming
was a Scottish physician, biologist, pharmacologist
and botanist.
His best-known discovery is the world's first
antibiotic substance Penicillin G.

29.

Russell Crowe
is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand
citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to
international attention for his role in the 2000 historical epic
film Gladiator.

30.

Peter Cosgrove
is a retired senior Australian Army officer
who is the 26th and current GovernorGeneral of Australia, in office since 2014.

31.

Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Franklin was a renowned polymath (эрудит) and a leading
author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist,
inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

32.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins
is a Welsh film, stage, and television actor.
Considered to be one of the greatest living actors,
Hopkins is well known for his portrayal of
Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for
which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor,
its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon.
Other notable films include The Mask of Zorro,
Meet Joe Black, The Elephant Man etc.

33.

Charles Robert Darwin
was an English naturalist, geologist and
biologist, best known for his
contributions to the science of
evolution

34.

John Griffith "Jack" London
was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide
celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including
science fiction.

35.

Edwin Hubble
(November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)
was an American astronomer.
He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic
astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one
of the most important astronomers of all time.

36.

Teacher`s notes
Sir Alexander Fleming (25-br)
Elton John (13-br)
Russell Crowe (26-au)
Jack London (32- am)
Ken Kesey (23-am)
John Rockefeller (5-am)
Tim Roth (20-br)
Charles Darwin (31-br)
Colin Firth (12-br)
Peter Cosgrove (27-au)
Stephen King (21-am)
Benjamin Franklin (28-am)
Justin Bieber (15-c)
Anthony Hopkins (30-br)
Heathcliff (Heath) Ledger (4-au)
Céline Dion (24-c)
Edwin Hubble (33-am)
John Fowles (16-br)
Margaret Thatcher (6-br)
David Johnston (22-c)
Henry Ford (14-am)
Naomi Watts (2 -br)
Julian Barnes (11-br)
Chad Kroeger (18-c)
James Prescott Joule (3-br)
James McAvoy (8-br)
Sean Connery (10-br)
John Lennon (19-br)
Sir Winston Churchill (1-br)
Victoria (9-br)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (17-br)
Ozzy Osbourne (7-br)
English     Русский Rules