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Big break:
Met Paul McCartney’s daughter
Stella at Art School
First film:
Stella’s Birthday Party
Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 18
th
December 1946.
His father was a computer technician and his mother was a concert pianist. The
family was well-off but family life was not very easy. He was a very naughty child
(he once covered the neighbor’s windows with peanut butter) and watched TV all
the time.
He learned about photography and film-making at his local boy scout
troop. He produced and directed about 20 short films before he was 20. Spielberg
applied to film school but his school marks weren’t good enough, so he studied
English at California State University. But his interest in the cinema never stopped
and most of the time he studied the history of film-making.
After he finished university, Spielberg went to California. His big break
came when he met Sidney Sheinberg, the head of TV films at Universal Studios.
Sheinberg gave Spielberg a contract to direct TV programmes and films. Spielberg
worked on many different programmes, including an episode of Columbo. He
made his first cinema film the following year when he wrote and directed Duel, a
brilliant film about a deadly race between a car and a truck.
Task I. Answer the following questions:
1. Where and when was Steven Spielberg born?
2. What family was Steven born to?
3. What can you say about the family life of the Spielberg’s?
4. What did Steven learn about at his local boy scout troop?
5. How many short films did he produce before he was 20?
6. What was his interest?
7. When did his big break come?
8. When did he make his first cinema film?
9. What famous films directed by Steven Spielberg do you know?
Task II. Retell the text in 10–15 sentences.
Text. JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME
Jean-Claude van Damme is a Belgian film actor. When he was a child, he
took martial arts classes and Ballet lessons. When he was a teenager, he won the
European Professional Karate Association middleweight championship. A Paris
ballet company offered him a job as a professional dancer. He decided he wanted
to work in films so he didn’t take the job. Instead, he went to the USA. In 1981, at
the age of 21, he moved to Hollywood. He took English lessons and delivered
pizzas to make money. One night, he met a film producer outside a restaurant.
“Hello, I’m Jean-Claude van Damme”, he said, “I’m an actor and a martial arts
champion”.
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The producer didn’t believe him, so van Damme showed him a karate
kickcentimetres from his face. The producer was shocked, but also very impres-
sed. He arranged to meet van Damme the next day. The following year, van
Damme appeared in Kick Boxer, the first of several action movies.
Now he earns about $8 million for every film he makes. At the moment,
he’s making a film called Legionnaire, about a Belgian playboy who gets involved
with Mafia.
Task I. Answer the following questions:
1. What can you say about the early life of Jean-Claude van Damme?
2. What did he study being a child and a teenager?
3. When did he move to Hollywood?
4. How did he make money?
5. How much does he earn now?
6. What film roles of Jean-Claude van Damme do you know?
Task II. Share your impressions with your fellow-student about
Jean-
Claude van Damme as an actor.
Text. THE LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
The American writer Edgar Allan Poe is probably better known outside
the United States today than any other American writer. There was something
about his poems and especially his short stories which interested people all over
the world. Some of them were people whose whole way of living was completely
different from his own.
But there is no doubt that Poe used his own experiences in writing his
own stories. This does not, however, mean that Poe was the man in his stories.
Who was he, then? Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in January of
1809. His mother and father were actors. They moved around in the eastern part of
the United States, traveling from city to city, acting in plays which no one
remembers today. They had no real home; only hotel rooms.
One day, when Poe was only nine months old, his father went away and
was never seen again. No one knows why. Mrs. Poe was left with two small
children and a third one still unborn. And Poe was only two years old when his
mother died and he and his brother and baby sister were left alone in the world.
This happened in Richmond, in the state of Virginia. A man named John
Allan took Poe into his home in Richmond. But Mr. Allan never adopted Poe; that
is to say, he never made Poe his son by law. And Mr. Allan never took Poe into his
heart, either. This was the cause of many of Poe’s troubles as he grew older.
However, Mrs. Allan didn’t have any children her own, and she wanted a child
very much. So she loved Poe more than was good for him. This, too, probably
caused him trouble as the years passed.
Mr. Allan did, however, provide young Poe with a good education. Poe
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went to good schools from the time he was four years old until he was seventeen.
When Poe was seventeen he arrived at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Poe was a young man; and he was living and studying in the company of
other young men. He did the things they did. One of the things they did was
gamble; they played games with cards and the winner took money from the josser.
That is, from all losers except Poe, for Poe had no money. And he often lost. The
result was that Poe owed still more money.
Another one of the things these young university students did was drink.
In English, when we use the word drink we usually tell what the person is
drinking: water, milk, Coca Cola. But when we say, “He drinks,” without telling
what the person drinks, we mean that he drinks things like wine and gin and
whiskey, things that have alcohol in them. These are the drinks which make a
person feel good for a little time – unless he drinks so much that he can’t remain
standing, or so much that he gets sick.
Well, Poe began to drink. Oh, we mustn’t think that Poe drank all the
time. If that had been true he could not have written anything. No, there were long
periods when Poe didn’t drink at all; but there were other periods when he felt he
couldn’t continue to exist without drinking. Thus, Poe created trouble for himself.
At the end of the school year Mr. Allan came to the university to get Poe.
Allan took Poe back to Richmond. He told Poe that he would give him no
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money to continue his studies at the university. Allan wanted Poe to work
for him, in his business. Poe, of course, was the kind of person who would be very
unhappy as a businessman. One day in March of 1827, after more angry words,
Poe ran away from home. He was just eighteen years old.
Facing the world alone, Poe’s chief purpose in life was to prove to Allan
and to the world his value as a person. Poe wanted to be famous more than
anything else. He wanted everybody to know him and talk about him. He felt, it
seems, that it was better if people said bad or untrue things about him than if they
did not notice him at all.
We know little about what happened to Poe in the next few years. But it’s
not important for us to know day by day, month by month, exactly what Poe was
doing. We do
know that he was writing.
Task I. Answer the following questions.
1. What were Poe’s father and mother like?
2. Why did Poe go to live with Mr. and Mrs. John Allan?
3. What did Poe do at the University of Virginia that made Mr. Allan angry?
4. Why did Poe run away from home?
5. What was Poe’s chief purpose in life after he left his home with Mr.
and Mrs. Allan?
6. Have you ever read Poe’s horror stories?
Task II. Divide the text into logical parts. Entitle and retell each of them.
Text. OLES HONCHAR
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(1918–1995)
Oles Honchar was born in 1918 in the village of Sukhe, Kobeliaky district,
Poltava region. One of the most prominent Ukrainian writers of the postwar period, a
full member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1978, a Second World
War veteran he has been publishing since 1938.
In 1938 Oles Honchar entered Kharkiv State University. He was at war
from June 1941 along with the other students-volunteers. He was wounded twice
and was rewarded with medals and decorations. In 1946 Honchar graduated from
Dnipropetrovsk University.
Oles Honchar gained prominence with the novel-trilogy “Praporonostsi”
(“The Standard Bearers”) published in 1946–1948. This novel is about the Red
Army in World War II, about heroism of soldiers, their courage and grandeur. The
novel was translated into English in 1948.
In 1950-s the short-story collections and the novels “Tavriia”, “Perekop”
were published.
His other famous works are: “Liudyna and Zbroia” (“Man and Arms”,
1960), “Tronka” (“The Sheep’s Bell”, 1963), “Sobor” (“The Cathedral”, 1968), “Tsyklon”
(“The Cyclone”, 1970), “Bereh Liubovi” (“The Shore of Love”, 1976), “Tvoia
Zoria” (“Your Down”, 1980) and three collections of literary Articles (1972, 1978, 1980).
The novel “Sobor” was officially censured and subsequently removed
from circulation. And only at the end of 1980-s it came back to the reader and
gained a wide audience.
Oles Honchar’s works have been republishd many times and translated
into over 40 languages. They have been the subject of a large body of Soviet
literary criticism.
Task I. Answer the following questions:
1. When and where was Oles Honchar born?
2. What medals and decorations was Oles Honchar rewarded and why?
3. What famous novel-trilogy brought his prominence?
4. What other works by Oles Honchar do you know?
5. Why was the novel “Sobor” removed from circulation?
Task II. Practice back translation. Translate the key sentences of the
text into Ukrainian (8–10 sentences) into the written form, and them translate
them orally into English again.
Text. VASYL SIMONENKO
(1935–1963)
Vasyl Simonenko is one of the greatest and most popular Ukrainian poets.
He began to write his poems when he was studying at Kyiv University. It was in
the middle of 1950, but Vasyl didn’t hurry to publish them. So his first book of
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poems “Silence and Thunder” appeared in 1962, and this was a great period of the
Ukrainian poetry revival. We admire the great world of Simonenko’s poetry as a
whole, and each of us finds some special lines for himself which open Simonenko’s great
and generous heart for us, his sympathy and respect for the Ukrainian people. I
hope no one is challenging the view that he occupies an outstanding place in
Ukrainian literature and culture. His first book of poetry proved the fact that the
new name which was worth attention of contemporaries appeared.
Vasyl Simonenko was born in 1935 in the village of Biyevtsi in Poltava
region. In 1952 he left a secondary school and entered Kyiv University at the
department of journalism. His father died when Vasyl was a little boy and his life
was rather hard. Those were the years of sufferings, the most difficult years of his
life. Later he described his hard life and poverty in his poems.
Vasyl Simonenko is not only a great poet, he is a perfect man combining
brilliant talent and civil courage and moral integrity. His name is associated with
love for his Motherland, native language and the best in our life.
His individual style of writing attracts attention of many readers, because
his poetry differs from the poetry of other Ukrainian poets due to his own attitude
to the events surrounding him. His poetry created a new type of poetry – a poetry
of love for people and native land.
Hundreds of new concepts had appeared in our language in the years that
passed since his death, but not a single word of his poems became obsolete. The
old forms of life went to the past, but everything written by Simonenko continues
to live. His poem “The Shore of Expectations” gained a wide audience.
Vasyl Simonenko died in 1963, but his feelings and views still correspond
to the views and feelings of Ukrainian people.
Whatever Simonenko’s work we read we see portrayal of Ukrainian soul,
the life of the Ukrainian people in Ukraine.
Task I. Answer the following questions:
1. When did Vasil Simonenko begin to write his poems?
2. When did his first book of poems appear?
3. What place does he occupy in Ukrainian literature and culture?
4. What department of Kyiv University did he enter in 1952?
5. What new type of poetry did he create?
6. What is his name associated with?
Task II. Practice making summary of the text.
Past Indefinite and Past Continuous tenses:
Past Indefinite Past Continuous
I | we| you| he| she |it |they worked
(wrote)
I |he| she |it was working
We| you |they were working
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Did I | we| you | he| she |it |they work
(write)?
I | we| you| he| she |it |they did not work
(write)
Was I |he| she |it working?
Were we| you |they working?
I |he| she |it was not working
We| you |they were not working
Past Indefinite Past Continuous
1. Вживається для вираження одно-
разової або постійної дії в минулому:
Last night I slept very well.
1. Вживається для вираження дії, що три-
вала в певний момент у минулому:
When I came back home my sister was
sleeping.
Ex. 1. How many of the sentence beginnings on the left can you
answer about your own life? Answer the ones you can.
Ex. 2. Complete these sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past
simple: clean die enjoy finish happen live open play rain smoke start stay want
Example: Yesterday evening I watched television.
1. I ... my teeth three times yesterday.
2. Bernard ... 20 cigarettes yesterday evening.
3. The concert last night ... at 7
30
and ... at 10 o’clock.
4. The accident ... last Sunday afternoon.
5. When I was a child, I ... to be a doctor.
6. Mozart ... from 1756 to 1791.
7. We ... our holiday last
8. Today the weather is nice, but yesterday it ... .
9. It was hot in the room, so I ... the window.
10. The weather was good yesterday afternoon, so we ... tennis.
11. William Shakespeare ... in 1616.
Ex. 3. Write the past of these verbs:
1) get got_____ 6) leave ____ 11) buy _______ 16) put ______
2) eat ________ 7) see _____ 12) know ______ 17) tell ______
3) pay _______ 8) go ______ 13) stand ______ 18) lose ______
4) make ______ 9) hear _____ 14) take _______ 19) think _____
5) give ______ 10) find ____ 15) do ________ 20) speak ____
Ex. 4. Write sentences about the past (yesterday / last week) etc.
Example: He always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by car.
1. They always get up early. This morning they __________________ .
2. Bill often loses his keys. He___________________________ last
Saturday.
3. I write a letter to Jane every week. Last week __________________ .
4. She meets her friends every evening. She _______________
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yesterday evening.
5. I usually read two newspapers every day. ______________________
yesterday.
6. They come to my house every Friday. Last Friday _______________.
7. We usually go to the cinema on Sunday. _____________________
last Sunday.
8. Tom always has a shower in the morning. ___________________ this
morning.
9. They buy a new car every year. Last year ______________________.
10. I eat an orange every day. Yesterday__________________________.
11. We usually do our shopping on Monday. ____________ last Monday.
12. Ann often takes photographs. Last weekend ___________________ .
13. We leave home at 8.30 every morning. _____________ this morning.
Ex. 5. Write sentences about yourself. What did you do yesterday or
what happened yesterday?
Ex. 6. Complete these sentences with the verb in the negative.
Example: I saw John but didn’t see Mary.
1. They worked on Monday but they __________________ on Tuesday.
2. We went to the shop but we _______________________ to the bank.
3. She had a pen but she _____________________________any paper.
4. Jack did French at school but he ______________________ German.
Ex. 7. You are asking somebody questions. Write questions with Did …?
Example: I watched TV last night. And you? Did you watch TV last night?
1. I enjoyed the party. And you ? _____________you_______________?
2. I had a good holiday. And you? ______________________________?
3. I got up early this morning. And you? _________________________?
4. I slept well last night. And you? ______________________________
Ex. 8. What did you do yesterday? (Your sentence can be positive or
negative).
Example: (watch TV) I watched TV yesterday. (or I didn’t watch TV
yesterday.)
1) (get up before 7
30
) I _________________________________________
2) (have a shower) I___________________________________________
3) (buy a magazine) __________________________________________
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4) (speak English) ____________________________________________
5) (do an examination) ________________________________________
6) (eat meat)_________________________________________________
7) (go to bed before 10
30
) ______________________________________
Ex. 9. Write questions.
Example: I saw a film. (good?) Was it good_______________
1. I met some people. (friendly?)_______________________
2. I did an examination. (difficult?)_______________________
3. I bought some boots. (expensive?)_____________________
4. I went to a museum. (interesting?)_____________________
Ex. 10. Write questions with Who/ What/How/ Why?
Example: I met somebody. Who ________________________________
1. Harry arrived. What time ____________Harry____________________
2. I saw somebody. Who _______________you_____________________
3. They wanted something. What ________________________________
4. The meeting finished. What time ______________________________
5. Pat went home early. Why ___________________________________
6. We had dinner. What _______________________________ for dinner
7. It cost a lot of money. How much ______________________________
Ex. 11. Put in was/wasn’t/were/weren’t.
Example: We didn’t like our hotel room. It was very small and it wasn’t
very clean.
1. Kate got married when she_____ 24 years old.
2. I phoned you yesterday evening but you ______ at home. Where _____ you?
3. George ________at work last week because he _______ ill. He’s better now.
4. The shops_________open yesterday because it ______a public holiday.
5. ___________you at home at 9.30?’ ‘No, I _______________ at work.’
Ex. 12. Write questions. Use was/were – ing.
Example: (what/Tim/do/ when you saw him?) What was Tim doing
when you saw him ?
1. (what/ you/ do/ at Il o’clock?)_________________________________
2. (what/ she/ wear/ yesterday?)__________________________________
3. (it/ rain/ when you went out___________________________________
4. (where/ you/ live/ in 1981?)___________________________________
Ex. 13. Put the verb into the past continuous (I was doing) or past
simple (I did).
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Example: When we went (go) out, it was raining (rain).
1. I wasn’t hungry last night. I (not/ eat) anything.
2. (you/watch) television when I (phone) you?
3. Jane wasn’t home when I went to see her. She _______________
(work).
4. I_________ (get) up early this morning. I____________ (wash),
______________ (dress) and then I _________________ (have) breakfast.
5. The postman______________ (come) while I ____________ (have)
breakfast.
6. We ___________________ (meet) Joan at the party. She__________
____________ (wear) a red dress.
7. The boys________________ (break) a window when they_________
___________ (play) football.
Ex. 14. Fill in prepositions or adverbs:
А. We will tell you … a little English schoolboy, John Dale … name. He
lives … his mother, father, two sisters and a brother. Mrs. Dale, John’s mother, has
much to do … home. She keeps house. She looks … her children. She brings them …
very well. John’s sister Mary is the eldest … all the children. John and his brother
Henry are of the same age, they are twins. John looks … his grandfather and is
named … him. He and his brother attend school, they go … school every morning.
Does John go … … sports? Yes, he does. He likes to play football most … all.
B. The last day … March was quite a usual day. Some people went …
work, others went … a walk. Children ran … school or played their games. A child
was born … a large family. It was a boy, and his parents called him John. When
the child was three, his mother was forty years old. Many years ago she met
Michael Casside … Dublin where he was looking … a job. Soon they fell … love …
one another and married. Michael Casside, Johnny’s father, was a very clever man.
He had not any regular education but he was very fond … books and spent all his
free time reading one book … another, and even managed to learn Latin. The
neighbours … Michael Casside thought that he was a great scholar, though he
worked … a clerk … a little office.
C. … the letter Jean wrote that Harold and she would be married … the
5
th
… July and they intended to go … Scotland … their wedding-trip. The wedding
took place this morning; the bride looked very nice … her hair. The bridgegroom
walked with his mother and one … his friends acted … best man while the four
bridesmaids accompanied the bride. … the ceremony the newly-married couple
received the congratulations … their friends.
Ex. 15. Translate into English:
A. 1. Скажіть, як вас звуть? 2. Хто ви за фахом? – Я інженер. 3. Хто
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ви за фахом, містер Браун. – Я юрист. 4. Містер Кук – директор фірми. 5. Я –
економіст. Я працюю на взуттєвій фабриці. 6. Моя дружина – домогос-
подарка. 7. Мої батьки – пенсіонери. 8. Наталка – продавець. Вона працює у
магазині одягу на нашій вулиці. 9. Хохлов гарний лікар? – Так, він дуже
гарний стоматолог. Він працює у кращій лікарні міста. 10. Ким
ти хочеш
бути? – Я ще не знаю. Мені подобається історія, фізика, англійська мова.
Батько говорить, що я повинен стати фізиком. Я хочу вступити до університету.
11. Іваненко – відомий в нашій країні архітектор. Він будує чудові будинки.
В. – Ви знаєте, де живе містер Сміт?
− Я знаю, що він живе на
вулиці Вікторії, але я забув номер будинку.
− Ви знайомі з місіс Сміт?
− Так, я бачив її декілька разів. Вона мало де буває; турботи про
дітей займають весь її час.
− Скільки в неї дітей?
− П’ятеро: два хлопчики, Джон і Віллі, і три дівчинки, Мері, Бетсі
і Дженні
.
− Джон старший?
− Так. Йому 15 років.
− А скільки років Віллі?
− Десять. Його сестра Мері старша за нього.
− Дженні наймолодша?
− Так, вона ще маленька, їй не більше двох років.
− Сміти дуже приємні люди, чи не так?
− Так, дуже. Містер Сміт – чудовий батько, а місіс
Сміт – добра
любляча мати. Діти дуже люблять батьків.
− Ви давно знайомі з ними?
− Чоловіка я знаю вже давно, а з його дружиною я познайомився,
коли вони приїхали у Норфолк.
− Вони жили за кордоном протягом певного часу?
− Так, дві молодші дочки народилися за кордоном.
− Батьки місіс Сміт
живуть в цьому ж місті?
− Вони живуть на тій же вулиці, що й їхній зять.
Ex. 16. Put questions to the text:
AGATHA CHTISTIE
Agatha Chtistie was born in 1890 in Torquay, England. She was educated
by her mother at home and she also went to school in Paris. In 1914 married
Archibald Christie. During the First World War, she worked in a hospital and
began to write detective stories. In 1920 “Mysterious Affair at Styles” was
published. This met with immediate success, but it was her seventh novel “The