Телекоммуникационный проект по английскому языку «Знаменитые британцы».

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                                                                                                   Телекоммуникационный проект по английскому языку                                              «Знаменитые британцы».

     Encyclopedic Dictionary:

 British explorers and travellers

                                         Работу выполнили:

                                         Команда «Веселые Девчата»

                                         Руководитель:

                                         Килина Т.Н.             

                                               Thomas Avery

Thomas Avery - is a British explorer and author. He was born in England on the 17-th of December in 1975. When Thomas was seven years old, his mother gave him a book about the adventures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. As he later wrote in his book, he was captivated by Scott's heroic story and knew he wanted to go to Antarctica, and to the South Pole. Tom Avery's career began when he was 16 with a series of rock and ice climbs in Wales and Scotland. In 2002 Avery at age 25 became the youngest Briton ever to ski to the South Pole.  In early November 2002, beginning his 700-mile (1,100 km) expedition and on 28 December 2002 Avery's team completed the journey to the South Pole. They broke the South Pole speed record by using kites to power them across the ice, much like the modern sport of kitesurfing. In 2005 Avery recreated Robert Peary and Matthew Henson’s 1909 controversial expedition to the  North Pole. His goal of the expedition was to assess whether Peary has achieved what he claimed. Avery's party reached the Pole in 37 days, a faster time that any expedition had managed since 1909. They used the same equipment available to Peary and Henson for their 1909 expedition. Today Thomas lives with his wife Mary in London.  Avery's other interests include skiing, ocean sailing and golf. His ultimate ambitions are to ski in Alaska and sail around the world.

 Robert Falcon Scott 

Robert Falcon Scott, (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. On the first expedition, he discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. At a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. The news of Scott’s death became his iconic British hero. From a previously unassailable position, Scott became a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character. Commentators in the 21st century have on the whole regarded Scott more positively, emphasizing his personal bravery and stoicism while acknowledging his errors and, more recently, errors by his team members, but ascribing his expedition's fate primarily to misfortune.

                               Alexander Gordon Laing 

Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1793 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu. Laing believed he had found the source of the Niger and proposed to travel along the river to its delta. Joseph Banks, president of the Africa Association supported his project, hoping that the expedition would reveal the location of Timbuktu.Henry,3rd Earl Bathurst, then secretary for the colonies, instructed Captain Laing to undertake a journey, via Tripoli and Timbuktu, to further elucidate the hydrography of the Niger basin. Laing left England in February 1825, and at Tripoli on 14 July he married Emma Warrington, daughter of the British consul. Two days later, leaving his bride behind, he started to cross the Sahara, accompanied by a sheikh who was subsequently accused of planning his murder. Ghadames was reached, by an indirect route, in October 1825, and in December Laing reached the Tuat, where he was well received by one particular group of Tuareg. On 10 January 1826, he left Tuat and made for Timbuktu across the desert. Letters written in May and July told of his suffering from fever and the plundering of his caravan by another group of Tuareg. Laing describes being wounded in 24 places in the fighting. He joined another caravan and reached Timbuktu, thus becoming the first European to cross the Sahara from north to south. His letter dated from Timbuktu on 21 September announced his arrival in that city on the preceding 18 August, and the insecurity of his position owing to the hostility of the Fula chieftain Bello, then ruling the city. He added that he intended leaving Timbuktu. No further news was received from the explorer. From information pieced together later, it was ascertained that he left Timbuktu on the day he had planned and was murdered on or about the night of 26 September 1826.

                                              Benedict Allen

British explorer, traveller Benedict Allen, born March 1, 1960 in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire. His father Colin Allen, a test pilot brought exotic presents and so passed on to his son the sense that there was still an exciting world out there waiting to be explored. Allen's first studies were children hunting expedition in Lyme Regis. He took place in three scientific expeditions, which formed the basis of his dissertation. His first expedition, which became a catalyst for his passion for travel was to the volcano in Costa Rica. Next was an expedition to the forests of Brunei and the glacier in Iceland. After the third expedition Allen acknowledged the locals as the real experts. It was then that he abandoned scientific expeditions and decided to do their own research, taking lessons from the locals. He worked part time at a book stock to raise enough money for his journey, which took place in 1983. It was a transition from the mouth of the Orinoco to the mouth of the Amazon River. Now his research Benedict Allen filming for television channel BBC. Thus, his program "Lost Lake" to get high rankings on television.

                      Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes (b. 7 March 1944, Glasgow) - British explorer, the owner of a number of records for endurance, named in 1984 Guinness Book of Records as "the greatest of researchers living in the world ". English traveler; the owner of a number of records to survive in harsh conditions. The first person who visited and on the north and south poles on without the aid of aircraft, and the first person to walk across the entire Antarctic. In May 2009, at the age of sixty-five, climbed to the top of Everest. In 1992 Fiennes led an expedition that has found the lost city of Ubar in Oman. The following year he spent with nutritionist Dr. Mike Stroud, in an attempt to become the first who crossed Antarctica without any help. On the 95th day, they had to call for help, not to die of hunger and cold. They made a second attempt in 1996, but it ended in failure. In 2000, Fiennes alone went to the North Pole, and again did not succeed. It was only in 2003 and it he was able to achieve his goal.

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                Quiz: “Famous Britons”

1.

Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist. Mary Poppins was her first literary success  

2. This English mathematician was Charles Babbage. The first programmable computer was created by him. Due to his invaluable invention, Babbage is considered the Father of the computer.

3.

The author of this painting was John Constable. He was an English Romantic painter. He was known principally for his landscape paintings.  

4. This researcher was Selman Waksman. The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles. An antibiotic is an agent that either kills or inhibits the growth of a microorganism.

5. Keith H.S. Campbell, Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham, was a British biologist who was a member of the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset Lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.

6. A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

7. This English actress and singer was Keira Christina Knightley. In 2003 she played a leading women role in “Pirates of the Caribbean Sea: Curse of “Black pearl””. 

8. 

This English actor is Sir Roger George Moore. He is perhaps best known for playing British secret agent James Bond between 1973 and 1985.

9. Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, better known by the name of her first husband as Agatha Christie was an English writer. Is among the world's most famous authors of detective fiction and is one of the most published writers in the history of mankind (after the Bible and Shakespeare).

10. The father of science fiction is called Herbert Wells. Herbert George Wells was a historian and novelist. 

11. This was Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician  who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

12. The statue is in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones.

13. This was William Hogarth.  Marriage à-la-mode is a series of six pictures painted by the English painter. This moralistic warning shows the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money and satirizes patronage and aesthetics. .

14. The finest achievement of the Kelmscott Press “The Works of Geoffrey Chauce” was designed by William Morris. The textile designer, author and artist founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891. Morris published his own work as well as translations and reprints of mediaeval writing he believed should be read.     

15. The longest-serving and most successful person to manage Manchester United is Sir Alex Ferguson, who won 13 League titles, five FA Cups, four League Cups, 10 Community Shields, two UEFA Champions League titles, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup in his managerial reign of more than 26 years.

16. This British novelist ‘name was Joanne Kathleen Rowling. And title this book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.   

17. Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who suffers from a mild form of the neurological disorder developmental coordination disorder. The motor skill disorder sometimes gets so bad that he has trouble doing simple activities, such as writing or tying his own shoelaces.

18. James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematical physicist.     

19. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.

20. Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer and journalist is among the founders of the English novel. His famous novel is Robinson Crusoe.

21. Sir Charles Barry was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century with an architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.  

22. Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie- the Pooh and for various children's poems.

23. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist and university professor. He was best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”.

24. The Quarrymen are a British rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956. The Quarrymen played at parties and school dances. 

25. 

This English geographer and explorer was Richard Burton. He and John Speke was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika in 1858. His best-known achievements include travelling to Mecca and translation of “One Thousand and One Nights”.