II. Listen to a part of the interview with a thirteen-year old writer, Sally Myers, and answer the questions below
1. What made Sally write the book?
2. What did Sally’s Dad think about the book?
3. How did Sally’s life change after publishing the book?
III. Let’s talk about tourism.
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I. 1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about.
MOTHER TERESA
Mother Teresa was a simple nun*. She never wanted to be famous, but everyone in the world knows who she is.
Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in what is now Macedonia*. She was the youngest of three children. Agnes’s father died when she was a child. Her mother made dresses to support the family. Agnes’s mother also liked to do charity work, such as visiting the sick. Agnes often went with her, and she enjoyed helping these people.
Even as a child, Agnes wanted to be a nun. When she was 18 years old, she joined a group of nuns in India. There, she chose the name Teresa. Then she went to Calcutta to work at St. Mary’s School, in a convent*. Sister Teresa worked there for 20 years and eventually became the principal.
One day in 1946 Sister Teresa was riding on a train to Darjeeling*. She looked out of the window and saw dirty children wearing rags and sleeping in doorways. Sick and dying people were lying on dirty streets. At that moment, she believed God sent her a message. She decided to go to work with the poor.
Two years later, Sister Teresa left the convent and opened a school for the kids from poor families. Though at the very beginning the school had no roof, no walls, and no chairs, later it became wellknown all around India. In 1948, Sister Teresa started her own group of nuns. They were called the Missionaries of Charity. The nuns lived in the slums* with people who were poor, dirty, and sick. It was hard work and the days were long. But many young nuns came from around the world to join Mother Teresa.
Later, she started homes for children without families. She also started clinics. Over the years, news of her work spread around the world. Many people sent her donations of money, others came to work with her. By 1990 the Missionaries of Charity were working in 400 centres around the world.
Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. But she always said her greatest reward was helping people. Her message to the world was: ‘We can do no great things — only small things with great love’.
1 *a nun [nʌn] монахиня
2 Macedonia [ ˌmæsəˈdəʊnɪə] странаМакедония
3 a convent [ˈkɒnv(ə)nt] монастырь
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4 Darjeeling [daːˈdʒiːlɪŋ] городДарджилинг
5 slums трущобы
2. The author writes about Mother Teresa’s family. Read aloud the extract which says about it.
3. Why did Mother Teresa decide to devote her life to people in need?
4. What did Mother Teresa do for people?
II. Listen to the interview and answer the questions below.
1. What does Jackie want to become?
2. Why has she chosen this profession?
3. Why is it important for students to do sport at school?
III. Let’s talk about accommodation.
18.
I. 1. Read the article and say in 2—3 sentences what it is about.
The most mystique* picture
Every hour about 1,500 people visit the Louvre Museum in Paris with the specific intention of seeing one particular painting: the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Most of these visitors look at the painting for about three minutes before they walk back to the tourist buses outside.
Leonardo loved the painting very much and people say that he took it everywhere with him. The painting was originally ordered by a rich businessman in Florence, who wanted a portrait of his wife, Lisa. Leonardo began the painting in 1503 and he finished it about three or four years later. The fact that Leonardo wanted to keep the painting himself, adds to the Mona Lisa’s mystique.
Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile has fascinated everyone who has ever seen the painting. In his ‘Lives of the Artists’, written just a few years after Leonardo’s death, Giorgio Vasari wrote, ‘While painting Mona Lisa Leonardo employed singers and musicians to keep her happy and so avoid the sadness that painters usually give to portraits. As a result, there was a smile that seemed divine2 rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find how alive and real it appeared.’
Modern art critics also emphasize how the portrait seems alive and real. ‘She is like a living person,’ writes art historian E.H. Gombrich, ‘She seems to change before our eyes. Even in photographs we can experience this strange effect. Sometimes she seems to be looking down on us, and sometimes we can detect sadness in her smile. All this sounds rather mysterious, and it is; that is so often the effect of a great work of art.’
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The Mona Lisa is certainly a masterpiece, a magnificent work of art, but it is also a part of modern popular culture. Her image appears on plates, Tshirts, mouse pads and in advertisements. Perhaps for this reason, officials at the Louvre Museum placed the painting in a specially built area in a room with other great 16th century Italian paintings. In this way, visitors have a better chance to appreciate the painting as a work of art rather than as a tourist attraction.
1 *mystique [mɪˈstiːk] таинственный
2 divine [dɪˈvaɪn] божественный
2. Why is Mona Lisa smiling? Read aloud the extract which says about it.
3. What makes the Mona Lisa so special?
4. Why isn’t the painting displayed in a separate room?
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