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Unit 5
Outstanding People in our Country and in the Country of the Learning Language
Reading Practice
Andrei Sakharov
Arthur Conan Doyle
Benjamin Britten
Grammar Points
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Additional Texts
My Favourite Singer
Yuri Gagarin
Andrei Sakharov
(1921-1989)
There are many outstanding people in our country. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov is one of them.
He was born on the 21st of May in 1921. His parents were teachers. They paid a lot of attention to their sons education. He graduated from Moscow University in 1942. In 1947 he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Science. Later in 1953 he defended his Doctorate Thesis and became the member of the Academy of Sciences.
A. D. Sakharov was a physicist and he took an active part in developing the hydrogen bomb. He understood that any atomic and nuclear weapons should be banned. He respected men and fought for human rights in our country. He worked a lot. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
The life of A. Sakharov was difficult. In 1980 he was deprived of all his titles and he had to leave Moscow for Gorky. He worked there too. He devoted his life to humankind. He was a humanist and he fought for justice, peace, human rights. M. S. Gorbachev helped him to return to Moscow.
A. Sakharov was given back all his titles. A. D. Sakharov died in 1989. He was the representative of our best men. He did a lot and he foresaw a lot. He was an outstanding scientist and a public figure.
Our country remembers his name.
Active Words and Word Combinations
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defend a thesis for the degree of
hydrogen bomb
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Nobel Peace prize
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Exercises
1.Translate the following words and word combinations into English using the text Andrei Sakharov.
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Answer the following questions.
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1. What kind of outstanding people do you know in our country?
2. When and where was A. Sakharov born?
3. What kind of education had he?
4. Sakharov took an active part in developing the hydrogen bomb, didnt he?
5. When was he awarded the Nobel Peace prize?
6. Why did he live in Gorky?
7. Who helped A. D. Sakharov to return to Moscow?
8. Why do our people remember him?
Make up 7 questions of your own on the text.
Combine words into sentences and translate them into Russian.
1. There; outstanding; in; are; people; many; Russia.
2. He; human; fought; and; justice; rights; for.
3. Our; name; country; his; remembers.
4. Sakharov; an; took; in; active; developing; part; hydrogen; the; bomb.
5. The; Sakharov; of; was; difficult; life.
6. He; men; was; of; the; our; best; representative.
7. In; he; 1975; awarded; the; was; Nobel; prize; Peace.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(18591930)
Arthur Conan Doyle was a great writer. He was born in Scotland in the family of Irish. He was a doctor. In 1882 he moved from Scotland to England to set up a practice. His medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories.
Conan Doyle was one of the first, who started the fashion of detective story. Today the fashion goes on with the stories of other writers.
Conan Doyle created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in 1885. Six years later, when Conan Doyle wrote some stories about this detective, the name of Sherlock Holmes became a name that everybody knew. Holmes first appeared in a book called Study in Scarlet. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes made him famous all over the world.
Conan Doyle became popular because of his love for people. He died in 1930.
