ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13,
1899. He went to school and university there and in 1920 he started to work
with a British film company. In 1920 he also married Alma Revelle, his wife for
the next sixty years. They had one daughter.
From 1925 to 1939 he made several films in Britain,
including The 39 Steps and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
In 1939 he left Britain because he wanted to work in
Hollywood. He lived in Los Angeles for the rest of his life and made many of
his 53 films there. A lot of people in America and Europe saw his famous films
Psycho ( I960) and The birds(1963)
Queen Elizabett. II made Hitchcock 'Sir Alfred' in 1980.
Soon after that, in May 1980, he died in Los Angeles.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Charlie Chaplin was born in London in 1889. He first
appeared in music halls and then acted on the London stage. In 1910 he went to the USA with Fred Karno’s
company, but he didn't stay with Karno very long. In 1913 he started to work at
the Keystone Company in Hollywood. There
he made his first film, Making A Living, in 1914. In his second film, Kid Auto
Races at Venice (1914), he introduced the little tramp. This character made him
famous.
Chaplin got married several times. He met his last wife,
Oona O'Neill in 1942 and married her a year later. Chaplin was then 54 years old and Oona 18. He
left the USA in 1952 for political reasons and lived with his family in
Switzerland for the rest of his life. He died in 1977.
Lebrat's ' visit
Thursday, October 24th, 1996
Christian Lebrat, the French president of the MACROS Food
company, is visiting our town. He arrived yesterday and he is here to meet
Mr. Douglas, the manager of the MACROS
store in Oxham 4 Street. This is Mr. Lebrat's 'second
visit to Selton. He was here in 1991 when he opened the store. There are
sixty-five MAGROS stores in Europe - twenty in England, twelve in Germany,
fifteen in France and eighteen in Spam. Next year, Mr. Lebrat wants to open a
store in Rome, Italy, too. Mr. Lebrat can't stay in Selton for very long. He
has a busy. programme. He is flying to Madrid tomorrow morning to visit the
stores there.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Elvis Presley was born on January 8th, 1935, in East Tupelo,
Mississippi. His twin brother died at birth.
Elvis grew up in a poor home, but his parents, Vernon and Gladys
Presley, were kind and loving.
After he left school, Elvis worked in different jobs. He
worked in cinemas and supermarkets, and he worked as a lorry driver. This was
the job he liked most.
Two people helped Elvis in his career. One was Sam Phillips.
Sam had a record company called Sun Records.
He was the first person to realise that Elvis was a good singer. The
second person to help Elvis was Tom Parker. Tom became Elvis' manager in 1955
and he made him into a famous rock and roll star.
Elvis won a lot of gold discs in his life. He died on August
16th, 1977. Many people say that he died because he took too many drugs and
pills.
Longleat House
Longleat House is 140 kilometres west of London,between the
cities of Salisbury and Bath.The house of Lord Bath.It is about 400 years
old.Vititors can walk through and look at the beatiful rooms and they can see
the antique furniture in the rooms.There is also a Safari Park at Longleat
house Visitors can drive through the park and see many animals there.
Longleat house is open every day from 10 o'clock in the
morning to 6 o'clock in the evening.The Safari Park is open only in the summer.
Longleat House Londra'nın 140 kilometre batısında,Salisbury
ve Bath şehirlerinin arasındadır.Lord Bath'in evidir.Yaklaşık 400
yaşındadır.Ziyaretçiler içinden yürüyebilir ve güzel odalara bakabilirler ve
onlar odadaki antik eşyaları görebilirler.Ayrıca Longleat House'ta Safari Park
da bulunur.Ziyaretçiler parkın içinde sürüş yapabilir ve birkaç hayvanı orada
görebilirler.Longleat House hergün sabah 10'dan akşam 6'ya kadar açıktır.Safari
Park sadece yaz zamanı açıktır.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
The University of London is in Bloomsbury.It was founded in
1836.There are many other famous building in Bloomsbury.The British Museum,
which is near the university, is one of these buildings.There are also many
restaurants and coffee shops, where you can buy things to eat.The restaurans
are not always very cheap , but the coffee shops are excellent ofr the price.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York University is in Greenwich Village. Students can
get almost everything they need near the
university campus. There is a post office on 9* Street. There is a bank on
5& Avenue, and there are two on 8* Street. The restaurants and coffee shops
in Greenwhich Village are very popular.
JIM
Jim Chapman, a famous cameraman, is the new assistant
director of Video Sound, a large film company.It has fifty-two offices all over
the world.Mr. Chapman is the first American to work at the company's Paris
office in its thirty year history.Mr. Chapman is not married.He's got a
sister-Mary.She lives with her friend Paul in London.She goes to the Faculty of
Arts at the University ıf London.There are also
the Faculties of Scinece Engineering, Medicine and Music there.
KATE
My name is Catherine but I'm called Kate by my friends.I
live near Leeds, in the north-east of England,I'm a dental nurse.I work for a
young Australian dentist.He's very nice and he's a very good dentist, but I
don't like my job very much.
My sister is called Bianca.She's married with two children a
girl and a boy, and lives in a house near London, in a town called
Enfield.She's a teacher.She teaches in a big school in the north of London.She
likes her job very much.
My brother's name is
George.He doesn't have a job.He's unemployed.
THE GARSTON
FAMILY
Mr.
and Mrs. Garston live in a small village near London. They've got two dogs. Their names are Bruce and Spot.
The dogs eat meat, biscuits and special dog food. Mr. Garston buys their food
in London because the shops in their village don't sell dog food. The Garstons
5 have got neighbours, too, but they don't like Bruce and Spot because they've
got a cat. The postman doesn't like the dogs, either.
Mr.
Garston goes to London every day because he works there . He comes home at six.
The dogs always wait for him. They stand near the door and bark. They are happy
because they go for a long walk in the evening with Mr. Garston.
PLAZA
SHOPPING CENTRE
A SHOPPING EXPERIENCE WITHOUT EQUAL
To
begin with, think of the location. What other shopping centre can equal it?
Plaza Shopping is in the centre of Harlow, next to the South Coach station.
Easy
to reach by bus, train or car. It's on your daily route.
Free
parking. 3 floors with 35,000 square metres of space. Space for 12,000 cars. To
make access even easier, there are two independent ramps for entrances and
exits.
Plaza
Shopping exists to make life easier. There is no need to go into London for
shopping any longer. Opening hours are 10 am to 10 pm, Monday to Saturday. The
PICNIC department is open on Sundays, too and so is the car park. Come to Plaza
Shopping. You will find everything you want. Come and see!
SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco is in the State of California in the west of
the United States. It is near the Pacific Ocean. People think it is the capital
of California, but it isn't. First, people from Spain lived there. Today,
Austrians, Italians, Chinese and others live in the city with Americans.
The Chinese live in Chinatown. There are many Chinese
restaurants there. The houses, post boxes and telephones in the streets are
very interesting. This part of the town is exactly like China.
Fisherman's Wharf is another place , where tourists want to
go. You can find a table in a nice little restaurant near the sea there. You
can eat sea food and look at the Golden Gate Bridge. You can watch the ships
passing under it and the cars crossing it. The Golden Gate Bridge is the symbol
of San Francisco.
After you finish your meal, you can take a boat trip to
Alcatraz. Alcatraz was a famous prison between 1866 and 1920, but only tourists
go there now.
San Francisco is different from other American cities. It is
more European, The sun always shines there and there are a lot of things you
can do at night - you can go to the nightclubs, discos, restaurants, cinemas
and theatres. That's why a lot of young people want to live in San Francisco.
Derek Matthews wasn't a good student at school. He liked
horses so he wanted to be a jockey. Today, at 55, he Is very famous and has got
a riding school in Ascot, a few miles from London. He drives to Ascot three
days a week, visits his horses and rides them. He says he enjoys his days at
the riding school a lot.
ROLAND -EVI-DELIA
Roland Kohl is an engineer in Berlin, Germany. Roland is a
very active person. He is a good basketball player. He started the sport at the
age of eleven. And he goes skiing in the Alps every winter Roland's mother and
father live in New York. He was with them last year. Roland wants to live in
the States, too.
Evi Pappas is from a small town near Athens and she studies
English at university. She wants to be an English teacher. She plays the guitar
in a group called New Band. She says, "We play in the evenings at a cafe.
Many people like pop music. They come to the cafe and listen to us." Evi
isn't married but she has an Italian boyfriend called Luigi. Evi speaks Greek,
English, French and Italian.
Delia Chan is from Hong Kong. She is a student at a school for
foreign students in New York. She has a restaurant in Hong Kong She wants to
speak English to the people in her restaurant.
JOAN
Joan was a very good student when she was at school.
Computers were very interesting for her so she wanted to work with computers.
She finished school two years ago and started to work as a computer programmer.
Now she enjoys the work in the office very much. She can draw pictures with computers.
MAHATM A GANDHI
Mahatma Gandhi was born in India in 1869. He became one of
his coumS'Teadm L fe was difficult when he was young. He got married at the age
of thirteen; a common custom in India at that tone. He studied law at e
university He went to London and became a lawyer. Then he returned to his
country A few years later, he went to work in South Africa. He
™"eTciemonstrations- and they sent him to prison severa times. Twenty
years later, he returned to India. There, he worked hard to help the poor He
placed a very important role m the independence* of India. A fanatic killed him
in 1948.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford on April 23rd,
1564 His father, John Shakespeare, was an important man in the town- William
did not come from a poor family.
When he was eighteen. William married Anne Hathaway in Stratford. But
he didn’t want to stay there. He wanted
to be an actor and the best theatres were in London. So, in 1587, William went to London, where he
worked as an actor in a theatre called The Rose.
He began to write plays for the actors. He wrote Romeo and
Juliet, Julius Caesar, Richard II, Antony and Cleopatra and many more. Everyone liked his plays, and he became famuous.
When James I became King in 1603. Shakespeare worked for
him, and performed his plays for the King and his friends. He also worked at
the famous Globe Theatre. This theatre presented his last play. Henry VIII. There was a gun in this play, and
fire from the gun burned the theatre down.
In 1610 Shakespeare went back to Stratford. He wanted to
live there with his family. but he died on April 23rd, 1610. He was only forty-six
years old.
