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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

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.