Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), German organist and composer of the baroque era, one of the greatest and most productive geniuses in the history of Western music. Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, into a family that over seven generations produced at least 53 prominent musicians, from Veit Bach to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. Johann Sebastian received his first musical instruction from his father, Johann Ambrosius, a town musician. When his father died, he went to live and study with his elder brother, Johann
Helena, the orphan daughter of a famous physician, is the ward of the Countess of Reussillon, ald hopelessly in love with her son, Count Bertram, who has been sent to the court of the king of France. Despite her beauty and worth, Helena has no hope of attracting Bertram, since she is of low birth and he is a nobleman. However, when word comes thet the king is ill, she goes to Paris and, using her father`s arts, cures the illness. In return, she is given the hand of any man in the realm; she choses Bertram. Her new husband is appalled at the mat
- was born in 1920 at Laton, England.He worked as a clerk. At the outbreak of World War 2 he joined the Royal Air Force.he served in the flying corps successfully, throughout the war he promoted to the rank of a Flight Lieutenant. In 1947 he emigrated to Canada when he lived for almost two decades. The year 1956 was a turning point in his life. It marked the begining of his career as a full time author. before that he had changed a number of jobs working as a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor. In 1965 he moved to Cali
Culture is part of life of everybody (fashion, theatre, film, TV, radio, music) What do it come under Culture? Fashion, theatre, film, TV, radio, music etc. The people need culture. They need go to the theatre, they need some various form of dressing. The need pastime in lesuire time. Fashion Thanks to the modern garment industry, people are better dressed now than in the old days. Other advances in technology are impotant too: Manmade fabrics do not crease and you always look neat. Shirts, blouses, jumpers, and dresses from these new materials
People may have many different types of hobbies during their lifetimes. When we are very young most of our time is spent playing with dolls or toy trucks. We also may enjoy playing in a sandbox or building with wooden blocks. When we get older we start to pursue our first hobbies. Some kids go out for a sport like football or figure skating. These new interests can be quite time-consuming and most children put a lot of energy into them. Some other children might get interested in less active activities like reading, painting, or stamp collectin
Oscar Wilde Dramatist, playwriter, poet, brilant essey and novel writer. The other of beautifull who would know his "The Happy Prince" or "Nighteengale and the Rose", his novel "The picture of Norian Greyn. He wrote several comedies. The importants Been Earnes. When he excells a music situation and writting dialogoues. His mother was poets and father surgeon. They were well-to-do and so Oscar recived the best private education and he graduated on Oxford university. He travell a lot in the US, in Fra
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest dramatists the world has ever had. his works reflect an image of humanity and a love of people and nature, and form an important part of the international heritage. In his own time, one of his great conteporaries called him "the sweet swan of Avon" and said that he was not for one age bt for all time. W.S.lived ibn the region of Queen Elizabeth 1. He was born in April 1564 in Stratford-upon Avon, as the third child of Mary and John Shakespeare. William was a bright boy, and you can sti
During the whole year various holidays and feast days are celebrated in Britian, U.S.A. and our country- Czech republic. Some holidays are celebrated in all these countries some are national holidays. One of the biggest holidays of the year is Christmas. It is day, when Christ was born. Christmas In Britian Preparations for Christmas start long before in late October or early November. That is when British housewives make their Christmas cakes. These cakes taste much better if made a month or two before Christmas. Some week
Reading is to the mind what exercise is tothe body. These famous words are quotation true to reality. It is a piece of wisdom Reading si very useful for our speech because it widens our word power. It is the source of both entertainment and knowledge. That is why are books so popular in our famly. In our family is commonly read prose. Let me characterise some of its genres. Fairy-tales are favourite with the children. They are very necessarry for them to narrate or read, because they instil in children sense of justice. They refle
Donald E. Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Case Institute of Technology, where he also wrote software at the Computing Center. The Case faculty took the unprecedented step of awarding him a Master's degree together with the B.S. he received in 1960. After graduate studies at California Institute of Technology, he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1963 and then remained on the mathematics faculty. Throughout this period he continued to be involved with software develo
In his work “Specification, Estimation and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models” Prof. Fair of Harvard (now Yale) developed among other things an econometric model of the US economy. In this paper I will focus on the construction of this model. This stage is a transition from a theoretical to an econometric model. It is of high importance, that the main features of the theoretical model are properly transformed in the econometric system of equations
Woody Allen, with his own name Allen Stewart Konigsberg, was born in New Yourk in 1935. He grew up there and tired to study. He was expeled out of the University of New Yourk and also the NY’s City College. At the age of 15 he began to write his first quips for newspaper columists, using the name Woody Allen. Then he wrote for radio and television performers, worked as a night club comedian and in 1964 started his very succesful film carier. He first directed his own film, What’s New Pussycat?, in 1966. Until now, he has made at least 20 mo
One of my most favourite books is The Lord of the Rings trilogy, written by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’ve read it at least four times and I believe it is one of the best fantasy books ever. I really love it because it’s very exciting, full of fabulous characters and creatures, there are many great poems and songs and I also appreciate Tolkien’s language inventions and maps, which makes you feel that this story really happened. I can’t write about The Lord of the Rings without mentioning The Hobbit. It is a story about little hobbit Bilbo
The first ihabitants of the US were the indians, who came from Asia there. They were spreading all over the America. Christopher Colombus discovered America many centuries later in 1492. He was the first European, who landed there, but another sources say, that America was discoverd by Vikings in the 10 century, but we haven ´t any proofs. Christopher Colombus, thinking, that he landed in India, named original inhabitants as the Indians. The name of America came from Amerigo Vespuci, famous Italian discoverer. The settlement by European
In 1492, Columbus made one great discoverie: He was the first who recorded observation of a cigar being smoked. One of the explorer’s officers, Roderigo de Xeres, saw a tribe of Indians in San Salvador smoking large cone-shapes rolls of tobacco. Spain, where tobacco was first cultivated for its medicinal properties, was the first country to manufacture cigars. Portuguese and Spanish sailors expanded the habit of smoking and transported the plant to the far corners of the earth. In the 1850s, Cuba became the world leader and premier man
Conditional – podmiňovací způsob Time clauses – souvětí časové
ZERO CONDITIONAL: Zero conditional sentences refer to “all time”, not just the present or future. They express a situation that is always true. Conditional sentence with 2 present tenses. If means when or whenever (kdykoli). - If you heat ice, it melts. - If you boil water, it evaporates. - If I read too much, I get a headache. - If you drop an egg, it breaks.
What´s bullying? It is misuseing might or strength. Victims are particulary kids, who cannot resist, or they have undersized self-confidence, because they are different in some things: E religion E appearance ( hair, fat, small, tall, "painful" clothes, wearing glasses...) E Character ( quiet, shy...) E prefering loneliness than group So, bulliyng is cruel, paintly psychical or fyzical bother.
Bullies aren´t very nice people, you think. But that´s wrong. Bullies
My family consists of four members father,mother,brother and me.My parents have been divorced for ten years.My father works as taxi driver.His name is Ladislav.He is 170cm tall.He has short brown hair,he is fourty-eight years old.He was born under virgin.My fathers hobbies are fishing,mending cars,walking with dog,driving a car,tourism,swimming and stagger.He doesn´t live with us,but he lives very close,in a block of flats.My father has a girlfriend,her name´s Anka,but they haven´t been married.Anka has two children,their name´s Peter &a
ABOUT LEARNING AND USING ENGLISH As it is known about 300 million people are said to speak English as their mother tongue. Where do all these people live? They live practically in all continents. English has the advantage of a geographical distribution such as no other language has. It is the native language of the people in Great Britain, Ireland, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, of the majority of people in Canada and of part of the white minority in the Republic of South Africa. Besides that, there are many people who speak English
Al Gore: biography U.S. Vice President. Born Albert Arnold Gore Jr., on March 31, 1948, in Washington, D.C. His father, Albert Gore Sr., a congressman from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. At once a Washington thoroughbred and a hometown Tennessean, Gore grew up accustomed to both environments. In the nation’s capital, Gore attended the exclusive St. Alban’s Episcopal School for Boys. In Tennessee, he worked