William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

William Shakespeare, English literature’s most famous playwright and poet was born on April 23, 1564 in the Warwickshire town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He was educated at the local grammar school and in 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer.

Around 1585, Shakespeare left Stratford and moved to London where he began his career in the theatre. Little is known about this period in his life, but by 1595 he was certainly well established both as an actor and a popular playwright.

His early plays were so popular in fact that, by the mid-1590s, writing had become Shakespeare’s main occupation.

During the next twenty years he wrote over thirty full-length plays including the world-famous comedies, histories, tragedies and romances. William Shakespeare’s best-known plays include: (histories) Julius Caesar, Henry V(1594-1600), (comedies) As You Like It, Twelfth Night (1598-1601), (tragedies) King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth (1601-1608), (late romances) The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest (1608-1611).Eventually he retired to Stratford in 1611 as a rich and famous man. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, 2 poems and 154 sonnets.

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1) Where and when was William Shakespeare born?

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Pocket calculator

For thousands of years people have been able to perform simple mathematical functions with the help of machines. The abacus, which consists of movable beads strung on wires, has been around since ancient Egyptian times.

The slide rule was invented in the 17^th century, as was a digital calculating machine that could perform only addition. But the invention of the transistor and its use in integrated circuits made possible much smaller, faster, and more powerful machines.

In 1971 Texas Instruments introduced the first electronic calculator. It was portable but not small enough to be a pocket calculator. With the continual miniaturization of solid – state electronic components, later calculators were much smaller. Some, today, are the size of credit cards and can fit inside wallets.

Many pocket calculators now come with more advanced features, such as the ability to store numbers in memory and the ability to perform exponential and trigonometric functions.

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Таблица основных нестандартных глаголов

Infinitive Неопределенная форма	Past Indefinite (Simple) Простое прошедшее время	Past Participle Причастие прошедшего времени (причастие II)
to arise – возникать to be – быть to bear – носить, плодоносить to become – становиться to begin – начинать to break – ломать to bring – приносить to build – строить can – могу, умею to choose – выбирать to cost – стоить to cut – резать, рубить to deal – иметь дело to do – делать to draw – тащить; рисовать to drive – везти; управлять to eat – есть to fall – падать to feed – кормить to feel – чувствовать to fight – сражаться to find – находить to freeze – замерзать, замораживать to get – доставать to give – давать to go – ходить to grow – расти to have – иметь to hear – слышать to hold – держать, удерживать to keep – содержать, держать to know – знать to lay – класть, положить	arose was, were bore became began broke brought built could chose cost cut dealt did drew drove ate fell fed felt fought found froze got gave went grew had heard held kept knew laid	arisen been born become begun broken brought built ------ chosen cost cut dealt done drawn driven eaten fallen fed felt fought found frozen got given gone grown had heard held kept known laid

Infinitive Неопределенная форма	Past Indefinite (Simple) Простое прошедшее время	Past Participle Причастие прошедшего времени (причастие II)
to lead – вести, руководить to learn – учить, учиться to leave – оставлять to let – позволять to lie – лежать to lose – терять to make – делать may – можно to mean – означать to meet – встречать must – должен to overcome – побороть, преодолеть to pay – платить to put – класть, ставить to read – читать to ring – звонить to rise – подняться to run – бежать, течь; работать (о машине) to saw – пилить to say – сказать to see – видеть to send – посылать to set – устанавливать to show – показывать to sink – тонуть; впитывать to sit – сидеть to sow – (по) сеять to speak – говорить to split – расщепить (ся) to spread – распространить (ся) to stand – стоять to take – брать to teach - учить	led learnt learned left let lay lost made might meant met ---------- overcame paid put read rang rose ran sawed said saw sent set showed sank sat sowed spoke split spread stood took taught	led learnt learned left let lain lost made --------- meant met ---------- overcome paid put read rung risen run sawn sawed said seen sent set shown sunk sat sowed sown spoken split spread stood taken taught

Infinitive Неопределенная форма	Past Indefinite (Simple) Простое прошедшее время	Past Participle Причастие прошедшего времени (причастие II)
to tell – рассказать to think – думать to understand – понимать to wear – носить, изнашивать (ся) to withstand - противостоять to write - писать	told thought understood wore withstood wrote	told thought understood worn withstood written