Unit 4 audio SEPIS no mer diesit kuprasni niu ajin.0:00
You will hear five people speaking.0:05
Match what they say with the statements in your workbook.0:07
There is one statement you don't have to use.0:10
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician and writer.0:14
He was born and raised in Vinci.0:27
His mother was a peasant woman.0:29
His father was a notary.0:32
His name is famous primarily thanks to his painted works.0:34
Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, are regarded as masterpieces all over the world.0:38
Sir Winston Leonhart Spencer Churchill was born in 1874 in the family of Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill and an American mother.0:47
He was educated in Harrow, one of the most prestigious secondary schools in Britain.0:56
He had a very brief career in the army and became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.1:00
He occupied many high positions in liberal and conservative governments during the first decades of the previous century.1:07
Sherlock Holmes, one of the greatest detectives of all times, as we know, came from Britain.1:15
His address is also well known to the admirers of this genre fiction.1:21
Number 221B, Baker Street, London.1:26
Letters addressed to him continue to arrive at Baker Street.1:30
Many people write to this great detective asking him for help.1:34
Sometimes they mention that the police cannot do anything or add such words as please hurry as there is no 221B Back Street.1:38
The postmen bring letters to number 221.1:49
They say they get no less than one letter a week.1:53
Isaac Ilyich Levitan.1:57
This name is known to all lovers of landscape paintings.1:59
In 1870 he entered Moscow School of Painting, where his elder brother Yvil had already studied for two years.2:03
Levitan's instructors were famous Savrasov, Perov and Polyanov.2:11
The boy's success at school was evidently in 1880, his painting Autumn Day Sokolniki was bought by Russian collector Pavel Tretyakov.2:17
Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous British writer and a great traveler too.2:29
From his early days he was filled with a desire to travel.2:34
He wanted love and adventure and found them both.2:37
Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850.2:41
At the age of 17 he became a student of Edinburgh University.2:44
He studied engineering, but his heart and thoughts were where somewhere else.2:48
He wanted to become a writer.2:52
In 1883 he published the Story of the Treasure Island.2:54
The book brought him literary fame and made him an adventure classic.2:58
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