Стр.31 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 8 класс
Reading 1 Read the text quickly and find the name of: 1 A queen 2 A dog 3 A mountain Head Tales What have the faces of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa and Queen Elizabeth II got in common?
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Reading
1 Read the text quickly and find the name of:
1 A queen
2 A dog
3 A mountain
Head Tales
What have the faces of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa and Queen Elizabeth II got in common?
They all appear on coins or banknotes. Some are still being used today. Others are in museum collections around the world. Portraits on coins and banknotes help us to understand the history of people, countries and empires.
Most faces are of kings, queens and heads of state, but there are also faces of artists, musicians, explorers, inventors, scientists, religious leaders and even the modern-day fictional wizard Harry Potter!
The Isle of Man Government decided to make a limited edition of Harry Potter coins. Harrytasks face is on the back of the Elizabeth II’s face is on the front. The five pence coins cost 39.95 pounds but have a street value of five pence.
In 2004, in Belgium, they made 50000 special ten-euro coins to commemorate the Belgian writer, Herge’s, most famous characters. Tintin and his dog Snowy appear on one side of the coin and a map of Europe appears on the other side. Collectors paid 31 euros for each coin.
Until 1991 in New Zealand, the portraits on coins and banknotes were either heads of state or dead people. Sir Edmund Hillary broke this rule. His face appeared on five-dollar banknotes. Hillary was famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953. He died in 2008.
2 Find words in the text that mean:
1 paper money
2 not real, invented
3 a person that collects objects as a hobby
4 a picture of a person
3 Read and listen to the text. Answer the questions.
1 Which fictional character appeared on the back of coins in the Isle of Man?
2 How much did collectors pay for the ten-euro Tintin coins?
3 When did Sir Edmund Hillary’s face appear on banknotes in New Zealand?