Материалы к уроку английского языка в 11 классе по теме «Выдающиеся люди»

Name

Failure / Problems

Success / Achievements

1.

He was turned down 30 times.

He is one of the best-selling authors of all times. His books have sold more than 350 million copies which have been made into many movies and films.

2.

His early business was failed. He was broke (bankrupt) 5 times.

He is one of the richest and influential people in the world. He introduced the Model T automobile. He founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

3.

Her teenage mother fled away. She ran away from home. She had numerous career setbacks including losing her job as a television reporter.

She is famous for hosting the most popular talk show on American television. She is one of the richest and most influential women in the world.

4.

He gave up his studies in Harvard and failed his first business.

He created global empire Microsoft.

5.

He went to war as a captain ad returned a private. He started numerous failed businesses and lost in numerous elections for public office.

He was one of the greatest leaders of the American nation. The actions he took to achieve the goal to reunite the U.S. were some of his greatest accomplishments.

6.

He was fired from his first job. He started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with loss of money and failure.

He rakes in billions from products, movies and theme parks around the world.

7.

They had to cope with depression and family illness. They had numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work and tons of failed models.

They created a plane.

8.

He didn’t speak until he was 4 and didn’t read until he was 7. He was slow and anti-social. He was expelled from school and couldn’t enter the Zurich Polytechnic School.

He was a genius. He won the Nobel Prize and changed the face of modern physics.

9.

He was too stupid to learn anything. He was fired from his first two jobs and made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.

He invented the light bulb.