INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ

Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem

a rozpočtem České republiky.

The British Icons – Popular Royal Icons, TV Programs, Politicians, Pop Idols etc.

Watch a Video – Absolutely Fabulous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqKJv6JoxFM&feature=PlayList&p=95B4A0516CDD87CF&index=3

Listen to an interview with Joanna Lumley

Exercise 1 – gap filling http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1555_entertainment07/page8.shtml

Exercise 2 – explain some words from listening:

1. Partition

2. regiment

3. brought up

4. my first sense

5. fearful

6. glorious

7. lambent

Her audition didn’t go very well – she says it was fearful, it was dreadful. She also talks about ripping up badreviews of her (21) ____________ so that she only remembers the good ones. Some of the words she’d like tohear describe her acting are – ‘glorious’, ‘lambent’ which means glowing, ‘gleaming’ and ‘shining’. They areall what we’d call superlatives – adjectives that describe___________________________________________________________________________________________________Entertainmentbbclearningenglish.com ©BBC Learning English 2007 Page 2 of 6something in (22) ______ ____________ ___ ____________. That’s the kind of actress Joanna Lumley hopesshe’ll always be remembered (23) ______.

The British – Famous People / Characters

• The first episode of the original Mr Bean series starring Rowan Atkinson was first broadcast on 1st January 1990.

• There are all together only 14 episodes

• In 2002 the character was transformed into an animated series

• Try Mr. Bean quiz at:

• http://www.mrbean.co.uk/uk/quiz/

Still with Rowan Atkinson – Blackadder

• four series of a BBC – a historical sitcom

• All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick

• ranked at 16 in the "100 Greatest British Television Programmes"

• Watch a piece at:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08

Monty Python

• a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus (show first on the BBC on 5 October 1969)

• broadcast from 1969 to 1974

• written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin

• an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach

Monty Python - films

• There were five Monty Python productions released as theatrical films:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

British Political Icons

• Sir Winston Churchill - Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955

• Barroness Margaret Thatcher (Iron Lady) – Prime Minister from1979 to 1990

• Sir Robert Walpole - the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, first elected in 1701

British Iconic Cars

• Rolls Royce

• Jaguar

• Aston Martin

British Royal Icons

• Queen Elizabeth (Queen from 1558 to 1603) – Tudor dynasty, William Shakespeare, Francis Drake

• Queen Victoria (Queen from 1837 to 1901)

• Princess Diana (died in 1997)

• Prince William

British Pop Icons

• The Beatles

• Rolling Stones

• Elton John

• David Bowie

• Spice Girls

• Tom Jones

• Queen

INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ

Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem

a rozpočtem České republiky.