Appendix lesson 1 getting acquainted. Hobbies preferences

CARD A

M adonna, born in 1958, was brought up in Rochester Hills Michigan. Her mother died, from breast cancer, when she was only five; she was brought up by her grandparents. In 1978, she dropped out of college and moved to New York, with barely the clothes she was standing in. She got a job as a waitress at Dunking Donuts, and in her spare time learnt modern dance. She temporarily joined a rock band 'The Breakfast Club' but tried to make a solo career and gaining the favourable impression with Sire Records, she was given a recording contract.

was brought up (від bring up) = виросла (дослівно: була вихована), = was raised

breast cancer – рак грудей

to drop out of – кидати (навчання)

barely – усього лише

temporarily – тимчасово

to gain – здобувати

favourable – позитивний

In 1982 she released her first single 'Everybody' and in 1983, she launched her first album 'Madonna'. It sold very well, but it was her next album 'Like a Virgin' which made her into an international superstar. The album sold over 12 million copies, helped by the hit single 'Like a Virgin' which stayed at number one for 6 weeks.

to launch – випускати

As well as being a successful music recording artist, Madonna was very influential in fashion and attitudes to life. Her trademark looks included fish net stockings, a Christian cross, bleached hair and Capri skirts.

influential – впливовий

attitude – ставлення

trademark – відмітний знак

She has acted in a couple of films, without much commercial success – though her appearance in Evita about Eva Peron, the famous Argentinean wife of the President, received good reviews.

though – хоча

review – відгук, рецензія

She has now produced over 10 albums and remains a very influential artist still capable of hitting the top of the album charts. According to Billboard magazine, she is second only to the Beatles in terms of all-time best selling artist.

capable of – здатний

according to – згідно

in terms of – відносно

CARD B

Barack Obama is the 44^th President of the United States. His story is the American story – values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

W ith a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with the help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother.

values – цінності

upbringing – виховання

to get ahead – процвітати

conviction – переконання

After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, he moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.

He went on to attend the law school, where he became the first African—American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago and remain active in his community.

scholarship – стипендія

loan – позика

devastated – спустошений

steel – сталь

President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he locked up the world's most dangerous weapons, and brought transparency to government.

unwavering – непохитний

purpose – мета

tax – податок

expand – розширити

weapon – зброя

transparency – прозорість

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

was elected – був обраний

was sworn – дав присягу, заприсягнув

CARD C

A ctress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. She began acting at a young age, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University.

humanitarian-гуманіст

In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

award – винагорода

Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award (for best supporting actress). She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in the Lara Croft films, a FBI profiler in Taking Lives (2004), an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) and a neglected, troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd (2006).

a variety of – розмаїття

assassin – найманий вбивця

neglected – забутий, занедбаний

Famous for her off-screen romances, Angelina Jolie has been married seceral times. She married Hackers co-star Jonny Lee Miller in 1995. The couple divorced in 1999. The following year, Jolie married Academy Award-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton. That union lasted until 2003. Jolie met her next romantic partner, actor Brad Pitt, during the making of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004.

off-screen – закадровий

to divorce – розлучатися

In 2002, Angelina Jolie adopted a son from Cambodia and named him Maddox. Three years later, she adopted a daughter, Zahara. In 2005, actor Brad Pitt filed paperwork to adopt both of Jolie's children. The couple's first biological daughter, Shiloh, was born in the African country of Namibia in 2006. Jolie, Pitt and their children had traveled there to avoid the media frenzy that seemed to follow them wherever they went.

In March 2007, Angelina Jolie added a new member to her family. She adopted a 3-year-old boy from a Vietnamese orphanage and named him Pax Thien. Jolie gave birth to twins on July 12, 2008, in a seaside hospital in southern France. The rights for the first images of the twins were sold to People and Hello! magazines for $14 million – making them the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.

to adopt – усиновляти

to avoid – уникати

frenzy – божевілля

orphanage – сирітство

twins – близнята

CARD D

S teve Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on February 24, 1955. His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students, Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.

visionary – провидець

chairman – голова

chief executive officer – виконавчий директор

to object to – не схвалювати

The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs replied that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." Unknown to him, his biological parents subsequently married (1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorced in 1962.

to reply – відповідати

to state – зазначати

subsequently – згодом, пізніше

Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara couldn’t afford. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.

temple - храм

dorm = dormitory – гуртожиток

In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs died at his California home on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.

board of directors – рада директорів

to acquire – придбати

complication – ускладнення

relapse – рецидив

pancreatic – якийвідноситьсядопідшлунковоїзалози