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Famous British People
Sir Christopher Wren
• is the greatest British architect
• made a plan for the reconstruction of St.
Paul's Cathedral in London
• presented a plan for rebuilding the city of
London after the Great fire
• designed and supervised the rebuilding of 51
city churches. Each church was different, but all
were classical in style.
• was responsible for Tom Tower at Christ's
Church, Oxford, the library at Trinity College,
and the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.
John Constable
• one of the most famous British artists
• sold only 20 paintings in his lifetime, and
was never recognized in his homeland while
he was alive.
• loved the countryside, and his best work
was of outdoor scenes in his native Suffolk
and his London home in Hampstead
• worked in the open air, though he
returned to his studio to finish his paintings.
George Stephenson
• started as an engineman
• developed a new safety lamp that would not
explode when used near the highly flammable
gasses found in the mines.
• built Stockton and Darlington line linking
West Durham and Darlington with the River
Tees.
• formed the first locomotive building company
in the world,
• was chief engineer for many British railway
companies
• constantly innovated and improved his engines
and the tracks.
Alexander Graham Bell
• was interested in working with the deaf for all
his life
• opened a school for teachers of the deaf and
then became a professor at Boston University
• In 1876, he patented his invention – the
telephone
• had the right to be the only one to produce
telephones in the U.S. for 19 years
• developed a method of making phonograph
records on a wax disc
• made an iron breathing lung, and a device
for locating icebergs at sea and the metal
detector
Robert Burns
• his first love inspired him to try his hand at
poetry
• the first published work of poetry was
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"
• contributed over 150 songs, including "Auld
Lang Syne", a reworking of an earlier folk song of
unknown origin
• gained more fame after his death than he ever
did during his lifetime.
• many of his songs and poems have become
international favourites
Alexander Fleming
• served throughout World War I as a captain
in the Army Medical Corps
• was elected Professor of Bacteriology at the
School in 1928.
• was the first to notice the antibiotic
properties of moulds and fungi
• Invented penicillin
Check yourself
Task 1
Task 2
Match
picture –person –phrase
Robert Burns
John
Constable
his poems
became
international was a great
favourites British artist
Alexander
Bell
invented
penicillin
George
Stephenson
built the
steam
locomotive
Alexander
Fleming
back
Christopher
Wren
rebuilt 51
churches in invented the
London
telephone
Who could have it?
George Stephenson
Alexander Graham Bell
3
1
2
John Constable
4
Alexander Fleming
back
Alexander Graham Bell
5
Christopher
Wren
6