Homereading O. Karpyk " A biography of Agatha Christie" (P. 175 -178)

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1) детективний роман

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2) детектив

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3) оповідання

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4) сценарій

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5) п'єса

II. Complete the sentence.

1) Agatha Christie was born in ... in ... .

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2) Agatha Christie died in ... at the age of ... .

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3) Agatha Christie was the youngest of ... .

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4) Agatha Christie ... .

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5) Agatha Christie came up with the idea of writing a detective novel ... .

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6) Agatha Christie`s second husband was ... .

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7) One of the most popular novels of hers is ... .

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8) ... and ... are Christie`s well-known characters.

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9) Agatha Christie is the author of 70 ... and a number of ... , plays and screenplays.

III. True or false?

1) Agatha Christie used her working experience in writing her novels.

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2) Hercules Poirot is the main character of 30 detective stories by Agatha Christie.

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3) There was some personal tragedy in Christie`s life connected with her first husband.

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4) The journeys to the Far East with Agatha`s second husband created the background for the novel Death on the Nile.

III. True or false?

5) An old lady with sharp mind and intuition was called Mrs. Hudson.

III. True or false?

6) Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer of all times whose works are translated into different languages.

Answer question!

Where was Agatha born?

How much time did Agatha disappeared after a divorce?

What did the writer work during the First World War as?

Where did the writer meet her second husband?

How many novels did Christy write ?

Which journeys did create the background for several of her novels?