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The Author: Answer questions 1–10 about George Bernard Shaw: 1) Where was George Bernard Shaw born? 2) Which school did Shaw go to? 3) Why did he move to London? 4) What did Shaw do for a living before he became a famous author? 5) How many plays did Shaw write? 6) Name two famous plays other than Pygmalion that Shaw wrote. 7) What happened to King Edward VII when he watched one of Shaw’s plays? 8) Which awards did Shaw win? 9) When did Shaw die? 10) Which of Bernard Shaw’s plays was made into a musical?

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Ответ:

  1. He was born in Dublin, Ireland.
  2. He went to the Wesleyan Connexional School.
  3. He moved to London to join his mother and sister and to become a writer.
  4. He worked as a clerk and later earned money as a journalist and music and theatre critic.
  5. He wrote more than fifty plays.
  6. Mrs Warren’s Profession and Saint Joan.
  7. King Edward VII laughed so much that he fell off his chair.
  8. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award.
  9. He died in 1950.
  10. Pygmalion was made into the musical My Fair Lady.