ё? 2. When and where was she born? 3. How many sisters and brothers did she have? 4. Where were the girls and why? 5. How did the children live in that school? 6. What happened to Charlotte’s two sisters in that school? 7. What did Charlotte become when she left school? 8. In what novel did Charlotte Brontё describe that school? 9. When was this novel published? 10. What novel made the writer famous?
Test 2. TRUE or FALSE:
1. Charlotte Brontё was a famous American poet.
2. She was born in a poor family.
3. There were 5 children in the family.
4. The girls were sent to school for rich children.
5. The children lived in cold dark rooms.
6. Later Charlotte Brontё described the school in the novel “Jane Eyre”.
7. When she left school she became a doctor.
8. Her sisters wrote poems and novels.
9. “Jane Eyre” was published in 1848 and made the writer famous.
10. It was her first novel.
Olympic games and Kazakhstan
July 17 at 11:35 am
Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst
On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.
Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.
However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).
The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order