Agatha Christie was born in Devon, England in 1890 as the daughter of a British army captain. During the First World War she worked in a hospital as a nurse. Later on she got a job in a pharmacy. This influenced many of her crime stories because some of her victims were poisoned.Agatha Christie was married twice and especially her second husband travelled a lot with her. Some of her novels, like "Death on the Nile" were set in the Middle East. "Murder on the Orient Express" was written in Istanbul.At the beginning of the 1970s Agatha Christie became ill, but she went on writing. When she died in 1976 she had written over 60 novels, 150 short stories and 16 plays. Her stage play "The Mousetrap" is the longest running play in history. It was first performed in 1952 and after a record 23,000 performances it is still running today.Many of Christie's books and short stories have been turned into successful movies
3. Найдите и выпишите предложения в Present Perfect. --- “We’ve definitely made mistakes, but it’s probably the first time in our lives that we’re not getting a grade and we don’t have anyone telling us what to do.” --- Lehigh first tried what it calls its mountaintop program on a smaller scale last summer, combining elements that scholars of education have advocated for years — research, work experience and independent, long-form projects. --- Some colleges have expanded those practices, but the going has been slow. --- The annual National Survey of Student Engagement shows that by the time they graduate, fewer than half of college students have done internships or some other kind of field experience, fewer than half have done a senior thesis and just 23 percent have done research with a faculty member outside of what is required for their courses.
4. Найдите и выпишите предложения в Present Continuous. --- Most of the students here are pursuing their own projects — about 30 in all — and finding their own way, with little faculty input and with nothing more at stake than testing their own ambition, skills and curiosity. --- “We got a group together and said what we wanted to do, and the administration just said, ‘O.K., ask for any equipment or advice you need,’ ” said Colleen Perry, who is studying bioengineering. --- “We’ve definitely made mistakes, but it’s probably the first time in our lives that we’re not getting a grade and we don’t have anyone telling us what to do.” So what Lehigh is trying, she said, “is pretty interesting.”
5. Найдите и выпишите предложения в Present Perfect Continuous. --- “We know that these are high-impact practices that we’ve been expanding, but we need to think about new models of how to promote them, because a faculty member can only take on so many students to mentor directly,” said Lynnette Overby, director of undergraduate research and experiential learning at the University of Delaware.
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