Презентация на тему «Teddy Bear as a symbol of unloneliness» ("Плюшевый мишка как средство против одиночества").
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (5, 6, 7, 8, 9 класс)

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Teddy bear appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century and became a symbol of love, friendship and luck .

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Many people collect teddy bears and they have a special name – “ arctophiles ” and their hobby is know as “ arctophily ” from Greek words “ arctos ” (meaning “bear”) and “ philos ” (meaning “love” )

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Doctors and nurses often use it in their work because a teddy bear can comfort patients if they hug it.

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Teddy bear appeared in November 1902, when the 26 th President of the USA Theodore Roosevelt , know to his friends as Teddy , went hunting.

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During the hunting Roosevelt didn’t want to shoot a helpless bear and American journalists wrote about this incident in the Washington Post.

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Rose Michtom , the wife of a Russian immigrant, who had a toy shop in Brooklyn made a soft jointed bear modeling it on the picture from the newspaper.

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The Michtoms wrote to the White House asking the President’s permission to call it “Teddy’s bear” and he agreed.

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In 1904 Roosevelt made the Teddy bear an element of his election campaign. Its size was from 15 to 30 centimetres and it had googly eyes.

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But the Steiff family from Germany began using mohair plush for making teddy bears, which is widely used nowadays.

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The Steiffs ’ first Teddy bear was grey and had long legs and arms and is known as a 55PB.

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Then they modified the Teddy bear making the body less chunky and used a lighter coloured fur. And the Steiffs got two Gold Medals and the Grand Prix award for their toys.

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Later cheap imitations of the early teddy bears appeared and women began knitting them and made them from sheepskin and old blankets.

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During the Second World War people used teddy bears as talismans and gave them to the dearest people.

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Teddy is the main character in many books and cartoons Winnie-the-Pooh Paddington bear

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Teddy bears have become like “little people”, silent, yet understanding companions, providing for many people an important link to childhood and an antidote to loneliness .