Презентация по личности Алана Милна (к литературной встрече) на английском языке

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Biography Alan Milne was born in London on the 18th of January in 1882 He was the youngest sun in the family . There were two e lder brothers , Barry and Kenneth . Kenneth, Alan, Barry

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Biography Alan Miln is a famous British writer , playwright , poet and publicist . He is known as the author of nursery rhymes and fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh, which have become classics of world literature. It was filmed in many countries of the world including Russia.

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Biography Miln’s father was the headmaster of a small school . One of the teachers at th is school was the famous writer H. G. Wells.

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Biography Milne went to Westminster School at the age of 11 and then went on at Cambridge to become a mathematician . Instead it he became the editor of the university's journal " Granta ", in which he published some of his light humorous poems . At the age of 24 he was given a post of assistant editor of the famous magazine " Punch ".

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Biography In 1913 he married Dorothy De Selincourt . T he next year when the First Warld war broke out he joined the British Army.

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Biography He returned from the front with a severe form of PTSD ( post-traumatic stress disorder ). In search of calmness , the writer and his family moved to the countryside in Sussex .

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Biography War had a strong influence on Miln and it was the reason why he became a convinced pacifist . In 1934, he published the book "Peace with Honor", in which he stood for peace . But after begining the Second World War the writer had changed his mind. He said that sometimes war is just a necessary .

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Biography The Milnes ' only child was born on August 21st 1920. They named their son Christopher Robin . The Milnes bought him a teddy bear for his first birthday . The teddy bear was soon name d Winnie , after a real-life bear that lived in London Zoo .

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Interesting fact This is the real bear Winnipeg ( Winnie ). The bear was the star of the London zo o . Christopher Robin met th is bear and began to call his teddy bear Vinnie With " Pooh ".

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A. A. Milne died at his home in Sussex, on 31 January 1956, at the age of 74.

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A.A. Milne quotes " Weeds are flowers too , once you get to know them ." "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority . The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority . The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking ." "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries ." "To the uneducated , an A is just three sticks ." "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you . You have to go to them sometimes ." " Some people care too much . I think it's called love ." " If you live to be a hundred , I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you ."

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Interesting facts about A.A. Milne The A. A. stands for Alan Alexander A. A. Milne graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge , with a B.A. in Mathematics . J.M. Barrie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle played cricket with Milne . His most famous character , Winnie the Pooh , first appeared in the poem , " Teddy Bear" which was published in Punch magazine in 1924. Hundred Acre Wood was inspired by a real forest in Sussex called Ashdown Forest . Eeyore , one of Christopher Robin's toys ( which inspired the characters in the story ), lost some stuffing after much play , and his head began to droop . It is thought that this is the reason for Eeyore's melancholy personality in the stories . Milne's son , Christopher Robin , was bullied at school about the book series and took boxing classes in order to defend himself . A. A. Milne usually saw his son , formally , three times a day . A nanny raised Christopher Robin , which was the custom at the time .