Lesson uzbekistan’s pearl. The Ferghana valley

LESSON 8.
HANDCRAFTS.
Marghilan is an ancient city of the valley. It is in Ferghana region. It lies 18 km to the North of Ferghana. It is also beautiful city in the Ferghana region after Ferghana and Kokand. Marghilan is the silk centre of Uzbekistan. There are weaving mills which manufacture famous Khan-atlas, Adras and Bekasam. It is a city of tradesman and handcrafts. Marghilan was famous all over the world with its silk. Khan atlas and Adras of Marghilan are very beautiful. Girls put on atlas or adras dresses on holidays and birthday parties, because they are a lovely dress for Uzbek girls.
Kokand is a city of poet and poetess. It is an ancient city. It is situated in the western part of Ferghana valley. The distance of Kokand from Ferghana is 100 km. It’s territory is 65 sq.km. the population of the city is 180 thousand. It is a cultural center of Ferghana. It is the birth place of famous Uzbek writers. Kokand is the city of poets and poetess. There is a beautiful market in Kokand. There are 3 gates in it. There is a historical museum in Kokand. Kokand is very beautiful city in the Ferghana region.

1. 
   Is Marghilan an ancient city?
   
2. 
   Where is it situated?
   
3. 
   What are a lovely dress for Uzbek girls?
   
4. 
   Is Kokand the birth place of poets?
   
5. 
   Will you tell us about Kokand?
   

FAMOUS PEOPLE. W. SHAKESPEARE.
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564. His father was a rich citizen whose business was making and selling leather gloves. His mother was the daughter of an important farmer. When he was nineteen, William married Anne. She was a farmer's daughter and she was some years older than himself. During that years he may have helped his father in the family business or he may have been a country schoolmaster for a time, we don't know exactly. Shakespeare had three children: Susannah, the eldest, then twins — a son, Hamlet, and another girl, Judith. In 1587 Shakespeare went to work in London, leaving Anne and the children at home. Some years later Shakespeare began to write plays. The parents did not even guess that their son would be such an important figure in English poetry and drama and that his plays would still be acted four hundred years later in England and all over the world. By 1592 Shakespeare was an important member of well-known company. In 1599 the famous Globe Theatre was built on the south bank of the river Thames. In that theatre most of his plays were performed. It was a round building with the stage in the center, open to the sky. If it was raining, the actors got wet; if the weather was too bad, there was no performance at all.
By 1603 Shakespeare was the leading poet and dramatist of his time. He continued to write for the next ten years. In 1613 he finally stopped writing and went to live in Stratford where he died in 1616. He is buried in Stratford-on-Avon.

1. What was William's father business?

2. His mother was a farmer's daughter, wasn't she?
3. How many children did Shakespeare have?
4. When did he start to write?
5. The Globe Theatre was built in 1599, wasn't it?

citizen — fuqaro

gloves — qo’lqop
to guess — topmoq
play — p’esa
stage — sahna ko’rinishi

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