KET 7A

​Australia--Australian

Belarus--Belarusian

Brazil-- Brazilian

Britain --British

China --Chinese

Croatia -- Croatian

the Czech Republic-- Czech

​Lithuania -- Lithuanian

Poland -- Polish

the Republic of Ireland--Irish

Romania -- Romanian

Russia-- Russian

Slovakia -- Slovakian

​Egypt--Egyptian

France-- French

Germany-- German

Italy--Italian

Jamaica-- Jamaican

Japan--Japanese

​South Africa-- South African

Spain--Spanish

Sweden--Swedish

Turkey-- Turkish

Ukraine--Ukrainian

the USA--American

Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous composer. He was born in Germany.

Beethoven's father was a music teacher. As a child, Beethoven was a brilliant

musician and he soon started to compose music too. He composed some

of the greatest and most important music in history. The amazing thing is,

after the age of 40, Beethoven was completely deaf, but he continued to

compose music. He died in Austria, at the age of 57.

​James was a very famous film star. He was born in the USA. He studied drama at the University of California. Dean's first job was in a television advert for Pepsi Cola. He acted in three very famous films and he was soon a very popular and famous actor. Dean loved fast cars. He died in a car crash at the age of 24.

​Florence Nightingale was born in Italy. Her parents were British and they were very rich. When Nightingale was seventeen, she decided to become

a nurse. Her family weren't very happy about this because they wanted Florence to get married and have children. During a war with Russia, Nightingale helped British soldiers who were sick. When she returned to England, she started a hospital in London. She died in England, at the age of 90

​Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867. Maria was a very intelligent student at school, but she couldn't go to university because she was a woman. So she worked as a teacher and studied secretly in Warsaw. Later she moved to France and studied science in Paris. In 1895 she married Pierre Curie, a French scientist. They worked together and discovered many important things in science and chemistry. She died in 1934 at the age of 66.