Презентация, доклад на тему Методическая разработка по английскому языку Crime Writers. Agatha Christie

known for her detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Agatha was born in 1890 in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon, England to an American father and an English mother. Her family was well-to-do and conservative and she was the youngest of three children.

herself how to read when she was only four and later her parents hired tutors to provide lessons in subjects such as music, dance, mathematics, and French.

she first turned to music and later to writing and became very good at making up stories. When she was eleven, her father died and she became very close to her mother with whom she started to travel a lot.

a hospital and it was during this time that Agatha Christie got the idea of writing a detective novel. Although she finished the story in a year it wasn't published until five years later. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the retired Belgian police officer, Hercule Poirot, to the world and was a great success.

husband Archibald Christie was an army officer. Five years later Agatha gave birth to their daughter Rosalind. This was the time when she started her career as a writer. In 1920 Agatha Christie published her first detective novel “The mysterious affair at Styles”.

fell in love with another woman and asked for a divorce. In December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared. She left a letter where she wrote that she was heading to Yorkshire. Nothing was known about her for 11 days. She didn’t explain her disappearance. In 1928 Archibald and Agatha divorced.

met her future husband archaeologist Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie’s second husband was 15 years younger than her. They travelled together a lot. Agatha accompanied him on his trips to Iraq and Syria. Christie often used those settings for her new novels.

wrote over 66 novels, the most famous being Murder on the Orient Express, and according to the Guinness Book of records, Agatha Christie is the best-selling writer of her time with over four billion books sold throughout the world. In 1971, she was awarded the high honour of Dame of the British Empire before passing away peacefully on 21st January 1976.

to combine clever plots with excellent character drawing* and a keen sense of humour with a great observation. Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always conquered in her novels.