Liza, Betty, Lorance and Mary are fond of learning languages. Los table and say: what languages they already know and what langue
the French language and the Spanis
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are learning.
guage now.
knows
wants to know
Mary
Liza
Betty
Lorance
Italian
English
French
German
Arabic
Spanish
Chinese
the French language
the Spanish language
the Italian language
the English language
the Russian language
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Make up true sentences using the table.
anna akhmatova - was the pen name of anna andreevna gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of st petersburg tradition of russian poetry in the course of half a century.
akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the stalinist terror. her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of stalinism.
early life
akhmatova was born in bolshoy fontan near odessa. her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. she was educated in kiev, tsarskoe selo, and the smolny institute of st petersburg. anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: racine, pushkin, and baratynsky. as her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her tatar ancestors as a pseudonym.