Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II is well known throughout the world. She is the Queen of sixteen countries but lives in the United Kingdom. Her ancestors have ruled over the UK for over a thousand years. She holds enormous power over her 129 million subjects, but rarely gets involved with politics. She is a hard-working Queen who has adapted to world changes over six decades.

Elizabeth has many other positions besides being a monarch. She is Head of the Commonwealth (the collection of 16 nations), Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Chief of Fiji and head of many parts of the UK armed forces. She married a Greek prince in 1947. Her husband is known as the Duke of Edinburgh.

Elizabeth was born in London in 1926. She was third in line to the throne and never expected to become queen. She was on safari in Kenya when she received news that her father had died and she was the new Queen. She was crowned in 1953 and soon after the ceremony she went on a six-month world tour to visit her people.

Elizabeth has always taken her position as Queen extremely seriously. She has never given a press interview, and no one knows her political views. She has been the ultimate professional throughout her working life. Even her dress has stayed conservative. She is famous for her plain-coloured coats. She continues to attend many cultural events as part of her public role.

Match the following phrases from the article:

1.	Queen Elizabeth II is well known	a.	her political views
	Her ancestors have ruled over the UK	b.	politics
3.	rarely gets involved with	c.	as the Duke of Edinburgh
4.	Elizabeth has many other positions	d.	professional
5.	Her husband is known	e.	to visit her people
6.	She was third in	f.	throughout the world
7.	she went on a six-month world tour	g.	her plain-coloured coats
8.	no one knows	h.	for over a thousand years
9.	She has been the ultimate	i.	besides being a monarch
10.	She is famous for	j.	line to the throne

1.What did you learn from this text about Queen Elizabeth II?2.What questions would you like to ask Queen Elizabeth II? 3.What would her answers be to those questions?

Jordan’s Queen Rania

Jordan’s Queen Rania is a very modern monarch. She has worked for companies like Citibank and Apple Computer and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also uses YouTube to help people around the world understand more about the Arab world. She became a Jordanian royal after marrying King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein in June 1993, six months after they met.

She was born as Rania Al-Yassin in Kuwait in 1970. Her parents were Palestinian. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in Business Administration. She is frequently in the Forbes magazine list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Being an honorary colonel of the Jordanian Armed Forces might help keep her there.

Queen Rania is famous around the world for her charity work. She fights for education reform and better school facilities for poor children. She is a strong believer in the need for compulsory English language classes at schools. She is involved with a great variety of organizations and campaigns for better vaccines, cancer research, family safety and many more worthy causes.

Harpers & Queen magazine named her the world’s third most beautiful woman in 2005. She is a very strong supporter of women’s rights. She tours the world talking about women’s issues at international conferences. In particular, she speaks about people’s misunderstandings about women's role in Islam. She inspires women around the world and works to improve their lives.

Match the following phrases from the article:

1.	Queen Rania is a very	a.	women around the world
	understand more	b.	Business Administration
3.	She was born as	c.	facilities
4.	a degree in	d.	English language classes
5.	the 100 most powerful	e.	about the Arab world
6.	better school	f.	causes
7.	the need for compulsory	g.	women in the world
8.	many more worthy	h.	modern monarch
9.	misunderstandings about	i.	Rania Al-Yassin in Kuwait
10.	She inspires	j.	women's role in Islam

1.What do you know about Queen Rania?2.Would you like to meet Queen Rania?3.What would you like to know about Queen Rania and why?

Jobs

Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting-edge products made Apple a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’ advice for success is: “You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011, aged 56.

Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a much-respected corporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style won him millions of fans.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended lectures after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari, where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Together, they developed the Mac. It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be commercially successful. Jobs also built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created. He developed a passion for style and functional perfection, which became Apple trademarks.

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