1. Petsyk Julia 9-A form School №24

2. Is it easy to be celebrity? 1.What makes person famous? 2.In what sphere is it easier to become famous? 3.What features of character help to be celebrity?

3. What makes person famous?

4. Plan of research: 1. Analyze the answers of our students what kind of people are the most famous 2. To get information: -short history -Oxford nowadays Famous alumni : Reginald Pole Lewis Carroll J.K.TolkienJ.K.Tolkien Kate Beckinsale Hogue Grant L. WashingtonL. Washington

5. Questions: What is Oxford? How many people know about it? Who studied in Oxford? How many students want to study there?

6. Welcome to Oxford City Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history.

7. Welcome to Oxford City For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9th century an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years.

8. Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hi- tech community. Many businesses are located in and around the town, whether on one of the Science and Business Parks or within one of a number of residential areas.

9. How many people know about it?

10. But Oxford isn’t famous only by its historical places.

11. There were many famous people, who were studying here…

12. Reginald Pole (1500 – November 17, 1558) He was an English prelateson of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. His maternal grandparents were George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence

13. The last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Pole was born in at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, England in March 1500. He was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford from about 1512 until about 1519. He was taught by William Latimer and Thomas Linacre, and admitted BA on 27 June 1515. In February 1518 Henry granted him the deanery of Wimborne Minster, Dorset.

14. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican photographer. clergyman, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14,1898)

15. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (January 3, 1892 – September 2,1973) He was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo- Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and Merton Professor of English language and literature (1945 to 1959). He was a devout Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis; they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.

16. Lawrence Washington (1602–1655) He was the great-great- grandfather of George Washington. Washington was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. His degree there was awarded in 1623. He resigned from his Fellowship in 1633. According to the college records he left in debt, "owing 17s 10d personally and £9 5s 9d on behalf of a pupil". College Fellows at Oxford at the time were held liable for their students' debts. The college accounting books read: "Mr Washington to be sued", but no lawsuit ever was filed.

17. Kate Beckinsale Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973 in London) is an English actress. Her most popular films include Pearl Harbor (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and Underworld (2003). "

18. Kate Beckinsale was born in London to Judy Loe, a stage and television actress, and Richard Beckinsale, a television actor who died in 1979 at the age of 31. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Beckinsale's paternal great- grandfather was Burmese, and Beckinsale claims that she was "very oriental-looking" as a child.

19. Hogue Grant Grant was born in Hammersmith, London, England to Fynvola Susan MacLean, a teacher, and James Murray Grant, an aspiring artist and carpet salesman who ran a carpet firm. He has an older brother, James. Grant's Scottish great-great- grandfather, Dr. James Stewart, was an assistant to explorer David Livingstone and Grant is also related to William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan.

20. Grant attended Wetherby School, Latymer Upper School, and - on scholarship - New College, Oxford, where he studied English and was a member of the Piers Gaveston Society, a notorious dining club. Before his finals at Oxford, he was set to do a PhD in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute but could not follow through as he failed to attain a first class degree required to win the grant for his doctoral studies

21. How many students want to study there?

22. As a result, we have found out that the most popular celebrities are: - actors-30%; -pop singers-40%; -sportsmen-20%; -political leaders- 10%.

23. Resources : http://www.oxforddnb.com http://www.oxfordarchives.org.uk http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/history. http://www.oua.ox.ac.uk/history http://www.oxfordjournals.org