Monday, 23 January 2012

Biographies

Hi!

As we're working on biographies in class, your next activity is writing the biography of a famous person. You can choose an actor/actress, a singer, a painter, etc.


Instructions:

  • Look for information
  • Write notes
  • Write 3 paragraphs (Use the text on page 43 as a model)
Bye,

The teacher

12 comments:

  1. Salvador Dalí was born in figueras in gerona in 1904.His most famous was soft watches. He studied at ramon school Muntaner.

    In 1922 Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.in 1928 dali trip to Paris where he met Picasso.

    He died in Figueres in 1989 died due to cardiac arrest

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  2. Watch out! You forgot some capital letters like 'Figueras' or 'Gerona'. You can show us one of his paintings.

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  3. Audrey Hepburn was born on May in 1929 in Brussels. Before the ten years she lived in Holland until his parents separated and moved to London.

    There she began to study dance and drama in Marie Rambert School. in 1952 made ​​his first film as an actor, Holidays in Rome. She also filmed some movies like Breakfast at Tiffany's and alone in the dark.

    Audrey died in Switzerland in 1998 of cancer.

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    1. Very interesting! Some corrections: 'Before she was ten years old', 'In 1952 she made her first film as an actress', 'Audrey died pf cancer in...'.

      Maybe you can show us a video.

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  4. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch painter, one of the leading exponents of postimpresionismo.1 painted 900 paintings and 1,600 drawings. The central figure in his life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support you. . Born on March 30, 1853
    Zundert, Netherlands
    He died on July 29, 1890 (37 years)

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    1. Gonzalo, I think it's copied fron the Internet. It has difficult vocabulary and structures.

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  5. This is Natalia's work:

    J.Robert Oppenheimer was born in 22 of April in 1904. He was a physical.
    Among other things we know as the father of the atomic bomb and as the creator of the Manhattan project.
    He died of a throat cancer in 1967.

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    1. He was born on 22nd April and he was a physicist. We know him as the father of the atomic bomb.

      Maybe you can show us a picture.

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  6. DANI JARQUE by: Jonathan Salgado

    Sportingly known as Dani Jarque. he born in Barcelona, Spain on January 1, 1983. He died in Florence, Italy on August 8, 2009, he was a Spanish football player. The club in the one that developed all his sports career was the Spanish RCD, and his habitual position was that of central defense. Path Jarque started playing in the CF San Baudilio's Cooperative of Llobregat and at the age of 12 it happened to form a part of the low categories of the Spanish RCD. The football player would make début with the first equipment on October 20, 2002, in a party of league before the Recreative one of Huelva. During the following two years it would be alternating subsidiary with the first equipment. It would not be up to the season 2004-2005, and of Michael Ángel Lotina's hand, when Jarque would happen to have card in the principal insole.

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    1. Don't forget different paragraphs. "He was born in Barcelona", "He made his debut with the first team". I don't understand some parts.

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  7. By José Ángel:

    Edson Arantes do Nascimento mejor known as Pelé, is a former Brazilian football player considered by many former players, for various sporting bodies, journalists and the media in general,and much of football fans as the best player in the history of the sport.




    He was elected the best player of the century in a vote by the winners of the Ballon Oro.26 The IFFHS named him the bestplayer in the world and the International Olympic Committeeawarded the title of best sportsman of the century was considered the best XX.27 player in history to a survey conducted by members of the Football Committee of the institution and the subscribers of the FIFA Magazine.28

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