People´s lives

Dear students,

In today's session, you'll  read about biographies,look for personal information about different people, and also  collaboratively write about an important person who does not exist... at least not yet.

But first of all ... Let´s read about what a biography is.

A biography or simply bio is a detailed description or account of a person's life. It entails more than basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death) - a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or résumé, a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality                                                                                      Taken from Wikipedia Activity 1 Answer the following question: What is the difference between a biography and a CV?

There are different kinds of biographies. Graphic biographies use drawings to make the story even more appealing to the reader.

Examples:

Activity 2. Class work. Must be done during the lab

1. Choose one of the people below to write about. Do research into his or her life , use the ideas shown on graphic biographies organizers above, or look for some other you like best to prepare his/her Bio, write it in your notebook.

Remember that it is not a copy-paste activity: you are requested to use your own language.

1. Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Catholic missionary nun / charity worker.
2. Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft
3. Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch artist
4. Carlo de Gavardo ( 1969- 2015) Chilean motorcyclist.

Consider the following aspects among others:

While you're reading, take notes on the following aspects:

a.When/where did this person live?
b. Why is/was this person important  ?
c. Choose one of his/her/its quotes, state it in the form of reported speech and explain why this quote called your attention.

Reported Speech:

For you to have in mind:

If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on whether you want to transform a statement, question or request.

Statements

When transforming statements, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns
• present tense verbs (3rd person singular)
• place and time expressions
• tenses (backshift)

Type	Example
direct speech	“I speak English.”
reported speech (no backshift)	He says that he speaks English.
reported speech (backshift)	He said that he spoke English.

Questions

When transforming questions, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns
• present tense verbs (3rd person singular)
• place and time expressions
• tenses (backshift)

Also note that you have to:

• transform the question into an indirect question
• use the interrogative or if / whether

Type		Example
with interrogative	direct speech	“Why don’t you speak English?”
	reported speech	He asked me why I didn’t speak English.
without interrogative	direct speech	“Do you speak English?”
	reported speech	He asked me whether / if I spoke English.

Requests

When transforming questions, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns
• place and time expressions

Type	Example
direct speech	“Carol, speak English.“
reported speech	He told Carol to speak English.

Optional Personal work: At home, if you want, you can practice a little bit more about reported speech. For that go to: 

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech

Activity 3. Assignment

Team up with two or three other classmates. As a team, you have to undertake a mission: create one person to change the history of our world. This person lived in the past and was able to cause a major impact on mankind history by affecting one of the following cultural areas: education, music, film industry, politics, religion or arts.

First of all, log on your Gmail account and create a document in Google Drive. If you don't have a Gmail account yet, create one. The idea is to share what you do.

Once you have created your account, start working on the mission.  

Instructions:

As a team, write a detailed biography for the person you’ve made up.

Your biography should include the next four elements. While you write them in the biography number them to make it easier for me to grade it, please.

1. a. When/where did this person live?

    b. What was she/he like?

    c. How and when did she/he die?

2. What were the major events in her/his life as a child, teenager and adult?

3. Why was she/he/it  important?

4. What challenges did she/he/it overcome?

Each member of the group should be assigned and be responsible for writing one element AND editing the text. 

The final product should consist of at least 4 paragraphs, one for each element, and each paragraph should have a minimum of 5 sentences. 

Use your compu tools to check orthography and grammar. Also, do proof reading among the members of the group.

Finally, edit the final biography working collaboratively as a group, and then each one of you must write it in his/her own notebook and one of you must email  it to me. In the subject of the email please indicate your names and the Section you belong to. ( Mrs. Vulcano or Mr. Benavides)

 My email address is:

professor.maller.ust@gmail.com

The deadline for this assignment ( the email)is Thursday 27th at 12 noon.

Now... enjoy the following  song.

In your opinion, what is the meaning of the verse  "I was born to stand tall" in the song? Write a brief paragraph about this in your developing notebook in the journal´s part.