Writing a biography

WRITING A BIOGRAPHY

NELSON MANDELA

Watch the following trailer. What was Mandela's motto?

 APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA

👂LISTENING

Listen to the audio and do the exercises on this link.

👀READING

Read this short biography about Nelson Mandela

🎦MANDELA'S BIOGRAPHY VIDEO: 

you are going to watch a video about Mandela's biography. In pairs, student A and student B have different questions.

MANDELA'S BIOGRAPHY QUESTIONS 

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN
You are going to write a biography of one of your ancestors. Following this worksheet.

Biography

Today you are going to investigate the biography of two people:

Amelia Earhart Biography

Rosa Parks Biography
Rosa Parks Biography 2

ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

 ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

1. TASK instructions to the project

2. OBJECT 

Follow this link to upload your objects to padlet.

3. BIOGRAPHY

In this link you have some examples of a biography, in this case, of Nelson Mandela. Click on the link and do the activities. 

4. EVALUATION

In this link you can see the rubric for the evaluation of your presentation. 

3º ESO ART PRESENTATION

3º ESO SPEAKING 

ARTIST PRESENTATION

Now, you are preparing your next presentation:

1.What? IN PAIRS choose a work of art (choose wisely! tell the teacher your choice). You can find some examples here or in different webpages: 

Here or  here you can find some useful vocabulary to do it. You can surf for more examples.

VIDEO: Check this video for an explanation on how to describe a picture

2. How?: You must use a photo in your presentation but all the information must be on your notes (on a piece of paper). You will be using them when you present your work.

Don´t read the notes all the time, they are just for helping

When you finish, give your notes to the teacher.
 

3. Biography: Follow this link. Answer the questions to help you write the biography. 

DEADLINES:
3ºB: 
Thursday 18th February: Hand in script 
Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th March: presentations

Object Biography Presentation

Prepare the presentation following these points:
1. Description of the object.
2. Biography of the owner of the object.
3. Explain how the object came into the family
4. Explain who gave you the object

5. Explain why the object is important to you or to your family

Biography 3º ESO

👂NAOMI OSAKA AUDIO

👉Naomi Osaka Exercises

ANSWERS
👂DIANE FOSSEY AUDIO

👉Diane Fossey Exercises 
ANSWERS

Influence 2 unit 2 Then and now

Influence 2 Unit 2

THEN AND NOW

🎯Irregular Verbs Games PAST SIMPLE:

a. Irregular verbs hangman

b. Irregular verbs Monkey Island (fill in the gaps)

I

c.Irregular/regular verbs PAST TENSE game

PAST SIMPLE

Word Wheel speaking practice

Past Time Expressions (pdf + exercises)

Past Time Expressions (wordwall)

USED TO

Used to exercise (Test English)

Listen to the song by Gotye "Somebody I used to know"

LISTENING

👉Workbook page 23: A school podcast. Exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Audio Script

👉Workbook page 22 READING: "Blackbeard's Treasure" Audio

VOCABULARY

LIFE EVENTS

Match the words (wordwall)

Complete the text (wordwall)

Complete the text (Liveworksheets)

DESCRIBING OBJECTS

Games to learn English: Choos the sections: STATIONERY, PERSONAL, KITCHEN, HOME

Every day objects (knoword.com)

WRITING

A BIOGRAPHY

Writing a bigography: Nelson Mandela

Speaking Rubric