READING A BIOGRAPHY

Sometimes, a biography describes a person's life from birth to death. At other times, the writer concentrates on a particular period in a person's life. We will be reading biographies of famous Australians and other people. We will be practising completing a time line, making notes of key points as events, turning points and achievements.

Assessment Task - Reading a Biography of a Famous Person


TASK 1:

Turning points and Achievements (BIO)

• Read Nelson Mandela's Biography and identify the turning points and achievements. List them in two groups in one new post in your blog. When you finish we will have an open class discussion

            

TASK 2:

• Read a Biography of a famous Australian from Koori History and do the timeline

• Read some biographies and do the cloze activities

TASK 3:  Look through the Famous People Biographies Lessons 

•                 Choose a famous person
•                 Listen and read the biography text
•                 Do the vocabulary, phrase match and gap-filling activities

Technology and Learning Task

From the store in your smart phone, download these two free apps. Use the apps then evaluate their usefulness in learning English.
1. British Council Learn English. Some parts of this app are free. Download the Professionals Podcasts series 1 then listen to Episode 3, an interview between two students talking about genetically modified food. Listen to the interview and answer the 6 questions in the exercise. After that, write a paragraph of 8 lines to say

• how useful this was for learning English and why
• how easy the app was to use 
• how interesting the app was 
• if you would use the app again 

2. Cambridge English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy. The first section on Past and present is free.(If you want to do other tenses in this app, you need to buy it.) Do the 5 exercises in Unit 6 (Past Continuous), then write a paragraph of 8 lines to say:

• how useful this was for learning English and why
• how easy the app was to use 
• how interesting the app was 
• if you would use the app again