Tuesday, April 29, 2025

TEXT TYPE - 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 - Biography Time line
  • Read the Fred Hollows Biography and complete the timeline  from the biographical text. Do not forget to put the years in chronological order on the left and events on the right (not complete sentences)
  • Read a Biography of a famous Australian from a website and complete the timeline as above

TASK 2: 
Turning points and Achievements (BIO)

  • Read Nelson Mandela's Biography and identify the turning points and achievements. List them in two groups and check with your classmate. When you finish we will have an open class discussion.
  • Read a biography of your choice and identify the turning points and achievements as above.





TASK 3 - Stephen Hawking BIO
  • Read the biography
  • Put the correct verbs
  • Match the vocabulary
  • Answer T / F questions



TASK 4 - Biography of Hedi Lamarr
  • Read the BIO
  • Order the events
  • Answer True / False questions


TASK 5 - Biography of Kilian JORNET
  • Complete the given tasks



TASK 6 - Past Simple vs Past Perfect
  • Watch the video
  • Complete exercises 1 and 2



TASK 7 - Types of sentences

  • Watch the video for different 
       sentence structures


EXTRA PRACTICE

Dear Students, Some grammar and essay practice  has been embedded in the blog  for your reference. IELTS Model essays might be a good  pract...