Simple past biographies

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Past Simple grammar presentation following patterns. (biographies)

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Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. Will Smith started his career as part of the pop-rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just Don't Understand". Smith was a charismatic and energetic performer, and in 1990 the NBC television network signed him up and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of BelAir, around him. Smith began a successful movie career near the show's end with Bad Boys (1995).

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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress.

She was born Catherine Jones and hails from Mumbles, Wales. Her stage career began in childhood. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was appearing in Forty-Second Street in the West End. Once the show closed, Catherine travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

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Nadia Comaneci (full name Nadia Elena Comaneci) was born on November 12, 1961 in Onesti, Romania. She is a Romanian gymnast who won five Olympic medals being considered one of the world's greatest gymnasts.She competed for the first time in the national championship in 1970 for her town's team and soon after this she started to work with the great coach Bella Karolyi and his wife Martha. At the age of 13 she won at the European championship in Norway in 1970 3 gold medals and one silver. In the same year Associated Press called her "the sport-woman of the year in Romania". In 1976 she became at the Summer Olympic Games in Quebec Canada a very big star. Nadia Comaneci succeed to obtain 6 times the best mark:10 (first in the history of gymnastic) and won 3 gold medals, 1 silver and a bronze one. When she came back in Romania was called "Hero of the Socialistic Labor", and was the youngest person who got that distinction.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was a Nobel Laureate Baptist minister and African American civil rights activist. He is one of the most significant leaders in U.S. history and in the modern history of nonviolence, and is considered a hero, peacemaker and martyr, Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts degree (in Sociology) in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1951. He received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955.

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• Topic: Biographies  • Competence: Writing about one’s and

other’s lives and experiences  • Objective of the lesson: enable

students to express personal and people’s lives and experiences in the past.

 

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• Model 1: • Orally the teacher provides part of his /her past experiences

about his/her life.

I was born in Monterrey, N.L. 44 years ago. I studied at the American School Foundation of Monterrey, we had lots of classrooms, football fields and a big science lab. I moved to Pachuca and lived in San Lunes a beautiful place. I attended Secondary at Lestonnac School, then my high school was at Prepa 1. I studied my degree in English Language Teaching at UAEH and had wonderful classmates and teachers . I took a very interesting course last June.

• Model 2

Students are asked to read individually the examples provided.

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• Knowledge: • I was born in Monterrey, N.L. 44 years ago.• Will Smith started his career as part of the pop-

rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.• I attended Secondary at Lestonnac School.• Catherine travelled to France, where she received

the lead role.• I took a very interesting course last June.• Nadia Comaneci succeed to obtain 6 times the

best mark 10.• . He received his Ph.D. in systematic theology

from Boston University in 1955.

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• 2. Use of the language structure: • Information about simple past: It is used to talk about actions or

situations that started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

• 3. Simple past•  

• 4 Focus on language structure

FORM

VERB + ed or irregular verbs

• 5 Homework: Examples of past sentences

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Practice:

1. Writing sentences in past simple

In class

2. Write a short biography of a famous personwww.biography.com/

Homework

3. Talk about their past experiences

In class/pair work

4. Report others classmate’s experiences

In class

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• Evaluation • Talk about some of your past experiences• Marking criteria: Holistic

3) Complete understanding with appropriate vocabulary and few, if any, circumlocutions.

2) Meaning understood despite occasional inappropriate vocabulary or circumlocutions.

1) Meaning not fully clear or ambiguous because of restricted/inappropriate vocabulary

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• Write about the experiences of others, emphasize on the most interesting and exciting experiences she/he had

• Marking Criteria: Analytic

6. Few or any noticeable error of grammar or word order. 5. Some errors of grammar or word order which do not,

however, interfere with comprehension. 4. Errors of grammar or word order fairly frequent, occasional

re-reading necessary for full comprehension. 3. Error of grammar or word order frequent, efforts of

interpretation sometimes required on the reader's part.2. Errors of grammar or word order very frequent, reader often

has to rely on interpretation.1. Errors of grammar or word order so severe as to make

comprehension virtually impossible.

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• Task completion   3 - Addresses the writing task effectively,

with appropriate vocabulary2 - Some parts of the writing task are not

addressed, some errors in grammar structure

1 - Addresses only slight parts of the task, Errors in spelling or punctuation so frequent that reader must often rely on own interpretation