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3.2 WRITING WORKSHOP. A DRAFT ABOUT A BIOGRAPHY

STEP 1. Choose an English-speaking person from a list given or freely.

STEP 2.

A) Look at the questions below en B (mostly taken from questions in exer. 1 - Writing planon page 94 in your students book)

B) Answer them with information in English written pages on Internet or wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).

1. What was his or her job?2. Where was the person born?3. Where did the person live?4. What were his/her famous works?

(or prizes got or most important things done?)

5. Where can you see his/her works now?/What is his/her influence in sports or politics?6. What is your favourite work (if he is an artist)?

STEP 3. Now fill in the following table with the information from Internet/wikipedia.

Paragraph 1

Introduction: job, date and place of birth

Paragraph 2

Life and famous works

Paragraph 3

Places or things you can see now in relation

to this person (books written, pictures

painted etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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STEP 4. Now transform the information of the table into a text USING time connectors, verbs in the past.

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STEP 5. When you finish, CHECK AND CORRECT YOUR writing your draft ASKING YOURSELF:

1. Did you use verbs in the past? Are they correct? Check the list in your text book.2. Did you use a variety of time connectors and time expressions?3. Do you write a subject (I, you, me, Peter etc.) in every sentence?

STEP 6. FINAL VERSION. After checking and correcting, write your final version.

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