A WRITER OF PURPOSE

NAME: Viracucha Flavio-----7027

DATE 20-January-2021

VOACABULARY
1. Look at the book covers and answer the questions.
1. Who is this novel by, and what does the cover tell you about the author? What do you know about
him?
…the novel is by Grarcia Marquez, he is a very exciting person, I know a lot about the writer

2. Describe the book covers. Which one do you like best?

… The first cover of the book on the left side 100 years of loneliness has a message of loneliness, while the
other cover on the right has a message of hope and optimism
2. Match words from A and B to make expressions for talking about writing and novels. Then listen, and
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A B
a. (an) article
1. book b d e g b. cover
2. newspaper a e c. a novel
3. publish c a d. prize
4. short f e. review
f. a short story
g. title
LISTENING 1
3. Listen to an interview with a biographer of Gabriel García Márquez and complete the information
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1927 He was born in the river town of Aracataca in Colombia.
1946 He went to university.
1954 He went to Europe.
1959 He got married.
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude was published.
1982 He received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1985 Love in the Time of Cholera was published.
2014 He died

4. Listen again and complete the sentences.

1. He only studied law to please …his fathers………………..
2. He went to Europe to work as a ……journalist………….

3. He had this idea and then immediately drove back home to……..worked………..

4. They had to sell their car to ………other family………….

5. It took him eighteen months to …publish the job…….……., and they had to borrow money to ……|
friend of family….…….
6. In 1982, he traveled to Norway to …receive……….…….. the ……premio novel….……. for ……

literature….…….

GRAMMAR
5. Look at the table. What are the questions for sentences 2 and 3?

2 …Why did he go to university? He went to university to study law.

3 …Why do you read novels?…. I read novels to relax.

LISTENING 2
6. Look to the biographer talking about One Hundred Years of Solitude and complete the
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1. García Márquez used the novel to …write about history ……………….. of Colombia.
2. …south……America.…………., García Márquez is known as “Gabo”.

3. …in magical realism…..…..……….., supernatural events happen in ordinary situations.

4. In Gabo´s novels, the magical events are very ……strange and funny and interesting …………….

5. Gabo uses these events to …aks questions about…….……. reality.

6. When Gabo was a child, his grandmother talked a lot about ……magical events…….……..

7. Mark the events the biographer mentioned. Listen again and check.

In García Márquez´s novels, supernatural events often take place.

This style of writing is called “magical realism” and García Márquez

often used it in his novels. Here are some examples.

a Flowers fall from the sky. x

b It rains for four years, seven months, and eleven days.
c Ghosts appear to people. x
d A man rises into the sky and disappears.
e A woman rises into the sky and disappears. x
f A man shoots himself in the chest and isn’t hurt at all.
g A man ries into the air after drinking a cup of hot chocolate.