SUBJECT INGLÉS COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA

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3° READING A LIFE STORY
N° 13 Elfri Palacios V

LANGUAGE GOAL Reading a life story. Asking about past events.

READING A LIFE STORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozeyq8x1S4

Match:

ELEMENTS OF A BIOGRAPHY
1- NAME/SURNAME A- He loves sports
FAMOUS FOR B- In 2008, he became the fastest man in
2- OCCUPATION the world breaking three world records
at the Olympic Games.
3- AGE(alive or dead) C- He was born in Trelawney, Jamaica on
21st August 1986.
4- DATE OF BIRTH D- He is 34 years old.
PLACE OF BIRTH E- He is a professional athlete
F- Usain Bolt is the fastest sprinter in the
5- CHILDHOOD/
world and nine-time Olympic gold-medal
FAMILY
winner.
6- EDUCATION/ G- When he was a boy, he played cricket
CAREER and competed in the high jump too. Once
7- HOBBIES/ he tried sprinting, he never stopped
INTERESTS running.

Read the life story

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa in 1936. He is a

Peruvian writer. One of the most important novelist in Latin
America. He wrote many novels that reflect Peruvian society. He
enrolled in San Marcos University in 1953. He married Julia
Urquidi in 1955. He divorced in 1964. A year later he married
again
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010…
Decide if it is true (T) or false (F)
1. Mario enrolled in San Marcos University at the age of 29. (F)
2. He married twice. (V)
3. At the age of 74 he won a Nobel Prize. (V)
4. He married Julia at the age of 21. (F)

Answer the following questions

1. Where was Mario Vargas Llosa born?
- He was born in 1936.
2. What did he write?
- He wrote many novels that reflect Peruvian society.
3. Where did he attend to study higher education?
- He studied at the University of San Marcos.
4. When did he get marry by the second time?
- He got married in 1965.
5. Who was his first wife?
- His first wife was Julia Urquidi.
6. Which was his best achievement?
- His greatest achievement of his was winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Put the following sentences into the past simple

run publish study marry

a) Mario Vargas Llosa STUDIED at Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima.

b) He MARRIED Patricia Llosa in 1965.
c) He PUBLISHED Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter” in 1977.
d) He RAN for the presidency of Peru in 1990.

Change these sentences into the negative form.

a. Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Spain.

b. He lived in Peru all his life.
c. He wrote “Cien Años de Soledad”.
d. Mario won the Nobel Prize last year.

A) Mario Vargas Llosa was not born in Spain.

B) He did not live in Peru all his life of him.
C) He did not write "Cien Años de Soledad".
D) Mario did not win the Nobel Prize last year.
Read the sentences. Put them in order. Write the correct number in the box

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6

Complete the sentences with the verbs in bold in Vallejo’s exercise.

a) Ricardo Palma PUBLISHED” Tradiciones” from 1872 to 1910, in a series of
volumes.
b) Pedro Suarez Vertiz WAS BORN on February 13, 1969.
c) Dina Paucar STARTED to sing at the age 14.
d) Gianmarco GREW UP listening to his father’s songs.
e) Kina Malpartida’s father DIED in an accident.
f) Kina WENT to Australia when she ARRIVE AT 19.
Fill in the simple past tense of the verb

Frida Kahlo is a hero to many people in Mexico.

She (be) WAS a great artist. She (be) WAS
Born in Mexico in 1907, -she (marry) MARRIED Diego Rivera, another
Artist, but they (have, not) DIDN’T HAVE Any children.
She (paint) PAINTED many strange and beautiful pictures, even though
She (study, not) DIDN’T STUDY art. She (use) USED many ideas from Mexican
culture in her Paintings. She (be) WAS Also very brave, After a terrible
accident in 1925, her health (be, not) DIDN’T BE very good, but she (work)
WORKED
very hard and (create) CREATED some of the most beautiful art in the world.
 Write the verbs in the life stories in the right group

REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS

BASE HAVE CAME WON WRITER BE BEGIN COME BUY
FORM
PAST CREATED WORKED PAINTED MARRIED WENT LEFT BORN DIED
TENSE

Complete the sentences with the verb in the past tense.

become die discover walk make speak

What happened in …

Armstrong WALKED on the Elizabeth II MADE Queen of England Elvis BECAME his first record
moon.

Bell SPOKE the first words on the Columbus DISCOVERED America

telephone Bolivar DIED in Colombia.

Reading comprehension

https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Biogr
aphies/Thomas_Edison_pp1549235vx

Challenge: Imagine that you are going to build a wax museum of the bicentennial of Peru.
mention 4 famous Peruvian people to be in your museum and write a short biography of two
of them. (place and date of birth, what they did To be in your museum. Add a picture of
each one.

Bicentennial Museum

I think that in that wax museum there would be Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Vallejo, José
Maria Arguedas, Ciro Alegría.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Born in Arequipa on March 28, 1936, he is a Peruvian

writer, politician and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 2010. He studied Literature and Law at
the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and
began to collaborate professionally in newspapers and
magazines, being editor of the Composition Notebooks
and the Literatura magazine.

I chose Mario Vargas LLosa to be

there because he has many good
works and is a good writer, and maybe
he would have been interested in
going there.

CESAR VALLEJO

César Abraham Vallejo, the greatest national poet, was born

in a small northern mountain town called Santiago de Chuco
in 1892, but died far from his homeland, on Good Friday in
1938, in the city of Paris. His parents were Francisco Vallejo
and María de los Santos Mendoza. He had ten siblings.

He would be in the museum because he likes to

experience various things like when he chose poetry, since
there he was experimenting with new techniques and
styles of literature.