BIOGRAPHY

**WRITING A BIOGRAPHY**
====**A biography is a description of a person's life. It should include only important events and information, leaving out minor details.This information is usually ( but not always) presented in chronological order. Remember the structure of a model biography:** ==== ====OPENING **( Paragraph 1): introduces the people and explains what they are famous for.** ==== ====BODY **( Paragraph 2 or 2 and 3) provides information about the people's early life, career and achievements, usually organised chronologically.** ==== ====CLOSING **( Last paragraph): summarizes or talks about the people's latest achievements and includes future goals if known.** ====

**2. Make a list of details about the person.**
====**Make a list of adjectives you want to use and connectors of sequence, result, addition and example.** ==== ====**3. If you write about a person who is still alive, use the present perfect tense to talk about things he/she has done in her/his life.** ====

**GETTING ORGANISED**
====**INTRODUCTION: Write the name of the person, her/ his nationality, when the person was born and why you decided to write about her/him** ==== ====**It doesn't have to be a famous person. You can write about anyone who is important to you or has influenced your life in some way.** ==== ====**Add some interesting details about the person to catch the reader's attention.** ==== ====**BODY: Write the information about the person in chronological order, talk about what the person has done and why you think this person is important.** ====

**Check the spelling and punctuation.**
====**Think about the reader. Will s/he be interested in your introduction? Did you present all the information clearly and coherently?** ====

9. However, he continued his school studies and teachers thought he was extremely clever.
====10.Despite live such a difficult life, Dickens started writing for a newspaper at the age of sixteen. 11.he written short stories as well, with characters that were full of life.12. His books later became popular and he voyaged abroad a lot.====

**REWRITE THE SENTENCES CORRECTLY**
**Read the composition, which contains one grammar or vocabulary error in each sentence. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1 Charles Dickens is one of __the greatest__ novelists in the English language. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2 __He__ wrote about the real world of Victorian England in order to reflect the lives of the poor and __hungry__. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3 Dickens was brought ** __up__ ** in nineteenth- century London. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4 His father was ** __a__ ** clerk in an office. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5. ** There ** were eight children in the family, so consequently, life was hard. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">6.Dicken's father went ** to ** prison when Charles was only eleven because of debt problems. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">7.As a result, Dickens went to work in a factory ** where ** he earned half a euro for ten hours' work a day! <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">8. He never ** forgot ** this experience, and this is reflected in many of his novels, such as " David Copperfield." <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">9. However, he continued his school studies and ** his ** teachers thought he was extremely clever. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">10.Despite** living ** such a difficult life, Dickens started writing for a newspaper at the age of sixteen. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">11.He ** wrote ** short stories as well, with characters that were full of life.12. His books later became popular and he ** travelled ** abroad a lot. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">13. Dickens had ten children, ** so ** his family situation was really hard in later life. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">14 However, he never stopped ** writing ** and travelling. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">15 He ** died ** very suddenly in 1870, and England lost one of its most wee-loved writers.