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Lesson 3

A Show

Project work - A show

1. Your school wants to put on a show at
the end of term. The theme is ‘Famous
people in history’. The show is called
‘That was his/her life'.
Your teacher will divide the class into
groups of four. As a group, decide
which person to have the show on;
why he/she became famous, what were
his/her talents, his/her special skills.

You might need to know:
- where the person was born;
- where the person lived as a child;
- where the person studied;
- what the person was like as a young man/woman;
- what kinds of things the person did which make him or her different
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2. Decide on different areas of responsibility for each member of the group:
Student A can be responsible for collecting pictures and visuals and arranging the artwork.
Student B can be responsible for finding out about the person when they were young.
Student C can find out what great things the person did.
Student D can be responsible for presenting the information to the class.
Εικόνα Each group will present their report and the class members with the teacher will decide on which is the most interesting and well presented.

Use the fact file below to help you collect information about the person:
1. Full name ____________________
2. Place of birth ____________________
3. Childhood ____________________
4. Interests ____________________
5. Deeds ____________________

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Self-evaluation

Activity A

Use the Past tense of the verbs on the left and match them with the nouns on the right to make phrases.
build
feed
save
make
take
ask
catch
spend
pay
care of
their respects
pneumonia
her life
lives
the hungry
centres
a difference
for permission
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Activity B

Write a question (Q) for each of the following answers (A).
1. Q. _________________________________________
A. Maria? She grew up in Bucharest.

2. Q. _________________________________________
A. Yes, I think she did have a pet when she wasyoung.

3. Q. _________________________________________
A. She left her village at the age of fifteen.

4. Q. _________________________________________
A. She became famous because she gave her life to the poor.

5. Q. _________________________________________
A. She died in a plane crash.
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Activity C

Decide on a historical film and report five differences between the film and the real facts. Ask your family members, friends and teachers in other subjects to help you. Also, you can find information about such differences on the internet site http://www.libraryspot.com/features/historyinfilm.html.

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Self-evaluation

1. .....................................................................................................
2. .....................................................................................................
3. .....................................................................................................
4. .....................................................................................................
5. .....................................................................................................
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Activity D

Go on line to the internet site mentioned in Activity C and find the following information for the film Spartacus.
Stars
Director
Year of release
Producer
3 main Roman characters
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Activity E

Read the text about Gandhi and put the verbs in parentheses into the correct past form.
Mahatma Gandhi 1.(be) ………… a political and spiritual leader of India. He 2.(want) ………… India to be free from England and he 3.(begin ) ………… his campaign for India's freedom when he 4.(return) ………… from South Africa. Throughout his life he 5.(teach) ………… his followers that violence is wrong. He 6.(refuse) ………… to fight even when the British beat him on the ground. He was a student of Hindu philosophy and 7.(live) ………… a simple life. He 8.(make) ………… his own clothes and lived on a simple diet. He 9.(wear) ………… only the loincloth and shawl of the poorest members of society. He 10.(eat) ………… vegetables, fruit and goat's milk. On 30th January 1948, he 11.(die) ………… from a gunshot by a Hindu radical. Εικόνα

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Now tick how well you can do the following:

  With difficulty Quite well Easily
✓ I can read a text and recognize time words
or the way it is organized
✓ I can listen to understand facts in a historical text
✓ I can talk about different historical characters and about the kind of things they did to help people
✓ I can write sentences using the Past Simple
or a short report from data on a graph