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Did you know that...?
1. Match the pictures with the biographies (A-B-C-D).
A) He was born in Liverpool, England in born in October 23, 1940, in Brazil. He
was the son of a minor league soccer
player. He grew up in an extremely poor
1940. He wanted to be an artist. In neighbourhood, where the only
1962 he formed the band “The Beatles” with entertainment for a poor boy was to play
Paul Mcartney, George Harrison and Ringo soccer. He played for his first soccer
Star. He married Yoko Ono, a Japanese girl. team at the age of eleven. Some years
The band divided in 1970. One of the later, Brito took him to Santos where he
greatest albums was “Let It Be”. In 1975 became one of the best of that soccer
John's and Yoko's son, Sean was born. On team. In 1970 he played for Brazil’s World
December 8, 1980. Mark Chapman, a young Cup team and brought the title to the
man, shot John outside his home in New York. team. Then he played for the New York
John died in a police car on the way to the Cosmos of the North American Soccer
hospital. League. In 1977 the Cosmos won the
league championship and finally he
retired after that victory.
B) Edson Arantes Do Nascimento was
Pelé John Lennon Mother
Theresa Steve Jobs
C) He was born in San Francisco in 1955.
D) She was born in Albania in 1910, and died in
He became interested in computers when
1997. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
he was a teenager and attended lessons She became famous all over the world for starting
after school at Hewlett Packard (HP). In the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. She
1974, he got a job as a technician at the began this work in 1950 and for over forty years,
video game maker Atari. He and Steve she looked after the poor, sick, orphaned, and
Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. They dying. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for
developed the Mac. It was the first small her humanitarian work. She decided to become a
computer. He created Oscar-winning nun when she was 12. She arrived in India in 1929
movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding and became a nun two years later. In 1946 she
Nemo’. His name has a connection to received a call from God to leave the convent and
innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, help the poor. She was an international symbol of
iTunes and iPad. His attention to design, charity, visiting many countries to help poor
function and style won him millions of fans. children. After she died, the Pope started the
He died in October 2011, at the age of 56. process to make her a saint.
2. Check your predictions about these famous people.
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3. Look at the verbs in bold in the texts. What do they have in
common?
4. The highlighted verbs in the texts are irregular verbs.
Complete the box below with their corresponding infinitive form. (Go to the list of irregular verbs)
Won
Simple Past Infinitive for
Got
Was
Took
Shot
Became Sim
Grew up Bro
Began Wa
5. Read Karen’s daily routine. Then, turn it
into the past form.
Today is Tuesday. Yesterday, she ...
On Mondays, she gets up at 7 o’clock. She
has a shower and then she has breakfast
with her brother and her little sister. After
breakfast she brushes her teeth, gets dressed
and then she goes to school by bus. The
school starts at 7.30 and finishes at 12.00.
She gets home at 1.30 and has lunch with
her family. She does her homework and
then plays with some friends in the park. In
the evening she listens to music and
watches her favourite TV programme. She
has dinner at 9 o’clock and phones some
friends. Finally, she goes to sleep at 11.30.
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6. Reading comprehension. Correct the following sentences with information from the
biographies.
a) John Lennon died in his apartment in England.
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b) John formed a band at the age of sixty-two.
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c) Pelé’s father played for an important soccer team.
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d) He played soccer for the first time in 1970.
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e) Apple was the name of the first small computer.
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f) Steve Jobs died in the 20th century.
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g) Steve Jobs had a job at Apple and soon he became its owner.
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h) Mother Teresa became a saint when she died.
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i) She won the Nobel Prize because she worked in a convent.
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