Biographies People & Entertainment Biographies; Literature; family; nationalities Intro II Report on people ; Describe. Prepositions; Reinforcing family, pronouns, nationalities Wikipedia Karina M Torres Pictures in color; A4 Show pics to Ss and Ask them to identify the authors What do they have in common? Ea: They are all writers What do you know about them? Coelho is Brazilian; García Márquez is from Colombia. Hand out text and chart and ask Ss to fill out the chart. Ask Ss to choose the correct preposition. Students organize information from chart to summarize the text. Have you ever read any books by these authors? Who do you admire? Can you tell us something about that person? 1
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Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. On his father's side, his grandfather was a prominent liberal intellectual and one of the first authors to write a novel with an expressly Indian theme. Thanks to his grandfather's extensive library, Paz came into early contact with literature. Like his grandfather, his father was also an active political journalist who, together with other progressive intellectuals, joined the agrarian uprisings led by Emiliano Zapata. Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome* on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist. The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. Coelho wrote song lyrics for many famous performers in Brazilian music, such as Elis Regina and Rita Lee. Yet his most well known work has been done with Raul Seixas. Together they wrote such successes as Eu nasci há dez mil anos atrás (I was born ten thousand years ago), Gita and Al Capone, amongst other 60 songs. 3
Fill out the chart with the information about each author Gabriel García Márquez Octavio Paz Paolo Coelho Place of birth Date of birth Studies Work Family Other 4
Choose the correct preposition 1. Gabriel García Márquez was born in/on 1928 at/in the small town of Aracataca, situated in/on a tropical region of northern Colombia, between/near the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at/to the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to/at read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome* on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad in/on Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist. 2. The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in/on the city of/from Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to/at literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. Coelho wrote song lyrics for/from many famous performers in Brazilian music, such as Elis Regina and Rita Lee. Yet his most well known work has been done with Raul Seixas. Together they wrote such successes as Eu nasci há dez mil anos atrás (I was born ten thousand years ago), Gita and Al Capone, among/ between other 60 songs. 3. Octavio Paz was born at/in 1914 in Mexico City. On/at his father's side, his grandfather was a prominent liberal intellectual and one of the first authors to/ for write a novel with an expressly Indian theme. Thanks to/ with his grandfather's extensive library, Paz came into early contact with literature. Like his grandfather, his father was also an active political journalist who, together with other progressive intellectuals, joined the agrarian uprisings led by Emiliano Zapata. 5