1. Title: Famous people from California.2. Introduction: You have received an email from the offices of your local newspaper asking you to conduct interviews with famous Californians (dead or alive) in order to write their biographies. Are you imagining yet?
3. The task: Using the Internet you have to discover interesting facts about your chosen celebrity. You have to find out five pieces of information in relation to the Californian you choose and you will use that in formation to write his/ her biography. You will act out an interview with that person in front of an audience.
4. Process:
● Roles:- Students will work in pairs when they collect the information from the websites and when they role play the interview. One of them is the celebrity and the other the journalist. However, they write their biography individually.
● Steps:- In the studio:
1. Each pair has to choose between these Californian personalities:
ACTORS
Leonardo DiCaprio
Clint Eastwood
AUTHORS
Robert Frost
John Steinbeck
ARTISTS
George Lucas
Walt Disney
2. The students should decide which one is going to be the conductor of the interview and which one the Californian during the representation of the task.
- In the computer room:
3. Visit different websites to answer these questions:
- In the computer room:
3. Visit different websites to answer these questions:
- When was he born?
- Is there any interesting fact or anecdote of his early life?
- What made him famous?
- Has he received any prize or award?
- What can you say about his later life? What is he doing now?
4. Add three questions to complete your interview and your biography.
- Back in the gallery:
5. Use the collected information to prepare individually a biography following the model and to answer the questions for the interview.
7. Role play the interview to the rest of the class.
BIOGRAPHY MODEL:
Robert Redford
Redford was born Charles Burt Robert Redford, Jr. in 1936 in Santa Monica, California. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.
As many famous people he also has had problems with the alcohol. After his graduation he received a baseball scholarship but he lost it due to excessive drinking, possibly fuelled by the death of his mother, which occurred when Redford was 18.
Redford's career, like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York, where an actor could find work both on television on stage. Redford found the property he was looking for in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film made him a bankable star and cemented his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy, and Redford became one of the most popular stars of the 1970s.
5. Resources:
www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/leonardo_di_caprio
www.biography.com/search/article.com
www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/clint_eastwood/index
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.online-literature.com/
http://www.steinberg.org/
http://www.achievement.org/
http://www.biosstars-mx.com/
http://www.justdisney.com/
6. Evaluation:
POOR :( GOOD :) VERY GOOD :D
Presentation:-effectiveness
-structure
-organization
- Back in the gallery:
5. Use the collected information to prepare individually a biography following the model and to answer the questions for the interview.
7. Role play the interview to the rest of the class.
BIOGRAPHY MODEL:
Robert Redford
Redford was born Charles Burt Robert Redford, Jr. in 1936 in Santa Monica, California. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.
As many famous people he also has had problems with the alcohol. After his graduation he received a baseball scholarship but he lost it due to excessive drinking, possibly fuelled by the death of his mother, which occurred when Redford was 18.
Redford's career, like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York, where an actor could find work both on television on stage. Redford found the property he was looking for in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film made him a bankable star and cemented his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy, and Redford became one of the most popular stars of the 1970s.
5. Resources:
www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/leonardo_di_caprio
www.biography.com/search/article.com
www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/clint_eastwood/index
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.online-literature.com/
http://www.steinberg.org/
http://www.achievement.org/
http://www.biosstars-mx.com/
http://www.justdisney.com/
6. Evaluation:
POOR :( GOOD :) VERY GOOD :D
Presentation:-effectiveness
-structure
-organization
Content:-interest of the chosen questions
-clear development
-respect of the task
Language:-clear development
-respect of the task
-accuracy
-fluency
-use of the lexis of the unit.
