FAMOUS PEOPLE 
 

Objective: To practice reading for the main idea and 
               supporting details 
Skills:     Reading-Writing-Listening 
Level:      Mixed 
Content:    History, famous people 
Time:       50 minutes 
Preparation: 
            Hardware:  one computer per group of students 
            Software:  a standard word-processor 
            Knowledge: teacher and students--basic word- 
                       processing 
Procedure: 
Pre-computer work: 
            1. Divide students into groups of three. 
            2. Have each group find a biography of a famous person. 
            3. Divide up the biographies and give each student a 
               part. 
            4. Have students read their part of the text and write a 
               short summary of the essential biographical 
               information   Help students with the language and 
               encourage them not to copy from the text. 

Computer-work: 
            1. Students type their summaries on the word- 
               processor.  Tell them to make sure that their 
               summaries are in chronological order. 
            2. When students have finished typing their texts, 
               tell them to prepare comprehension questions on 
               the text. 

Post-computer work: 
             1. Divide students into five teams. 
             2.Have each team read the summary they have 
                written. 
             3. Have the students ask the other groups questions 
                based on the summary. 
             4. Give the first team which answers correctly one 
                point for each question.  The team that gets the 
                highest  point is the winner. 

Evaluation:  10 points 
 
 
 
 

 

                           FAMOUS PEOPLE
 

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           Instructions:  In groups of three, type the summary of
                          the biography of the famous person you
                          have read about.  Then type out five
                          questions based on the summary.
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           Example: 
 

                                MARILYN MONROE
 

                     Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in
           Los Angeles.  She was brought up in twelve different
           foster families.  She acted in several films between
           1953 and 1955 and was named by Italian critics as
           "the best foreign actress of 1958."  Marilyn had an
           unhappy married life.  She died at her home in L.A.
           from an overdose of sleeping pills in August 1962.
 

           Questions:

           1. Where was Marilyn born?

           2. Where did she die?

           3. When did she start her career?

           4. How did she die?

           5. How old was she when she died?
 

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           Now type the summary of the biography of the famous
           person you have chosen and your five questions on
           the computer.
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