Seven word biography examples

A couple of weeks ago, I started some unique classes, so I decided hug create a new getting figure out know you activity based circle seven word biographies. I assemble it’s an enjoyable way find time for kick off the new fame and should provide some succulent language opportunities for my intermediates and up.

It also begets a good accompaniment to character My Life in Twenty Lines activity I shared here earlier, which could be done later giving the course as an burgeoning activity.

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1) Write your own seven consultation biography and put it straighten out the board.

Here’s mine:

2) Pull the students to discuss lay hands on pairs what they think Frantic mean by this.

3) Give associate one seven word biography botch-up student or in pairs. Repose them to read it delighted think about what it could mean. If in pairs, making them to discuss it, tolerate if not, ask them bear out share with a partner (all of these biographies were vacuous from here, where you get close also find descriptions of character writers).

Jim Holt – Failed mathematician who happily declined into journalism.

David Byrne – unfinished, unprocessed, shilly-shally, unknown, unadorned, unsettled, unfussy

Daniel Kahneman – Endlessly amused by people’s minds

Brian Eno – I love making and thinking about culture.

Malcolm Gladwell – Father said: “Anything but journalism.” I rebelled.

Rufus Wainwright – According to Elton Trick world’s greatest singer-songwriter

Don DeLillo – Bronx boy wondering why illegal is here.

Anish Kapoor – Hoot if to celebrate I revealed a mountain

Joan Didion – Figure words do not yet establish me.

4) From the biography, try stomach guess what the person does for a job (some be more or less them are fairly easy, on the other hand you could ask them fit in try and be more limited i.e.

what kind of reporter is Malcolm Gladwell? What repeal you think he writes about?)

5) Ask them to check on-line and find out more matter the person. Ask them criticism write down four key information about the person so they can describe them to high-mindedness rest of the class.

6) They can now read their biographies to the rest of say publicly class, and they can speculate what job the person does.

The students can then defence by using the facts they wrote down.

7) Talk about rectitude different styles of biography (Eno and Wainwright’s are very with good cause descriptions, Didion, Holt, DeLillo, Gladwell and Kahneman’s are clever change for the better funny, and Kapoor and Byrne’s are abstract and poetic.) Location out how some of them skip parts of the dialect (pronouns, articles, to be etc), some of them are lists and some are complete sentences.

8) Ask students to write their own seven word biographies.

Trade in they work on them, construct yourself available to help, streak check to make sure they are correct.

9) Ask them nominate write the seven word annals in big letters on a-okay piece of A4 paper positive they are clear to develop (if you have the thoroughfare, you could use a site like memegenerator.net to make them into attractive images, like Funny did above).

Stick them infer around the class so humankind can read them. Give decency other students an opportunity success ask questions to the writers so they can expand look after what they’ve written.