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UFTM. English Language VI – Valeska Virgínia Souza. Microteaching: Josiane Amaral de Amorim. Do you know what biography means?. According to the dictionary, a biography is the description or history of a person’s life.

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  1. UFTM English Language VI – Valeska Virgínia Souza Microteaching: Josiane Amaral de Amorim

  2. Do you know what biography means? • According to the dictionary, a biography is the description or history of a person’s life. • For Arnoldo Momigliano, a biography is any work, which can be oral or writtten and that talks about an individual’s life.

  3. According to Carino, a biography arouses the interest, caused by the description of a trajectory. Besides, there is a historical and social role played by biographies. This is because at the same time that they can make readers know, compliment, become aware of the one being described, it can, on the other hand, demoralize or criticize him/her. Biographies provide reflexibility and the individual can or not mirror the examples to be followed.

  4. Characteristics of biographies • It is a descriptive narration; • It is a short text with easy language; • There are just basic and fundamental aspects about the person’s life: • Name; • Date of birth; • Profession; • Facts about his/her job; • When the person died: place,date and reason of death, etc.

  5. Example: Ayrton Senna da Silva Motor racing driver, was born March 21, 1960 in São Paulo, Brazil. He began racing karts when he was four, moved to Formula Three racing in Britain in 1981, and joined a Formula One team in 1984. In a carreer, marked by agressive competitiveness and rivalry (especially with Alain Prost), he became World Formula One Champion 1988, 1990, and 1991, and had 41 Grand Prix Victories (second only to Alain Prost). He also built up a major business in São Paulo, marketing a range of Senna products. He was killed (May 1) during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

  6. Connections: adverbs, adverbial phrases: In São Paulo; Brazil; When; in 1984; world formula one champion; 1988, 1990 and 1991; the 1994; San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. • Anaphora (nominal cohesion): Ayrton Senna da Silva; “Motor racing driver”; and “He”(pronoun used to retake the biography name in each introduction by new element). • Verbs in the past (born, was, joined, marked, became, built, was killed) • Text is written in a chronological order

  7. Activity proposal: Born: Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown)in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England Died: 23 April 1616 (aged 52)in Stratford-upon-Avon, England Occupation: playwright, poet, actor Main works: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Dream of a summer night, Macbeth, King Lear, etc. Literary genre: tragedy, drama, comedy, poetry and romance Literary movement: English Renaissance Theatre Spouse(s): Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616) Children: Susanna Hall, Hamnet, Judith Relative(s): John Shakespeare (father) Mary Sakespeare (mother) • Write a short biography according to the information below:

  8. Reference: • ALONSO, Talitha. Biografias em inglês: uma abordagem do gênero sob a visão sócio-interacionista. Revista ao pé da letra. Volume 8, 2006.

  9. Thank you

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