Real People Stories


This is an activity which is based on the real life stories of some well known people. It involves reading, verb tenses, a lot of discussion and information.


Task 1 
Answer the following Questions.
  • Can you guess who the people are from the word cloud below?
  • Choose some of the people mentioned in the world cloud and say what you know about them?
  • Is there anything that these people have in common?


Task 2
Watch this slide show and answer the questions.
 

Task 3

“You kind of assume that great geniuses [are] like Mozart,” Fiegerman says. But few successful people were child prodigies, and prodigies don’t necessarily find success. Most people don’t stick to it.”  (Smithsonian Mag by Amy Crawford 2013)

Now go to Task 4