Starter quiz
- Why could 'The Second World War' not be the subject of a biography?
- it is not in the past
- it is not important
- it is not a person ✓
- it did not affect people
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- Which of these is not a linguistic feature of a biography?
- second person ✓
- third person
- formal tone
- past tense
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- Which sentence is appropriate for use in a biography?
- She didn't really have much training.
- When she began working with chimps, Jane had no formal training. ✓
- Jane had no idea what she was up to at the start.
- You won't believe how unprepared Jane was to start with.
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- Match the types of fronted adverbial to the examples.
- formal fronted adverbial⇔In addition, ✓
- fronted adverbial of time⇔After she left school, ✓
- fronted adverbial of cause⇔As a result, ✓
- Which sentences contain a relative clause?
- Who was Jane Goodall?
- Jane, who always loved animals, longed to go to Africa. ✓
- Jane moved to Tanzania, which is next to Kenya. ✓
- One chimp was very aggressive - Jane wasn't sure which.
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- Which sentence has the brackets placed correctly to show the parenthesis?
- In 1957, Jane moved to Nairobi the (capital of Kenya).
- In 1957, Jane moved to (Nairobi the capital of Kenya).
- In 1957, Jane moved to Nairobi (the capital of Kenya). ✓
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Exit quiz
- Why is research important before we write a biography?
- because we need to form an opinion of the person
- because we need to know factual information about the person ✓
- because we need inspiration for our imaginative ideas about the story
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- Which of these facts link to the theme of Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos?
- His mother died when he was eight.
- The HMS Beagle went around the whole world.
- The crew ate a tortoise in a soup. ✓
- Darwin was excited to see an active volcano. ✓
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What fact is represented by this image from the text map for Charles Darwin's life?- Darwin was born in 1809 into a very wealthy family.
- Darwin's father sent him to university to study medicine.
- Darwin's father was a doctor and his mother had a large family fortune. ✓
- Darwin's mother was a doctor and his father had a large family fortune.
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What fact is represented by this image from the text map for Charles Darwin's life?- The giant tortoises in the Galapagos love soup.
- The crew saw giant tortoises in the Galapagos and they made a soup with them. ✓
- The crew refused to make a soup from the giant tortoises.
- The Galapagos Islands are known for their giant tortoises.
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- Which picture represents this fact? 'Darwin was very excited to visit the Galapagos so he could see an active volcano.'
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4 ✓
- Which of the following might we find in a text map?
- pictures ✓
- words ✓
- sentences
- numbers ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Charles Darwin was a British naturalist known for his contributions to the theory of evolution.
- A biography is a non-fiction text so we must do research to gather factual information.
- A text map can be used to help us learn and remember the key events of someone's life.
- In the text map, pictures represent key events (and a few words and numbers can be used too).
- The more we rehearse a text map out loud, the better we will remember it.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that the purpose of the text map is to learn a particular text word-for-word.
Although text maps can be used in this way, in this case we are trying to learn the series of events; pupils should re-tell the events using simple language, pointing to the relevant picture as they do so.
Keywords
Biography - a non-fiction text written about someone's life
Theme - a central idea that the writer intends the audience to engage deeply with
Text map - a visual representation of a series of events, where pictures represent events
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