TASK 3:  Look through the Famous People Biographies Lessons 

•                 Choose a famous person
•                 Listen and read the biography text
•                 Do the vocabulary, phrase match and gap-filling activities

                                Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He has started the software enormous Microsoft and transferred it into the biggest software company in the world. As a result of this making him to become the richest person on earth.
He was interested in electronics since he was young man. He studied about a small technology company in 1975 and he called to ask if they were interested in his computer programmes. 
Later on, he reached agreement with IBM and placed Microsoft's windows on IBM computers, so this made Microsoft coming into IT industry. He was responsible for Microsoft from 1975 to 2006. He thought that computer could help people everyday life, so he worked hard to make his dream come true and invented many products which are used by people everyday. 
He retired from being Microsoft CEO on June 2008. Nowadays, he fills up his time with his wife. Moreover, he and his wife do the charity jobs by giving their money to the world that the governments don't pay attention to. For this reason, he was named "Flower Fly".

• Read a Biography of a famous Australian from Koori History and do the timeline

• Read some biographies and do the cloze activities

Fred Maynard 

Timeline

• On 4 July 1879                        He was born.
• 1884                                        His mother died and he and his sister were raised with strict                                                          discipline.
• 1914                                        He became a wharf labourer and active member of the waterside                                                  workers.
• In the early 1920s                   He made public protest against the attack on Aborigine's right.
• Early in 1925                          He and other helping Aboriginal families headed to rescue their                                                   own children.   
• 1925                                        He lunched the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association.
• On 14 June 1928                    He married with Methodist forms Minnie Critchley. 
• 1930s                                      He had injury on the dock and it was difficult for him to work. 
• On 9 September 1946            He was died by diabetes mellitus.  

                            John Adam: Cloze Activity 

1. second          2. Jefferson        3. farmer          4. Harvard           5. lawyer           6. signers                7. Independence         8. terms            9. Washington          10. 1797              11.White House             12. unpopular          13. speech         14. citizen            15. son             16. sixth          17. July            18. Thomas            19. written             20. President                                                    

Timeline: Martin Luther King

• 1929                            He was born
• 1955                            He was involved in fighting racial injustice
• 1950s to 1960s            He was the leader of the Civil Rights Movements against racism 
• 1963                            He was named Time Magazine's Man of the year 
• 1964                            He received the Nobel Peace Prize
•  1968                           He was supporting striking sanitation workers
• 4 April 1968                He was shot dead         

Nelson Mandela

Turning Points:

•  Aware of the unjust nature of South African Society.
•  Became involved in politics.
• Had to resign from the ANC and work underground.
• In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 Black South African, as result of this he started to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK).
• Had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island Prison.
• Mandela’s release in 1990.
• Lost his son.

Achievements:

• Was able to finish his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
•  Opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 
• Conducted their own defence and they eventually proved to be victorious.
•  Helped to keep other Men’s spirits high and never compromised his political principles when offered early release.
• On 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999. 
• Has received many prestigious awards. 
• Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly with F.W. De Klerk.

 Cambridge English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy. The first section on Past and present is free.(If you want to do other tenses in this app, you need to buy it.) Do the 5 exercises in Unit 6 (Past Continuous), then write a paragraph of 8 lines to say:

• how useful this was for learning English and why
• how easy the app was to use 
• how interesting the app was 
• if you would use the app again

The 5 exercises in Unit 6 is easy for me, so I don't like to use it again. I would like to learn something hard a bit to challenge myself and train my brain to think. However, this Unit  is useful for the people learning English for the beginner because it has lessons to explain and has also easy exercises to do.

1. British Council Learn English. Some parts of this app are free. Download the Professionals Podcasts series 1 then listen to Episode 3, an interview between two students talking about genetically modified food. Listen to the interview and answer the 6 questions in the exercise. After that, write a paragraph of 8 lines to say

• how useful this was for learning English and why
• how easy the app was to use 
• how interesting the app was 
• if you would use the app again 

1. Frank thinks Ann has been influenced by the newspapers. True
2. Frank thinks non-GM foods are safer than GM foods.False
3. Scientists have worked out a way of introducing a vaccine into bananas. True
4. Ann thinks food companies will make money out of feeding poor countries. True
5. Frank thinks Ann is being negative. True
6. Ann is worried about guinea pigs becoming extinct. False

This app is useful  for  learning  English because it helps  to improve listening skill and reading skill. It is easy to listen because they speak with clear pronunciation and can help  the students to pronounce some word correctly by copy them. Also, it has subtitle to help students while they are talking. More over, it has exercise to test your listening. It is so interesting because it has many listen series and all series have many episodes.Every episodes have languages that people use everyday  , workplace and include some new words  as well. I would use it again and I will explore another episodes.