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Lesson 24
Project: A profile book. Part one
Read
Reading some biographies.
In many communities around the world, always there is or there
was a person whom everyone seems to look up. That person has earned peoples respect through courage or
generosity or for attending the needs of the people in a community, a town or a country. Do you know if anyone is
respected in your community or in a close one? What qualities does that person possess?
Mrs. Juanita Atala
A remarkable woman.
She was born in Mexico City. She is a journalist. She also specialized in
simultaneous translation. She has worked for Mexican television as an
announcer for many years. She is also a generous and altruistic person. In
1990 Juanita and some friends founded Ayudemos to help the earthquake
victims. Since that year Ayudemos has worked hard to get money, food and
help for children, adolescents and old people. Juanita has received
numerous national and international awards for her excellent work, effort
and dedication helping people.
Vocabulary:
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Jorge Medina
An excellent teacher.
He was born in Mexico City. He studied to be a teacher and he specialized
in geography. He has taken a lot of courses about education to improve his
knowledge in order to do a good job in his area. At recent he works as an
assistant director at a Secondary School in a small community in the Distrito
Federal. He is a generous, altruistic and a good person. He always takes
care of the students and holds an excellent communication with all of them.
He has helped many students in their academic and personal life by
listened their troubles and giving advices. He has also given courses after
classes to students when they are going to present their exams to join to a
high school. Sometimes he helps poor people giving a job or food. He
hasnt received an award but he has earned respect and admiration.
Vocabulary:
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Adapted from Libro de Ingls 3
Mtra. R. M. Julieta Gutirrez Tlalpa
Telesecundaria, pp. 89-93; SEP.
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5.- ______________________________________________________________________________________
MAURICIO MIRANDA
Mauricio Miranda is a boy from La Paz, Baja California. He is twenty two
years old. He studies biology at University. In 2004, together with some
friends, he founded Sea guarders. This is an organization worried about
dolphins and whales trapped in the shallow water near the beaches.
Mauricio and his friends instruct the volunteers in the rescue operations for
doing different activities as to put ropes around the whales tail and to tow
the whale into deeper water. They take care of the beaches, too. They
enjoy saving maritime animals.
Vocabulary:
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2.- ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Lesson 25
Project: A profile book. Part two
Read
2. Discuss about the types of actions that earn respect and admiration then, write a list of them.
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3. Write a list of people who are admired in your community, city or country. For example: the principal of
your school, a teacher in your school, the president of your town, a writer, etc.
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4. Choose one person from your list and complete the chart.

Name:
Date of birth:
Place of birth:
Date of death:
Age:
Occupation:
Actions to earn admiration:

Adapted from Libro de Ingls 3

Telesecundaria, pp. 89-93; SEP.

Mtra. R. M. Julieta Gutirrez Tlalpa

3 B

Lesson 26
Project: A profile book. Part three
Read
Writing a draft of the biography.
1. Get in teams and analyze the information you brought to the class. In this unit you have read some
biographies of important people, so, you know what information should be included.
2. Start to write the biography, include the information you wrote in the chart and the one you
investigated. Show your draft to your teacher in order to check the text then, you will correct the
mistakes.
3. After you have corrected the mistakes show your text to your teacher again. He will tell you if you
have done a good job.
For next class you have to bring the photograph, glue and a pen.

Lesson 27
Project: A profile book. Part four
Read
Write on the following format your biography. After that, paste the photo in the corresponding place.

Adapted from Libro de Ingls 3

Telesecundaria, pp. 89-93; SEP.

Mtra. R. M. Julieta Gutirrez Tlalpa

3 B