Book 3 (Intermediate), What a Life! Stories of Amazing People, Vol. 3
Did you know that¿\ ¿Jean Paul Getty put pay phones in his guests¿ bedrooms to save money on phone bills?\ ¿Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them?\ ¿Pele´¿s first soccer ball was a grapefruit?\ ¿Pablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes?\ ¿Agatha Christie wrote a book that actually saved someone¿s life?\ These and other fascinating facts make up the biographies in What A Life!\ This three-book series takes a fresh...
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Did you know that: Jean Paul Getty put pay phones in his guests bedrooms to save money on phone bills? Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them? Peles first soccer ball was a grapefruit? Pablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes? Agatha Christie wrote a book that actually saved someones life? These and other fascinating facts make up the biographies in What A Life! This three-book series takes a fresh approach to making reading both pleasurable and motivating! High-interest biographies focus on less-known facts about famous figures, rather than the chronology of events typical of most biographies. Each book in the What A Life! Series takes a multicultural approach, featuring 24 short biographies on inspirational figures from all over the world. Subjects range from historical and political figures to athletes, artists, entertainers, and humanitarians, including: Marie Curie I.M. Pei Eva Pern Agatha Christie Muhammad Ali Bruce Lee Leonardo da Vinci William Shakespeare Cesar Chavez Pablo Picasso Maria Montessori Mother Teresa In addition to the biographical reading, each short, easy-tofollow unit includes: Pre-reading questions and activities. Vocabulary exercises definition and usage. Main-idea and reading-skills exercises. Questions on detail and inference. Discussion, comprehension, andwriting activities. Answers to exercises at the end of each book.
Unit 1 Leonardo da Vinci ArtistUnit 2 Peter the Great RoyaltyUnit 3 Ludwig van Beethoven ComposerUnit 4 Fyodor Dostoyevsky WriterUnit 5 Sarah Bernhardt ActressUnit 6 Nickola Tesla ScientistUnit 7 Sigmund Freud PsychiatristUnit 8 Pandita Ramabai HumanitarianUnit 9 Matthew Henson ExplorerUnit 10 Nellie Bly JournalistUnit 11 Maria Mantessori EducatorUnit 12 Jacqueline Cochran PilotUnit 13 Althea Gibson Tennis playerUnit 14 Gabriel García Márquez WriterUnit 15 Dian Fossey ZoologistUnit 16 Bruce Lee Athlete and actorUnit 17 Wilma Mankiller Political LeaderUnit 18 Richard Branson EntrepreneurUnit 19 Rigoberta Menchú ActivistUnit 20 Diana Golden SkierAnswer KeyBibliography
