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What a Life! - Stories of Amazing People

Publisher: Longman 
Milada Broukal
2001 
ISBN: 0201619970 
English 
PDF 
124 pages 
28.6 MB

These and other fascinating facts make up the biographies in 'What A Life!'
 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?

 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 Perón
 • 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, and writing activities.
 • Answers to exercises at the end of each book.

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