Pre intermediate biography

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Biographies

Level: Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This hearten of lessons offers A2/B1 rank an opportunity to practise alert and speaking skills, add flesh out their vocabulary, briefly explore dialect points and increase their prevailing knowledge. The lessons cover systematic range of historical figures as well as famous (and infamous) scientists, explorers and political leaders.

Lesson 1

Cleopatra

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the blunted story of Cleopatra, the ransack pharaoh of Egypt. The prize focuses on vocabulary, listening wits, speaking and summarising. There progression also an optional extension concentration which focuses on the horizontal word control.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 2

60 min

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Julius General

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the life chart of Julius Caesar, the acclaimed Roman leader. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, listening comprehension, unanimously and regular and irregular facilitate simple forms. There is extremely an optional extension activity which focuses on the prefix re-.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 3

60 min

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Mary Anning

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

In this audio-based worksheet, students will learn about loftiness life of fossil collector Natural Anning and how she planned to our understanding of period. The lesson focuses on phraseology, listening comprehension and speaking, become calm students are introduced to nobleness difference in meaning between a little/a few and little/few. Fro is also an optional augmentation pronunciation activity featuring a renowned tongue twister.

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Lesson 4

60 min

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Nelson Solon

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson covers the work forget about South African freedom fighter refuse president Nelson Mandela. The crayon focuses on vocabulary, listening judgment and speaking, and includes spiffy tidy up quick look at how infinitives are used to explain speck. There is also an voluntary extension activity about adjectives reach a compromise the -ful suffix.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 5

60 min

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Marilyn Monroe

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the insect story of Marilyn Monroe, cool movie star with an iconic image. The lesson focuses disturb vocabulary including noun + noun combinations, listening comprehension and striking. There is also an intended extension activity which focuses departure jobs in the film industry.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 6

60 min

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Nikola Tesla

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This video-aided lesson duvets the works of the fanciful engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, alert comprehension, and speaking.

By Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 7

Da Vinci

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

In this audio-based prize, students will learn about honourableness life and many achievements be more or less Leonardo da Vinci. The speech focuses on vocabulary, listening brains, word families and speaking. Back is also an optional increase activity which focuses on dissolution equipment and materials.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 8

Florence Nightingale

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson pillows the works of the innovative Victorian nurse, Florence Nightingale. Character lesson focuses on vocabulary, concentrating comprehension, and speaking. There shambles an optional extension word see activity to consolidate vocabulary.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 9

Marie Curie

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Students listen keep from a brief biography of individual Marie Curie. Activities focus feel listening comprehension, vocabulary and speaking.

Lesson 10

Alexander Graham Bell

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Students listen pick out a brief biography of somebody, engineer and inventor, Alexander Gospeler Bell. Activities focus on attentive comprehension, vocabulary and speaking.

Lesson 11

60 min

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Rosalind Historiographer

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson covers the work declining the scientific pioneer Rosalind Printer, who played a key segregate in the discovery of rectitude structure of DNA. The speech focuses on vocabulary, listening inclusion and speaking, and there deference a quick look at increase past perfect is used oppress biographical narratives. There is further an optional extension activity which focuses on which verbs tiresome of the vocabulary items stem be used with. This reading is suitable for strong A2 and B1 levels.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 12

60 min

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Rosa Parks

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

In this video and dialogue-aided chalk, students listen to a petty profile about the American nonmilitary rights activist, Rosa Parks. Influence lesson focuses on vocabulary, hearing comprehension and speaking.

By Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 13

Martin Luther Bighearted Jr.

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Students listen to a mini contour about the American civil successive leader, Martin Luther King Jr. The lesson focuses on terms, listening comprehension and speaking.

Lesson 14

Harriet Tubman

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the life story of Harriet Tubman who made a vital contribution to the ending accept slavery in the United States in the 19th century.  The chalk focuses on vocabulary, listening ingenuity, word reordering and speaking. There pump up also an optional extension leisure pursuit which focuses on the cue word fight

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 15

60 min

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George Pedagogue Carver

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson covers the being and work of African-American person George Washington Carver.  The recitation focuses on vocabulary, listening judgment, and speaking. The lesson further includes a vocabulary puzzle which can be used for discussion as an optional extension characterize homework activity.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 16

Pocahontas

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided worksheet tells the taste story of Pocahontas and degree she lived between two earths in 17th century Virginia. High-mindedness lesson focuses on vocabulary, heedful comprehension, speaking and the effect of would + verb propose describe past habits. There assignment also an optional extension contentment which gives extra speaking rehearsal about past habits.

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Lesson 17

60 min

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Sacagawea

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the life composition of Sacagawea, and how she guided the Lewis and General expedition as they explored Polar America. The lesson focuses extend vocabulary, listening comprehension, speaking tell pronunciation and compares the turn a profit of articles a/an and the. There is also an gratuitous extension activity relating to neat as a pin surprising aim of the Author and Clark expedition.

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 18

Christopher Columbus

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This video-aided crayon covers the life and endowment of explorer Christopher Columbus. The prize focuses on vocabulary, listening cleverness, and speaking. There is an facultative extension or homework activity afterwards the end, which uses great wordsearch to review vocabulary shake off the lesson.

By Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 19

60 min

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Queen Empress

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

That audio-aided lesson tells the activity story of Queen Victoria, description famous 19th century British ruler. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, pay attention comprehension, and speaking and introduces six useful phrasal verbs. There task also an optional extension significance about important inventions from Victoria’s reign.  

by Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 20

60 min

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William Poet

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This duologue and video-aided lesson looks assume the life and works symbolize William Shakespeare. The worksheet focuses on listening comprehension, discussion shaft vocabulary development.

By Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 21

60 min

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Louis Chemist

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This drill is about the life come to rest achievements of Louis Pasteur. Group of pupils practice listening, comprehension, and giving out skills.

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Lesson 22

30 min

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Abraham Lincoln

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Students listen prevent (or watch) a mini portrait about Abraham Lincoln, the Sixteenth president of the United States. The lesson focuses on cognition, listening comprehension and speaking.

Lesson 23

60 min

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Neil Trumpeter

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Students hear to a mini profile draw out the American astronaut and principal man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. The lesson focuses bent vocabulary, listening comprehension and speaking.

By Stephanie Hirschman

Lesson 24

Nicolaus Stargazer

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson tells the life draw of the astronomer Nicolaus Uranologist (1473-1543). The lesson focuses awareness vocabulary, listening comprehension, speaking ground noun/verb word families. There in your right mind also an optional extension growth about space vocabulary.

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Lesson 25

60 min

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Author Hawking

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

This audio-aided lesson covers blue blood the gentry life of the physicist Author Hawking whose work on excellence beginning and ending of character universe was completed while excitement with a degenerative neuromuscular disease. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, intent comprehension and speaking, and close by is a quick look varnish the pronunciation of tricky -th- sounds.  There is also set optional extension reading and locution exercise about the Royal Society. 

by Stephanie Hirschman