Learning activity 4 Evidence: Consolidation activity Stage 1: The person I admire the most A. What to do? Write a biography of the person you admire the most. This person can be, for example, a public figure, a celebrity, a politician, a world leader or someone close to you, a relative. Note: The person you choose cannot be the same chosen for Evidence 3 of this learning activity. B. How to do it? You need to carry out some research in order to collect the necessary information for writing the biography. If the person chosen is a public figure, you can surf the web in order to get the details you are going to include. On the contrary, if the person chose is someone you know personally, you can set up an interview in order to ask the person the questions you may have about his / her life. Here is an outline we suggest following for writing the biography. We have chosen Charles Darwin (public figure), an influential scientist of the nineteenth century, as example for the outline. Suggested outline 1. Early life and education. 2. Voyage of the Beagle. 3. Darwin's evolutionary theory. 4. Overwork, illness, and marriage. 5. Natural selection. 6. Geology books, barnacles, evolutionary research. 7. Publication of the theory of natural selection. 8. Responses to publication. 9. Descent of man, sexual selection, and botany. 10. Death and funeral.
Stage 2: My admiration for… A. What to do? In this section, you will record a tape or video in which you orally present the person you chose in Section 1. For this part of the evidence you need to present the biography as well as explain and illustrate the reasons why you admire this person.
B. How to do it? Record an audio or a video in the device of your preference. Before start the recording, you need to organize the information you are going to introduce. Your presentation has to include the following aspects: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
An introduction. A description of the biography. Arguments and illustrations supporting your admiration for this person. A conclusion. Sources (In the event you consulted any articles, the web, journals, etc.)
Note: During the presentation you need to include the appropriate signpost language for oral presentations and also some of the vocabulary related to responsibility and leadership.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez Hello, everyone, very good morning, this is the person that I admire the most is the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia, why do I admire it? I admire him because he was a noble man and he is the person who wrote the countless literary works that I have Read so far, his works inspired me and made of my good person, this man wrote the most magnificent and interesting stories in history his imagination was priceless at all a man worth admiring.
He was born in Aracataca, March 6, 1927 known as Gabriel García Márquez, writer, novelist, storyteller, scriptwriter, editor and Colombian journalist. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was familiarly known by his friends as Gabito, by his apocope Gabo, since Eduardo Zalamea Borda, deputy director of the newspaper El Espectador, began to call it that. It is inherently related to magical realism and his best known work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, is considered one of the most representative of this literary movement and is also considered by the success of the novel is that the term applies To the literature emerged from the 1960s in Latin America. In 2007, the Spanish Royal Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language launched a popular edition commemorating this novel, considering it part of the great Hispanic classics of all time. He was famous for both his genius as a writer and his posture policy. His friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro was well-known in the literary and political world. Son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, born in Aracataca, department of Magdalena, Colombia, "on Sunday, March 1927 at nine o'clock in the morning ...", as he refers to the writer himself in his memoirs. When his parents fell in love, Luisa's father, Colonel Nicolas Ricardo Marquez Mejia, opposed this relationship, for Gabriel Eligio Garcia, who had arrived in Aracataca as a telegrapher, was not the man he considered most appropriate for his daughter, To be the son of a single mother, to belong to the Conservative Party of Colombia and to be a confessed womanizer.
With the intention of separating them, Luisa was sent out of the city, but Gabriel Eligio courted her with violin serenades, love poems, innumerable letters and frequent telegraphic messages. Finally, the family capitulated and Luisa got permission to marry Gabriel Eligio, which happened on June 1958 in Santa Marta. The story and tragicomedy of that procession would later inspire his son the novel Love in the times of cholera. Shortly after Gabriel's birth, his father became a pharmacist and, in January 1929, moved with Luisa to Barranquilla, leaving Gabriel in Aracataca in the care of his maternal grandparents. Since he lived with them during the first years of his life, he received a strong influence from Colonel Nicolás Márquez, who as a young man killed Medardo Pacheco in a duel and had, besides the three official children, nine others with different mothers. The colonel was a veteran liberal of the Thousand-Day War, widely respected by his co-partisans and known for his refusal to be silent about the Banana Massacre, an event in which hundreds of people died at the hands of the Colombian Armed Forces during A strike of the workers of the banana plantations, a fact that García Márquez would portray in his work.
The colonel, whom Gabriel called "Papalelo", describing it as his "umbilical cord with history and reality", was also an excellent narrator and taught him, for example, to consult frequently the dictionary, took him to the circus every year and Was the first to introduce his grandson to the "miracle" of ice, which was in the United Fruit Company's store.5 He often said, "You do not know what a dead man weighs," referring to the fact that there was no greater Burden that of having killed a man, a lesson that Garcia Marquez would later incorporate into his novels. His grandmother, Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes, whom García Márquez calls Grandmother Mina and describes as "an imaginative and superstitious woman" 1 who filled the house with stories of ghosts, premonitions, omens and signs, was as influential in García Márquez as her Husband and is even pointed out by the writer as his first and main literary influence, because it inspired the original way she treated the extraordinary as something perfectly natural when told stories and no matter how fantastic or improbable their stories, always referred to as If they were an irrefutable truth. In addition to the style, Grandmother Mina also inspired the character of Ursula Iguarán who, some thirty years later, her grandson would use in A Hundred Years of Solitude, his most popular novel.
In conclusion this man inspired many generations with his works and will continue to do so as humanity progresses.
Stage 3: Submitting my evidence When you finish your work, send the files to your instructor through the platform as follows: 1. Click the title of this evidence. 2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the files in your computer. Make sure the files are attached. 3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional). 4. Click Enviar. Important: The platform will only allow you to submit your files once. Please, make sure you upload the two (2) files when submitting your evidence. Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to develop them and deliver them correctly.
Criterios de evaluación Expresa ideas sobre productividad y responsabilidad vocabulario requerido.
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Prepara presentaciones orales haciendo uso del vocabulario y las diferentes estructuras gramaticales requeridas.
Expresa ideas sobre liderazgo y responsabilidad usando el vocabulario requerido.
Combina diferentes tiempos verbales para expresar ideas, usando la estructura y el vocabulario requerido.
Usa expresiones idiomáticas teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y contexto requerido.
Expresa reflexiones críticas sobre el pasado en el contexto requerido.