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Description What a Life! Stories of Amazing People (High Beginning Student Book) by Milada Broukal Pearson Longman | September 2001 | ISBN-10: 0201619970 | scanned PDF | 124 pages | 19.1 mb http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Amazing-People-Beginning-Student/dp/0201619970 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 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. Related Torrents
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