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Pathway Chapter 11

This chapter discusses biography and its typical structure. A biography usually consists of three parts: an introduction about the person, a body with details about their life including place of birth, education, career, achievements, and what made them special, and a conclusion about their contributions. It also focuses on the grammar used in biographies, including the simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, and past perfect tenses. Additionally, it notes that biographies now come in multimedia forms along with traditional literary styles and some are adapted into motion pictures. Biographies can be authorized with the subject's permission or be autobiographies written by the subject themselves.

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Pathway Chapter 11

This chapter discusses biography and its typical structure. A biography usually consists of three parts: an introduction about the person, a body with details about their life including place of birth, education, career, achievements, and what made them special, and a conclusion about their contributions. It also focuses on the grammar used in biographies, including the simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, and past perfect tenses. Additionally, it notes that biographies now come in multimedia forms along with traditional literary styles and some are adapted into motion pictures. Biographies can be authorized with the subject's permission or be autobiographies written by the subject themselves.

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CHAPTER XI

BIOGRAPHY
WHAT’S ON THIS CHAPTER?

Biography text

Grammar
Focus

Cultural
Awareness
BIOGRAPHY
• Biography or bio is a detailed description or
account of a person’s life
• A simple bio consists of three main parts:

Introduction Explanation about who the person was

Information about him/her


• Place of birth, date of birth, education and
Body career
• Things that made him/her special
• Achievements

Conclusions The importance of his/her contribution


Tens
es Fou
Grammar Focus Biog
In A nd
raph
y
Simple Present Tense

The pattern:
• Positive Statement:
Subject + Verb 1 (Verb 1 s/es)

• Negative statement:
Subject + don’t/doesn’t + Verb 1
Examples:
• She likes spending her time in library.
• Jonathan doesn’t enjoy smoking at all.
en s e s F o u nd
Present Continuous T
In A
The pattern: Biography
Subjects + am/is/are + present participle (verb-ing)

Use the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to express


the idea that something is happening now, at this very
moment. It can also be used to show that something is not
happening now.

Examples:
• You are learning English now.
• You are not swimming now.
• I am sitting.
• He listens to radio when he’s driving
Simple Past Tense en s e s F o u nd
T
In A
The pattern: Biography
Positive:
Subject + Verb 2 or Subject + was/were
Negative:
Subject + did not + V1
Passive
Subject + was/were+ Verb 3

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action


started and finished at a specific time in the past.

Examples:
•He started the company in 1954.
•He traveled to Japan
•He didn’t leave until the war ended.
F o u nd
Past Continuous Tense Ten s e s
In A
The pattern: Biography

Subjects + was/were + verb-ing

Use the past continuous tense to show our interest in


the action itself as it is actually taking place.

Examples:
•He was starting his company when all his brothers
were still busy with their study.
Tens
es F
The Past Perfect Tense In A
oun
d
Biog
raph
• Pattern: y

S + had + past participle (of the main verb)

• The past perfect tense shows action that happened


in the past.
• Adverbs that can follow: already and all adverbs that
can be used with the past tense.

• Examples:
 He had established five education centers in 1985.
She had earned more than fifteen journalistic
awards within 12 years.
Grammar Focus

Auxiliary verbs
• Auxiliary verbs are additional
verbs that maybe used in
main verbs to add meanings

• Auxiliary verbs are all forms


of be, have, do, and modals
• Biography presents a subject’s life story, Cultural
highlighting various aspects of his/her
Awaren
life, the details of experience and even the
analysis of personality. ess
• Along with the development of
technology, multimedia biography
became more popular than the traditional
literary form.

• Some of the biographies were also


represented in major motion pictures

• An authorized biography is written with


the permission, cooperation, and at times,
participation of a subject or a subject’s
heirs

• An autobiography is written by the person


themselves, sometimes with assistance of
a collaborator or ghostwriter

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