1. Title: My favourite actor’s life
Title: My favourite actor's life
Description: This is an intermediate-advanced lesson focusing on famous actors
and actresses by using the past simple tense
Grade Level: college/adult
Curriculum: Art / Music
Introduction
We ‘ve always had one favourite actor or actress as years pass by.
When we choose one particular actress or actor, we take into account our
personality and our way of thinking, since that, the person we choose reflects
our likes and preferences.
Nowadays children, adolescentes and even adults enjoy watching films, series,
and episodes in their daily lives. And of course, the type of entertainment they
choose depends on their likes and preferences. And inside those preference lies
their favourite actor/actress.
Task
You are part of a school competition. The School has asked the participants to
choose one actor or actress and to write a biography based on the participants’
research, their background knowledge and their knwoledge of the world. The
biography should be personal and creative. When you finish you will have to
prepare a power point presentation with illustrations that reflect your written
work in order that you could present your work to your classmates.

2. Process
1. Decide the actor/actress that you will focus on
Research: Find out this information visiting this websites- - You can visit all of
them or choose the ones that have all what you need.
Famous actor biographies, filmography, and factoids.(n.d.) Retrieved
fromhttp://www.enewsreference.com/famous_actors.shtml
wikipedia the free encyclopedia.(n.d). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Main_Page
What the world is looking for. The “fast find”web guide.(n.d). Retrieved from
http://www.chiff.com/pop-culture/hollywood.htm
famous people their lives.(n.d). Retrived from http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/
celebrity and acting info.(n.d). Retrived from http://www.thespiannet.com/
Bio true story.(n.d). Retrived from http://www.biography.com/
celebrity biography.(n.d). Retrived from
http://celebritywonder.ugo.com/html/biography.shtml
- Personal information: in this section you have to include date and place of
birth, members of the family, studies (primary, secondary, university, etc)
marital status ,etc
- Beginning of the career: first films, time and place.
- Create a timeline showing how the person begins their career up to now.
(include famous films, participations in series, etc)

3. 2. Organization of information:
Summarize the information you think is relevant
Try to divide the information you have found under different titles in order
that you can have all the information organized when you have to start with
the assignment. For example:
Private life
Career
Famous films, etc
3. Creating the biography:
Open a word document and start writing titles for each part of the research
so as to help you. The design of the biography is subjective that means that
you design the biography according to your preferences and likes. For
example: Personal information: Jhonny Deep was born in........and you continue
writing the information you have found. Then Beginning of the career and you
complete with the information, etc.
It would be fantastic that you include illustrations.
4. Final Product:
When you have finished with all the assignment on the Word document, you
open the power point presentation and do a similar work but summarizing
more the information and with more visual effects.
Each student will show to the class the work done with a projector.
Evaluation
This assignment will take into account the:
- creativity( students should be able to use their imagination and creativity)
- Dedication (assignments that show interest, hours of work will have higher
marks than the ones that show lower interest)

4. - Use of Language, puctuaction ( the assignment should be coherent, without
spelling mistakes and written with the correct use of the language) and of
course, grammar(the correct use of the verbs in the past simple).
- Fact of having all the information asked and the dateline. Assignments
which are handed in after the dateline will not be accepted.
Conclusion
With this assignment the students have:
• Practised how to summarize information
• Used the internet to find information
• Practised how a biography is done
• Realized which information is relevant or not
• Used their own ideas to create a creative biography
• Learnt more about famous people
• Listened to the other classmates’ work
• Talked about a common topic”celebrities” by using the foreign language.
• Learnt that not only the internet is used to pass the time but also to
find all the information we need to present an assignment.