What a Life! Stories of Amazing People (High Beginning Student Book)
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 inWhat 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 theWhat 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 CurieI.M. Pei Eva Perón Agatha Christie Muhammad Ali Bruce Lee Leonardo da VinciWilliam ShakespeareCesar ChavezPablo PicassoMaria MontessoriMother TeresaIn addition to the biographical reading, each short, easy-tofollow unit includes:Pre-reading questionsand activities.Vocabulary exercises --definition and usage.Main-ideaandreading-skillsexercises.Questions on detail and inference.Discussion, comprehension,andwritingactivities.Answers to exercises at the end of each book.