Unit 11e – Writing a

biography

National Geographic Learning – Life Intermediate A2 - B1

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a paragraph 2 (born in 1944 in a small village in
the mountains of northern Italy)
b paragraph 2 (His father was a climber and
took his son up a mountain when he was only
five. As a teenager Messner climbed with his
younger brother Günther.)
c paragraph 1 (one of the first men to climb
Mount Everest without oxygen in 1978; first
man to climb all fourteen of the world’s
mountains over eight thousand metres)
d paragraph 2 (‘it’s the most beautiful place in
the world’)
e paragraph 3 (‘Reinhold had so many new
ideas,’ says Kammerlander. ‘He found new
ways, new techniques.’)
f paragraph 4 (Nowadays Messner spends
more time at home with his family and he has
written over sixty books.)
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… he still says, ‘it’s the most beautiful place in
the world.’
‘Reinhold had so many new ideas,’ says
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1 Immediately before and after the quotation 2
only if it ends the sentence
3 A comma is used before or after the
quotation – it separates ‘he/she says/said’
from the quotation.
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1 My grandfather always told me, ‘You should
follow your dreams.’
2 ‘Yes, we can,’ said Barack Obama, when he
campaigned to become the US President.
3 Film critics said, ‘She’s the greatest actress of
her generation.’
4 ‘Education is the most powerful weapon,’
said Nelson Mandela.
Thank you