WRITE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Here’s a puzzle for you. Look at the pictures and try to guess whose life it depicts and reconstruct the biography using the pictures as prompts.

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1. Lay the pictures in the correct order.

2. Complete the gapped version with the correct verb tense.

3. Write your own biography by following the model.

Complete the text below using the Past Simple form of the verbs in the box.

John Lennon .........................(1)in Liverpool, England in 1940.

He ........................ (2) art and ......................... (3) to be an artist.

In 1962 he ............................ (4) a band called The Beatles with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star.

In 1968 ........................... (5) John his childhood sweetheart, Cynthia.

John ............................. (6) a Japanese girl named Yoko Ono.

The band........................... (7) in 1970 shortly after recording one of the greatest albums, Let It Be.

In 1975 John's and Yoko's son Sean ............................... (8)

John ........................(9) five years helping take care of his boy.

On December8, 1980, a young man named Mark Chapman......................... (10) John outside his home in New York.

John ..................... (11). in a police car on the way to the hospital.

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