This document provides information about Sir Isaac Newton in both Spanish and English. It includes a fact file about Newton's life in three paragraphs that details his birthplace and date, occupation, important works, places he lived, and cause of death. It also includes a similar fact file and biography of Marie Curie in three paragraphs with additional details. The document teaches vocabulary for describing life events and provides examples of fact files and biographies about important historical figures.

1. Reading comprehension and
writing 1
The past / a biography
narrative, expository, argumentative, informative or poetic (creo)
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2. ¿Qué vamos a aprender?
Grammar and vocabulary
• Hablar y escribir sobre la vida de personas importantes.
• Utilizar vocabulario de sucesos de la vida (lección 2).
• Mejorar la comprensión de lo que leemos.
• Mejorar la estructura de lo que escribimos.
• Distinguir entre información importante y complementaria.
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3. Sir Isaac
Newton
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4. Trinity College - Cambridge 4

5. Complete the fact file with data from the text
you just read from Sir Isaac Newton
First Paragraph
• Birth:
• Place of birth:
• Occupation:
• Why we talk about him:
Second Paragraph
• Books:
• Designs:
• Achievements:
Third Paragraph
• Where did he live:
• Marriage
• Children:
• Death:
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6. Fact File
Parrafo 1 – Información general
• Birth: December 25, 1642
• Place of birth: Woolsthorpe,
Lincolnshire
• Occupation: Mathematics and
Physics
• Why we talk about him: the
most important scientist in
history.
What is the difference between a fact
file and a text?
Isaac Newton was born on
December 25, 1642, in
Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire,
England. He was born in the
same year that Galileo died.
Newton is probably the most
important scientist in history.
His work on mathematics and
physics became a basis for
modern science, and his ideas
changed the world
Which other verbs related to life events do we know? (lesson 2)
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7. Fact File
Parrafo 2 – Qué le hace
grande
• Books: Opticks and Principia
• Designs: the first reflecting
telescope
• Achievements: Formulated
the laws of motion and
gravity
What is the difference between a fact
file and a text?
Newton published his
work in two books. Opticks
and Principia. These
contain his laws of motion
and gravity. He used these
laws to predict the
movements of the stars,
and the planets around
the Sun. He also designed
and built the world’s first
reflecting telescope.
Which other verbs related to life events do we know? (lesson 2) 7

8. Fact File
Parrafo 3 – Detalles de su
vida y muerte
• Where did he live: 1661-
1696 Trinity College /1696-
1727 London
• Death: March 20, 1727
(digestión problems)
What is the difference between a fact
file and a text?
Newton studied at Trinity
College, Cambridge, from
1661 to 1696. In those
years he produced most of
his most important work.
Then, in 1696, he moved
to London, where he lived
until his death on March
20, 1727, as a
consequence of digestion
problems.
Which other verbs related to life events do we know? (lesson 2) 8

9. Fact File
Parrafo 1 – Información general
• Birth: December 25, 1642
• Place of birth: Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire
• Occupation: Mathematics and Physics
• Why we talk about him: His ideas changed the world
Parrafo 2 – Qué le hace grande
• Books: Opticks and Principia
• Designs: the first reflecting telescope
• Achievements: Formulated the laws of motion and
gravity
Parrafo 3 – Detalles de su vida y muerte
• Where did he live: 1661-1696 Trinity College
/1696-1727 London
• Death: March 20, 1727 (digestión problems)
What is the difference between a fact
file and a text?
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, in
Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire, England. He was
born in the same year that Galileo died. Newton is
probably the most important scientist in history.
His work on mathematics and physics became a
basis for modern science, and his ideas changed
the world
Newton published his work in two books. Opticks
and Principia. These contain his laws of motion
and gravity. He used these laws to predict the
movements of the stars, and the planets around
the Sun. He also designed and built the world’s
first reflecting telescope.
Newton studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,
from 1661 to 1696. In those years he produced
most of his most important work. Then, in 1696,
he moved to London, where he lived until his
death on March 20, 1727, as a consequence of
digestion problems.
Which other verbs related to life events do we know? (lesson 2) 9

10. Prepositions
• Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642
• In Woolsthorpe
• Newton studied at Trinity College
• His work on mathematics changed the world
On before dates
In before places and years
At before specific places
You work ON something
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11. Marie Curie - Basic data
• Birth: November 7, 1867
• Place of birth: Warsaw, Poland
• Ocupation: Physicist and Chemist
• Why do we talk about her: She is the only person
to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences
• Discoveries: Polonium and Radium.
• Creations: Curie Institute.
• Developments: Mobile radiography units to
provide X-ray services in field hospitals in World
War II
• Where did she live: Poland (student and governess
/ 1891 Paris)
• Mariage: 1895. Pierre Curie
• Children: two daughters (Irène and Ève Curie)
• Death: as a consequence of exposure to radiation
in Paris on July 4, 1934.
• Can you write her biography in
three paragraphs?
• Can you add any details that are
not in the fact file?
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12. Additional information
• Her full name was Maria Saloeia Sklodowska-Curie
• In Poland women were not allowed to study and she had to attend a clandestine
university.
• She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris
Suggestions for the second paragraph
• She was the first woman to win Nobel prize in Physics
• With her husband, she discovered Polonium and Radium
• In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Suggestions for the third paragraph
• Her husband died in a car accident in 1906
• In 1921, she moved to the USA with her family
• Her daughter Irene also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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13. Someone I admire: Step 1, fact file
Parrafo 1 – Información general
• Birth:
• Place of birth:
• Occupation:
Parrafo 2 – Qué le hace grande
• Important achievements (songs, concerts, books,
inventions, designs, conquests…)
Parrafo 3 – Detalles de su vida (y muerte)
• Mariage:
• Children:
• Places he/she lived)
• Death:
• Do you know the basics about
this person?
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14. Someone I admire. Step 2
• What else can I say about him/ her?
• Which connectors of sequence do you need
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