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Write a Biography

2 BEFORE YOU WRITE.

A Think of someone you know well or know a lot about. In your notebook, brainstorm a list of
important events in this person’s life and his or her age when the event happened.

B Choose five or more events from your list from exercise A. Then complete the timeline. Use the
timeline from exercise 1C as a model.

TImELINE
Age:

Event:

3 WRITE a short biography of the person you chose. Write two or three paragraphs. Use
the information from your chart in exercise 2B and the text in exercise 1A to help you.
Use gerunds and infinitives.

WRITING FOcUS Using First and Then to Show a Sequence

Writers often use the words first and then at the beginning of a sentence to show the
sequence of events, or the order in which the events happened. Use first for the first
event. Use then for a later event.
Use a comma after first or then.

First, he chopped vegetables and stirred beans. Then, he learned how to make
soups and other simple dishes.

4 SELF ASSESS. Read your biography. Underline the gerunds and circle the infinitives. Then use
the checklist to assess your work.

I used gerunds correctly. [10.1, 10.2, 10.5]
I used infinitives correctly. [10.3, 10.4, 10.5]
I used too and enough with infinitives correctly. [10.7, 10.8]
I used first and then to show sequence in my biography. [WRITING FOCUS]

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