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writing a life story • writing skill when
Unit 10 True stories
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Writing a life story 8 Work in pairs. Exchange your stories. Find one
surprising thing in your partner’s life story. Ask
1 Work in pairs. Choose three famous people two questions about your partner’s childhood.
you both know. What do you know about their
lives? Compare your ideas.

2 Read Kenzō’s life story. Write the paragraph
(A–C) next to the things he writes about.

1 family
2 friends
3 hobbies
4 places
5 school www.english0905.com

6 toys

3 Read Kenz ’s life story again and find the
ō
information. Compare your answers with a
partner.
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1 when and where he was born
2 who he lived with
3 an important thing in his life
4 an interesting thing about him

a Complete the sentence from the life story.
When I was a child,

MEMORIES
b Find three more sentences with When in
the life story. . MY CHILDHOOD Kenzō

c Rewrite these sentences as one sentence with A I was born on July 15, 2006 in Fukuoka,
When. Don’t forget the comma. Japan. When I was a child, I lived
1 My parents were young. They lived in Oman. with my brother, my parents, and my
2 I started school. I made a lot of friends. grandfather. My grandfather was funny
3 I was a child. I had many toys. and interesting. He died in 2014.
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4 I was three years old. My sister was born. When I was seven, my favorite toy was a

5 Make notes about your childhood. Use the B helicopter. I got it from my grandfather.
ideas in Exercise 2. I loved it. I flew it every day. When my
friends saw my helicopter, they wanted
6 Use your notes and write two or three one, too.
paragraphs about your life story. Include:
• an important fact. C I went to school with my brother every
• an interesting memory. day. We were in the same class because
• a sentence with When. we’re the same age—we’re twins! I didn’t
like school very much. When I was 16,
7 Check your paragraphs. Check the spelling, I left school and I started my first job
punctuation, and verbs. Remember to include the next day. That was the end of my
a title. childhood and the start of a new story.

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