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Write a Family History

C Complete the chart with information from the article in exercise A. Discuss your answers
with a partner.

What the author knows for sure What the author guesses

He has a distant relative who was Bruno must have been very brave.
an explorer.

BEFORE YOU WRITE.
Draw a family tree going as far back as you possibly can. What do you know about your
relatives who lived a long time ago? Share your family tree with a partner.

B Choose one family member fo write about. Make a chart like the one in exercise 1C. Write
logical conclusions or possibilities about the past in the right-hand column.

3 WRITE two or three paragraphs about a distant relative or ancestor. Give information you
know about him or her. Then discuss what may or must have happened in his or her life.
Use your chart from exercise 2B and the article in exercise 1A to help you.

WRITING FOCUS Using In Fact to Emphasize an Interesting Idea

In fact is used to introduce and add emphasis to an interesting idea that builds on
information in the previous sentence.

This is how discovered that! am distantly related to a man called Bruno, who knew the
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famous Brazilian explorer, CGndido Rondon. In fact, Bruno was one of the members of the
famous expedition in Mato Grasso in 1909.

4 SELF ASSESS. Underline the verb forms in your paragraphs. Then use the checklist to
assess your work,

OOOO Iused modals of possibility about the past correctly. [8.4]
Iused modals of possibility and logical conclusion about the present correctly. [8.1, 8.2]

Tused modals of logical conclusion about the past correctly. [8.5]

I used Jn fact to emphasize an interesting idea. [WRITING FOCUS]

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