Saturday 13 April 2019

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 English Blog - Biography Unit

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!

Biography and Autobiography Unit

What is a biography?
Bio means life.
Graph means writing.
Biographical writing is about someone else’s life. It is about a real person but written by someone else in third person.
A A biography contains key details of a person’s life. We use our question words to help organise ideas:
Where they lived
When they lived
How they lived
What they did and why

It is written in chronological order. It can be about a living or a dead person.


A biography provides information about the important events in a person's life. 
A biography will also talk about how the person feels and the emotions they show.

What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is the writing about a person's life written by the person himself or herself. It is written in first person (pronouns such as I, me, my myself, we, us our).

Who is Jane Goodall?
Read Jane Goodall's biography and do the related activities.

Were you ever kind to an animal? Do you think animals forget people who are kind to them? Watch this video!


Do you know any story of an animal saving a human's life? Here is one. Watch this video.

China's Leap Year Forward

Jung Yang's Autobiography: Wild Swans

Read Spy Dog - Teacher's Pet Chapter 8. Is Lara going to save someone from an eminent danger? Find out!