celebrities

Thanks to Paul for this lesson idea:
http://globeexeter.pbworks.com/w/page/35798425/Celebrities

A good source of celebrities with biographies can be found at Hello Magazine's list of profiles:
http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/

Personally, I'd prefer to profile the likes of the star of Chinatown:



But Paul has chosen someone a little younger..
Here's the link to his information-gap exchange activity on Beyonce:
http://globeexeter.pbworks.com/f/Beyonce+activity+pair+A.doc

As Paul says: 'This activity is for use in the classroom rather than on the computer, but it does demonstrate how you can create more up-to-date activities to engage students.'

Teachers and students can create thier own exercises using the Hello website - rather than always going to Wikipedia. Although Simple English Wikipedia has some very useful texts:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9
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