Project on a famous life | Samples | Level A2

Project on a famous life Choose a famous person and write a project about him/her. Find out about the person’s life and make a factfile about them. Use pictures/videos to illustrate your project. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born in Albania in 1910. Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She became a nun at the age of 18 and trained in Ireland. She then went to India where she taught in a girls’ school. She was so distressed by the poor and dying in the streets of Calcutta that, in 1950, she founded her own order, The Missionaries of Charity to help look after the sick and dying. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. She died on September the 5th 1997, only a few days after the death of Princess Diana who, like many others, was inspired by her work. Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian racing driver, was born in 1960 in Sao Paulo. His family were well off and so were able to finance his early career. He started driving Go Karts (small cars that drive only on special tracks and not on the roads) and became the South American champion in 1977. Не then moved to Britain and started racing Formula One cars in 1984. He joined the McLaren team and won three world championships, in 1988,1990 and 1991. In 1994 he was killed in a crash while racing at Imola in San Marino. He is considered one of the greatest racing drivers ever. Diana, Princess Of Wales was the daughter of Viscount Althorp (Edward Spencer) and was born in a house on the Queen’s estate at Sandringham. As a child she played with the Queen’s younger children and met Prince Charles. They were married in July 1981 in St Paul’s Cathedral. Their wedding was seen on TV all over the world. Diana did a great deal of work for charity. Among the many causes she supported were children’s charities, AIDS charities and the campaign to abolish landmines. She was very popular with the public and also with the media but her marriage was unhappy and in 1996 she and Prince Charles were divorced. On August the 31st 1997 she was killed in a car crash in Paris. A charity trust has been set up in her name to continue the work that was important to her. Pablo Ruiz у Picasso is thought by many to be the greatest artist of the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga in Spain in 1881 and was the son of an art teacher, Jose Ruiz. He later used his mother’s surname, Picasso, to sign his paintings. He spent much of his life in Paris, France, where he moved in 1904. He was a painter, designer, graphic artist and sculptor. In his long life his work moved through a number of styles. He started with a post-impressionist style and later, with Georges Braque, developed a style which became known as Cubism. During the Spanish Civil War he painted one of his most famous paintings, Guernica, when the Basque town of Guernica was bombed. The painting symbolises the horror of war. Picasso spent his later years in the South of France and died there in 1973. His works of art are exhibited all over the world.