Learning activity 4

Evidence: Consolidation activity

Stage 1: The person I admire the most

A. What to do?

Write a biography of the person you admire the most. This person can be, for
example, a public figure, a celebrity, a politician, a world leader or someone
close to you, a relative.

Note: The person you choose cannot be the same chosen for Evidence 3
of this learning activity.

B. How to do it?

You need to carry out some research in order to collect the necessary
information for writing the biography. If the person chosen is a public figure,
you can surf the web in order to get the details you are going to include. On
the contrary, if the person chose is someone you know personally, you can set
up an interview in order to ask the person the questions you may have about
his / her life.

Here is an outline we suggest following for writing the biography. We have

chosen Charles Darwin (public figure), an influential scientist of the
nineteenth century, as example for the outline.

Suggested outline
1. Early life and education.
2. Voyage of the Beagle.
3. Darwin's evolutionary theory.
4. Overwork, illness, and marriage.
5. Natural selection.
6. Geology books, barnacles, evolutionary research.
7. Publication of the theory of natural selection.
8. Responses to publication.
9. Descent of man, sexual selection, and botany.
10. Death and funeral.
Stage 2: My admiration for…

A. What to do?

In this section, you will record a tape or video in which you orally present the
person you chose in Section 1. For this part of the evidence you need to
present the biography as well as explain and illustrate the reasons why you
admire this person.
He was born on august 4, 1961 in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. Son of Barack Obama sr a Kenyan economist ; and
stanley Ann Dunham, an AMERICAN anthorpologist.

When he was two years old, his parents separated. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, and 1967 he moved with his family to Indonesia, the
country of origin of his new husband.

Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to live in Honolulu with his maternal grandparents and in
1971 he was enrolled in the fifth grade of the Punahou School, where he remained until his graduation from high school in 1979.

Once he finished his baccalaureate, he moved to the Angels and began his studies at occidental college for a period of two years, after which he
transferred to Columbia University in New York City, in the career of science politics. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in liberal
Arts from Columbia in 1983 ; I also work at the business International Corporation and the New York Public interest Research Group; at the
end 1988 he studied law at Harvard law school where he was selected as editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in 2003 and was finally elected to the Senate in November 2004.

In 2008 he became the candidate of the Democratic Party and on November 4 of the same year he became the elected president of the United
States after defeating the Republican john McCain.

He also received the Nobel Peace Prize.

During his two mandates he promoted economic policies such as the Reinvestment and recovery act of 2009, the Unemployment Insurance
Employment Reauthorization and creation Act, the patient Protection law and Affordable medical assistance, increased the presence of US
troops in Afghanistan signed the new START lll

treaty on arms control with Russia, announced the death of terrorist Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, also created relations between Cuba and
the United States in 2015 and finally on January 20, 2017, he left the white house..

No I am going to talk about the characteristic that I admired about him

I admire President Barack Obama because he was a great leader. Since he was very cautious in making important decisions without harming
the integrity of his nation., for example : by ordering US military intervention in the Libyan conflict in the increase of US troops in
Afghanistan . In addition, he benefit to the population of his country with the law of patient protection and affordable Health Care, which
allowed access to 20 million people to health coverage that until then did not have it . it also stabilized the US economy that was damaged
by the financial crisis, through the stimulus policy, it generated conditions that have allowed the creation of employment for 75 consecutive
months.