INSTITUTO NACIONAL

“GENERAL MANUEL JOSÉ ARCE”

Guía de Estudio N°1.
Año de
A, B, C, D,
Asignatura INGLÉS 1 1° Sección(es):
E, F, G
Bachillerato:
Contenido: Personality traits and Professional Background of Famous.

Indicador de logro:
Talking about famous people´s lives and accomplishments.

Docente: Doris Aguilar

Base Teórica:
1. Can you give some of your personal information?
2. What´s Mr. Israel professional information?
1. What famous people do you know?
2. What do you know about them?
* Develop the following reading, try to understand. You can use a dictionary to help you, then do the
following T- F exercise, answer the questions and write Mother Teresa´s personal and professional
information.

A WONDERFUL STORY
In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel prize for peace. This book tells about her life working with
poor people and how she finally became famous.

The story begins with her childhood in Yugoslavia.- She was born in 1910. At the age of 18 she
decided to become a nun. The catholic religion was very important to her. But more important was
helping other people. She specially wanted to help the poor people of India.

She first worked as a school teacher in India. But her students were not poor people. So finally,
she left the school. That was when she began her real life's work. She walked the streets in Indian
cities looking for people who needed help, she gave them food, clothing and medicine.

After a while, other nuns began to help Mother Teresa. She built hospitals and schools for the
poor. She also started a special group of nuns called “ The order of the Missionaries of Charity “.
They began to work with the poor people in many countries around the world.

Important people sometimes gave Mother Teresa money or cars for her work; but the money and
cars always went to the poor people. She lived very simply and worked very hard. The Nobel prize
gave her $100,000.oo, her order has used this money to continue her work.
 she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

This book provides many interesting details about her life work. We may not be able to give our lives
to the poor like Mother Teresa. But we can learn from her, even after her death.
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PEOPLE´S PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

POSITIVE NEGATIVE
1 loyal 1 disloyal
2 prudent 2 unwise
3 humble 3 cocky
4 reliable 4 unreliable
5 optimistic 5 pessimistic
6 brave 6 cowardly
7 generous 7 selfish
8 kind 8 cruel
9 grateful 9 ungrateful
10 fair 10 unfair
11 neat 11 messy
12 smart 12 dumb

What did Mother Teresa give the poor? She gave them food and medicine.
Mother Teresa didn´t help rich people.
Aplicación:
EXERCISE ONE:

INDICATION: Write T ( true), or F ( false ) as convenient in each space.

1. Mother Teresa helped many people around the world. .
2. Mother Teresa didn´t receive the Novel Prize for Literature. _ _ _.
3. Mother Teresa was famous for her religion. _ .
4. Mother Teresa was born in the 19th century. _ .
5. She decided to become a nun when she was 40 years. .
6. The most important thing for Mother Teresa was her church. _.
7. Mother Teresa´s students were not rich. _.
8. Mother Teresa was selfish. _ .
9. Mother Teresa lived in a luxury church. _ .
10. Mother Teresa died when she was an adolescent. _ .

EXERCISE TWO:
INDICATION: Answer the questions according to the reading.

1. Who was Mother Teresa?

2. Where did Mother Teresa live when she was a girl?
3. What was Mother Teresa?
4. What did Mother Teresa give the poor?
5. How old was Mother Teresa when she decided to become a nun?
6. How did Mother Teresa help the poor?
7. How did Mother Teresa live?
8. What was Mother Teresa´s personality?
9. Where did Mother Teresa look for the poor people?
10. What can we learn from Mother Teresa?

EXERCISE TRHEE:
INDICATION: Write Mother Teresa´s personal and professional information.

Bibliografía:
https://www.biography.com/religious-figure/mother-teresa
https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/past-tense-verbs.html