You are going to do an Open Office about Salvador Dalí. You must do this project in pairs
Visit the Fundació Gala-Dalí website
Answer the following questions by reading carefully the information given.
His Biography
To write a biography you must explain the most important things about the life of the person in question. You must use the Past SImple. Sometimes you can also use the Past Continuous , for example, to explain something that happened while the person in question was doing another thing. For example: " WHile he was painting his famous Gala's portrait, he ...." To help you to write Dalí's biography, I suggest you some questions to answer. You can find all the information at the following address: http://www.salvador-dali.org/mapa.html REMEMBER: DO NOT COPY AND PASTE. Just write easy sentences in the past. If you answer all this questions with full answers, you will end up with a nice biography.
How to write a biography
Where was he born? When?
Where did he study to become a painter?When?
When did he receive his first award?
Who were his friends?
When did he visit Paris for the first time? Who did he met there?
When did his paintings show its first surrealists' influences?
When did he met Gala?
He did two films with Buñuel, an important Spanish director, which were they?
Later he will also take a part in the screenplay of a Hollywood movie, which one? With whom?
When did he marry Gala and when?
What happens in 1964?
What did he buy in 1969?
When did he die? Where?
Questions
Dalí also made a lot of exhibitions, as you can read in his biography, you can also mention some of them. Salvador Dalí was a controversial figure, but now that you have read his biography, we must admit that he was a real genius, who did a lot of things, not only paintings: jewels, movies...GIVE YOUR OPINION ABOUT HIM. ADD ALSO A LIST OF YOUR FAVOURITE PAINTINGS. Here, you can watch and listen to an interview to Salvador Dalí in English. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/dalis1.shtml
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