Saturday, December 15, 2007

WRITING A BIOGRAPHY: SALVADOR DALÍ

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 portrait of Gala, he ...."
To help you 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.
  • 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?
  • In 1925, who spent his holidays with him in Cadaques?
  • 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?
  • In 1945, he worked with another important Hollywood director, who was he? In which movie?
  • When did he marry Gala and when?
  • What happens in 1964?
  • What did he buy in 1969?
  • When did he die? Where?

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