I can read a biography and understand what happened in a person's life and in which year.
What the text is about
A writer's biography
Now you will read the biography of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez: where he was born, where he studied, what he did for a living, and what he wrote.
It is all told in the preterite (pretérito indefinido), and the years are read whole: mil novecientos veintisiete.
Two phrases to help you read:
• trabajó de periodista — worked as a journalist (no article);
• a los veinte años — at the age of twenty.
Lesson notes
A writer's biography
Now you will read the biography of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez: where he was born, where he studied, what he did for a living, and what he wrote.
It is all told in the preterite (pretérito indefinido), and the years are read whole: mil novecientos veintisiete.
Two phrases to help you read:
• trabajó de periodista — worked as a journalist (no article);
• a los veinte años — at the age of twenty.