Biographies: Life Stories with Past Simple konu anlatımı

was / were born: Atatürk was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki. / Where were you born? – I was born in Konya.

Life events: be born → was born, go to school → went to school, graduate from → graduated from, start a job → started, get married → got married, have children → had, win an award → won, become famous → became, write a book → wrote, die → died

Reading years:

• 1881 → eighteen eighty-one · 1934 → nineteen thirty-four
• 2005 → two thousand and five · 2024 → twenty twenty-four
• in + year: in 1938 · on + date: on 10th November 1938

“Aziz Sancar was born in Savur, Mardin, in 1946. He was a hard-working student. First, he studied medicine at İstanbul University and worked as a doctor for a short time. Then he went to the USA and studied biochemistry. After that, he became a professor. He researched how cells repair damaged DNA. In 2015, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Finally, he gave his Nobel medal to Anıtkabir as a gift to Atatürk.”

Sequencers: first → then → after that / later → finally

Another life story: “Halide Edib Adıvar was born in İstanbul in 1884. She wrote many novels, such as Sinekli Bakkal. During the War of Independence, she worked for the national struggle. She died in 1964.”