We did many activities: Animal bookmarks, worksheets and we listened a funny song.
Pupìls of the sixth level are going to read the chapter one of The Little Prince in English at the reading time, because this is one of the activities of the library for all the school (in Spanish). Then they are going to complete a worksheet about Saint -Exupéry's life and a wordsearch with words about the book.
This activity is made for me with information that I found at the web.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the author and illustrator of one of the most well-known children's novels in the world: The Little Prince. What fans of the book may not know is that he ______ (Be) also a real-life hero and pilot!
Born in Lyons, France in 1900, Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry's family _______ (Be) filled with nobility. He ______(Be) one of five children. His father, Viscount Jean de Saint-Exupery, ______(Be) an executive with an insurance company who ______(die) when the author ______(Be) very young. Marie de Fonscolombe, his mother, ______(Move) with the children to Le Mans a few years after her husband's death. He ______(Spend) much of his childhood with his sisters, aunts, and cousins before attending a boarding school in Switzerland in 1915.
Saint-Exupéry then ______ (Study) architecture at ecole des Beaux-Arts before entering the military in 1921. He ______(train) as a pilot and ______(Make) his first solo flight in July of that year. The next year, after he ______(Obtain) his license, he was asked to transfer to the air force. By then he ______(Be) engaged to Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, and she and her family ______(Object) to the risks ______(Involve) in joining the air force. Swayed by their protests, he ______(Take) an office job in Paris.
Later, his engagement ______(Be) ______(Break) and he ______(Have) difficulty settling on a career path. In 1926, Saint-Exupery ______(Begin)) to fly again - as a pilot who delivered mail for a commercial airline. That same year, his first short story, L'Aviateur, which means "The Airman", ______(Be) ______(Publish) in a literary magazine. He ______(Spend) the next three years flying the mail over Africa and in 1928 he ______(Become) the director of a small airfield in the Sahara Desert.
Saint-Exupery ______(Love) the isolation of the desert and ______(Write) his first novel, Southern Mail, while living there. He ______(Move) to South America in 1929 and ______(Be) given the job of director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company. This ______(Give) him plenty of opportunities to fly. During this time he ______(Write) Night Flight, an award winning novel that ______(Be) made into a Hollywood movie starring Clark Gable.
In 1931, Saint-Exupery ______(Marry) Consuelo Gómez Carillo. He ______(Continue) to fly the mail and later ______(Serve) as a test pilot for several airlines. He ______(Continue) to write articles during this time. He ______(Have) an accident when flying over North Africa in 1935, while trying to fly from Paris Saigon faster than anyone else, and ______(End) up walking in the desert for days before being rescued by a caravan. If you have read The Little Prince, you might recognize this as the inspiration for the opening scenes.
In 1943, his most famous work, The Little Prince, ______(Be) published. It is a story about a pilot who has crashed in the desert and the little prince from another planet who tells the pilot of his adventures on Earth.
Saint-Exupéry ______(Leave) on a flight over southern France on July 31, 1944 and ______(Be) either shot down or ______(Crash) - it is unclear what ______(Happen). His plane ______(Disappear) into the Mediterranean Sea. Over the years, various people claim to have found artifacts and wreckage, but none have been verified. The crash still remains clouded in mystery.
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