Biography practice (B1B)

Biography of Fernando Alonso (by Marcos M.):

"What do you feel when you are driving at 372 km/h? If you know the anwer of this question maybe you have been fined. But F1 drivers like Fernando Alonso know that feeling very well.

When he was young he loved cars. He was competing in kart championships until 1997, when he won the main Spanish kart championship. He has raced since then. While he was living in Asturias, he started to compete in F3. He achieved the first position in Belgium in this category. Fernando has competed in F1 since 2001, his first F1 team was Minardi, he signed for them in 2001. By 2006 he had signed with Renault, had won the F1 championship and had won the Principe de Asturias award. After he had won his second championship in 2006, he signed for the McLaren team. But that year was the worst in his career because he lost the championship after a lot of conflicts with his team partner, Hamilton. By 2009 he had signed for Renault again. He has been with Ferrari for seeral months. In 2010 he was living in Madrid when he married a well-known singer. Now he is competing with Ferrari but he hasn´t achieved his third F1 championship yet.
In conclusion, he is a great driver and a great person, I will cheer him for the rest of his career".


Biography of Angeline Jolie (by Alba M.):

"She has performed for 29 years, since she was 7. In 2000 she performed in "Tomb Raider", "Lara Croft" and since then, she has been famous. Soon after she started to be interested in charity activities. That year she joined ACNUR and later she was considered an important person in that organization. In 2002, Angelina met Afghan refugees in Pakistan and she donated 1 million dollars for their country.

While she was filming "Mr and Mrs Smith" her relationship with Brad Pitt started. By 2009 she had already filmed "Kung-Fu Panda" and she was working for a new film, "The Tourist", with J.Depp. Angelina had married twice before he relationship with Brad Pitt.

This year she hasn´t received any awards yet, but she has received one Acadmy Award and 3 Golden Globe awards since her career began. Now she´s filming her first movie as a director in Hungary".