Examples 3 Biographical Recount M2 LA 2

Instructions

Topic	Galileo Galilei
Orientation	Galileo Galilei was one of the first modern scientists. He was born in  Pisa, Italy, in 1564.
Record of Events	(1) At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the way the earth and other planets move  around the sun. He found out several important facts about our world. He also started a new way of working in science. Before Galileo, scientists  did  not  do  experiments.  They  just  guessed  about  how something  happened.  Galileo  was  different.  He  did  not  just  make guesses. He did experiments and watched to see what happened. (2) Galileo is famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to do experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law off falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.  (3) The life of a scientist was not always easy in the 1500s. For example, Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the same as the religious ideas at the time. Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole life he had to worry about this. He even  went  to  prison  for  a  while.  But  no  one  could  stop  him  from thinking. He continued to look for scientific answers to his questions about the world.

From the recount text entitled ‘Galileo Galilei’, some explanations can be made as follows (Look at some words in bold, italics, or underlined as examples) :

·         The text focuses on a specific person, namely ‘Galileo Galilei’ represented by ‘he’ in the whole text (in bold).

·         There are a number of action verbs used in the text such as ‘studied’, ‘move’, ‘found’, ‘started’, ‘do’, ‘did’, and ‘watched’ (in italics).

·         There are some adverbs of time and place in the text such as ‘in Pisa, Italy’, ‘in 1564’, ‘around the sun’, ‘from a high place’, ‘at the same speed’, and ‘in 1500s’ (underlined).

·         The sentences are mostly formed in past tense like ‘studied’, ‘found’, ‘started’, ‘did’, ‘watched’, and ‘happened’ (in italics).

·         The text involves temporal sequence such as ‘at first’, ‘later’, ‘before’, and ‘during’ (underlined).

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