Characteristics of biography and autobiography bilingual children

Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains the differences. Listen carefully and join in with the activities. What are the differences between biographies and autobiographies?

Characteristics of biography and autobiography bilingual children: Meanwhile, biographies are written in

Watch this Teacher Talk to find out. The first clip is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks and the second clip is written as if it were an autobiography. Can you spot the differences? We use buses every day to go to school or into town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important.

Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets. One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full.