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7. Great Achievements

Leading up to the Nobel Prize

6. Working Life

While you have mentioned a few achiements earlier on, now you focus on what led to the Prize.

Achiements?

Honorary awards?

Do mention significant contributions and recognitions, but if there are many, choose carefully and try to encompass as many as you can in as few words as possible.

8. Miscellaneous information?

Discoveries?

Publications?

Important collaborations?

A common utterance or specific example can

illustrate and bring life to an obituary whether

it is a quirky habit, a favorite recipe or a

touching expression of love.

5. Life after college (a few years after)

9. Nobel Prize...

For what?

Keep this rather brief

Committee's statement?

Fellow Laureates?

10. Conclusion

How to Write an Obituary

4.College and University

Beginning of the career? Important discoveries? Cooperations?

Why writing an obituary?

Excellent way of summarising and using an effective langauge. An obituary is not a biography, but a recounting of the most important events, qualities, contributions and connections in a person’s life.

3. Childhood

E -level: Students choose texts and spoken language from different media and in a relevant way can use the material selected in their own production and interaction. (+C- effective, +A- critical)

Home

Parents

"In a relevant way"= using your own words and constructing a text worth reading, your own take on your Laureate's life and achievements.

School

Make sure you add sources

1. Name and title (professional titel)

2. Time of death and place

(e.g. On September 24, 1987

at Sacret Heart Hospital in

Boston)

General guidelines for writing an obituary

Length: 500-600 words

If you wish, two columns (article style)

Title that summarizes what you have written

Follow the instructions here and make sure you structure your text accordingly!

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