Booster: Writing About Celebrities

Today we put all of our knowledge of celebrities in action by answering some questions about fame and who we admire and writing down our thoughts. Here is what we came up with:

• What makes someone a celebrity?

• Giacomo likes famous athletes. His favorite team is Fiorentina. Soccer players are famous because they make goals. They must train very hard to become famous players.

• Celebrities need to be good at something.They need to work hard to be good at something.

•  Gordon Ramsey is a famous chef. He has a T.V. show, and yells a lot

• Which celebrities do you admire? Why?

• Anna’s favorite celebrity is Arianna Grande. She is a singer and an actress. She is an entertainer.

• She is nice, and she sings very well. She is talented.

• Daniel Radcliffe is also talented.

• Sherlock Holmes is also talented, even though he is imaginary. He is a detective, AND he plays the violin!

• We admire authors who write books. Some of our favorite books are Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Star Wars, the book.

Emma Watson is Vittoria’s favorite actress. She’s very good at acting. She is talented, too.L

Imagine I am your favorite celebrity.

Can you ask me about my life, and how I achieved success?

Imagine I am a football player.

    What is your training routine?

How about I am a singer, like Arianna Grande. What do you want to know about me?

    What inspired you to become a singer.

    What motivated you to adopt seven dogs!?

Would you like to be famous? For what?

• Giorgio wants to be a YouTuber. He wants to be an expert on video games.

• Anna would like to sing and dance on TikTok.

• Stella would like to be a star volleyball player. 

• Esther wants to be a police officer… a famous one!

• Edoardo doesn’t know what he wants to be… but he does want to be famous!

Finally we talked about some other kinds of celebrities, people who are famous because they really try to make the world a better place. Here are a few of our favorites:

Rafael Nadal won the French Open, but he is also very kind, thoughtful, and generous.

He started a charity to help people in need during the pandemic.

We definitely think Greta Thunberg is a celebrity! We like her message that "you are never too small to make a difference."

We have heard of Bill Gates before, but we didn't really know who he was. We learned that he is a leader and an innovator. You can become famous for inventing something useful!

Finally we learned about Christiane Amanpour. She is a journalist. Journalists bring us news from around the world and we can learn a lot from them. We liked her message, too: "I believe in being truthful, not neutral."

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