Key Benefit: What A Life! takes a truly fresh approach to making reading pleasurable and motivating. ESL students develop reading skills such as skimming and scanning, learn new vocabulary and enjoy reading about the lives of some of them most inspiration figures of all time. Key Topics: The biographies match all interest and cover subjects as diverse as history, politics, art and entertainment, athletics, and humanities. Some famous figures include Billie Holiday, Muhammad Ali, Gandhi, Princess Diana, and Shakespeare. Market: the first book in the series is for beginning ESL students.

Milada Broukal has taught ESL/EFL for 25 years, in the U.S.A., Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to Pearson Education's All about the USA series, she has written over 20 ESL texts in the areas of reading, writing, idioms, and TOEFL.

Unit 1 William Shakespeare Writer Unit 2 Louis XIV Royalty Unit 3 Florence Nightingale Nurse Unit 4 Emily Dickinson Poet Unit 5 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Composer Unit 6 Marie Curie Scientist Unit 7 Madam C.J. Walker Entrepreneur Unit 8 Albert Einstein Scientist Unit 9 Pablo Picasso Artist Unit 10 Jean Paul Getty Oil Executive Unit 11 Oseola McCarty Philanthropist Unit 12 Babe Didrikson Zaharias Athlete Unit 13 Minoru Yamasaki Architect Unit 14 Aiko Morita Entrepreneur Unit 15 Maria Callas Opera Singer Unit 16 Cesar Chavez Activist Unit 17 Anne Frank Diarist Unit 18 Roberto Clemente Baseball Player Unit 19 Jane Goodall Scientist Unit 20 Pele Soccer Player Unit 21 Muhammad Ali Boxer Unit 22 Anita Roddick Entrepreneur Unit 23 Maya Lin Architect Unit 24 Princess Diana Royalty Unit 25 Wang Yani Artist Answer Key Bibliography