Vlllth Standard English Class

5. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ:
He was a Colombian novelist, short story writer, screen
writer, and journalist. He was affectionately called
‘Gabo’. He was awarded the Neustadt International
Prize for Literature in 1972, and the Nobel prize for
Literature in 1982.His first major work is The story of
shipwrecked sailor, which he wtote as a newspaper
series in 1995.His best known novels include One
Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch
and Love in the Time of Cholera.

6. A Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10. crates

11. A slatted wooden case
used for transporting
goods.

12. Choppy waves

13. Rough waves caused by
the wind

14. Predicament

15. a difficult
situation

16. 1. Who is the central character of the story?
2. Who wrote the story “A Shipwrecked
Sailor”?
3. Was the narrator alone on the sea?

17. Write a news headlines
for the shipwreck?

18. Write about any
unexpected event
happened in your
life?

19. Thankyou