Celebrities
Emma Bunton
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Nicolas Cage
1 Label these pictures of famous people with the jobs in the list.
actor, ice-skater, film director, model, singer
2 Read the magazine article, then read the sentences below and
underline the correct words.
YOUNG AND SUCCESSFUL
Tara Kristen Lipinski is a famous American
Skater. Tara was born in 1982 and
ice Tara
she is an Olympic
gold medal winner.
Her father's name is Jack and her mother s name
Lipinski
is
Patricia. 1ara hasn't got
any brothers or sisters. She is
an only child.
Tara is short and slim. She has got long falr hair and ************************
big blue eyes. She is a kind and hardworking person.
Tara can cook very well. She can also Swim and
play tennis, but she cant play basketball. Her Steven Spielberg
favourite colour is purple and her favourite actor is
Tom Cruise
1 Tara is a famous Italian / American ice-skater.
2 Her father's/ brother's name is Jack.
3 She has got long brown/fair hair.
4 is a
5
Tara hardworking/ lazy person.
She can swim and play tennis/ basketball.
6 Her favourite colour is purple / blue.
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Celebrities
STUDY TIP a Fill in the correct colour from the list
for each bolloon, as in the example.
We use the verb to be to taik about somebody's black, greon, purplo, red, whte. pink, orange
brown, yeiow, blue
job eg He is an actor
nationality eg They are Greek
appearance eg l am tal and slim
cherect eg Susan is a very kind person
(1 blue.
3 a Match the countries to the nationalities.
1 France (F a Spanish
2 Tukey (T bEngish
3 Soan So c Greek
4Poland P French
5Engiand Eng e Polish
6 taly Finnish
7 Greece Gr 9 italian
8 Finiand F h Turkish
b Look a the informotion then below, ask
nd answer questios, as in the example. b)What is your
favourie colour?
0.g. My favounte coiouris yoiloer
1 Mane Finnish?
5 Look at the two people in the picures and
2 Carlos/ Spanish? complete the descriptions below.
3 EdwardTurkish?
4 Anouska/ French?
wavy hair
ata 5 Renata/ Greek?
6 Eler/Engish?
7 Gabrella / Italian?
8 Hassan / Polish?
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eg A s Mare Frrus?
Deard
o t e on1 Sre French s Carntos Spanish?
SB
SA Yes e
s
TOM ANNE
STUDY TIP
Tom is tall and plurnp He has
got
We use have has hair and brown He has also got a beard
got and
t o show possession eg ve got a car
t o talik atbout ou tamby eg ihave got wo sisters Anne is tail and sim She
t o describe physical
hair and green.
features g He has got biue eyes
Look at the
pictures on p. 8. Choose one
of the celebrities and describe him/her.
Celebrities
3 Emily/ ride a bicycle |X]/ paint * * ***********************
STUDY TIP 4
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Thomas/ windsurf
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/ play tennis
T h e verb can expresses ability. It is the same in all **************************************************
persons. e.g. I can swim. He can swim.
5 Anna/ paint /cook
Can always takes a bare infinitive. * *********************** ********.
e.g. She can read English. *******
6 Chris/ sing ] / ride a bicycle |X
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Match the activities (a-h) to the pictures
(1-8), then say three things you can do words from
and three things you can't do. 9 a) Look at the pictures and use
the list to fill in the gaps.
a play tennis d COOk 9 SWim
e ride a bicycle guitarist, photographer, mechanics, pilot,
Sing h paint clowns, artist
c dance8 fwindsurt
B Tom and led are.
Alam a
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5 Steve and I are
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Jill is alllsss **********
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Charlie is a
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Jack is a
STUDY TIP ************************
We use and to join similar ideas.
e.g. He can sing and dance. b) Match the following sentences to the
We use but to join contrasting ideas. pictures, then say what the people can
e.g. He can play tennis but he can't play footbal do.
1 Theymake people laugh.
can * * *******
8 Use the prompts to make sentences, as in She paint beautitful pictures.
can
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3 He can play the
the examples. guitar very well. ************************
We can fix cars. * *******
1 John/swim /cook 5 He can take good
photographs. ************************
John can Swim but he can t
cook. 6 Ican fily planes. ******** *
2 Sarah/ sing ] /dance
e.g. Clowns can make people laugh.
Sarah can sing and dance.
Celebrities
10 the text and do the erossword.
Read 13 a Read the following article and fill in the
list below.
gaps with words from the
Jimmy Moss is twelve years old and he is a shy boy. His
Tather, Donald Moss, is a hardworking pilol. Jimmy's blue, father's, slim, singer, favourite, fair,
mother, Shirley, is a writer and she is very clever. Jmmy mothers, Iriendly, brother, dance
has got 'one sister and one brother. His sister, Jil, is kind.
Emma Bunton is a famous
HIS brother, Peter, is friendly but he is also lazy.
Engiisn 1) .sSne
was born in 1976, and she is one of
the Spice Girls.
Her 2) *****************seoresasene Ndie Is
Trevor and her 3) .
name is Pauline. Emma ha_ got a
Nanie is Fu.
4 .
.
. hIS
)PEmma is short and 5) . . S n e nas gor
) . . . . . yes drlu l o 9 ) ssosmoanosseossans 11di
She is a 8). perso
********** she cant iceskate.
Emma can 9). is Madonna and her
ner 10).
. .
Singer
.
avourite colours are pink and white.
b) Answer the following questions.
Across Down
1 Which paragraph tells us Emma's name, nationality,
1 Donald works very job and year of birth?
3 Peter Is a nice person.
He has got a lot of hard. He's. 2 Which paragraph is about what Emma can/can't do
friends. Peter s . and her favourite singer and colours?
2 Jimmy is quiet and
5 Shirley can lean fast. nervous when he is 3 Which paragraph is about Emma's appearance and
She's with others. He's... character?
6 Jillis nice to other Peter doesn't like to 4 Which paragraph is about Emma's family?
people. She's.. Work. HeS..
14 Use the information and the plan below to
11 Read the text in Ex. 10 again and underline
wrire a magazine article about Nicolas
adjectives which describe personality. Use
the
Cage. Use picture from the
the File Photo
these adjectives to describe the members of section to decorate your project. Write your
your family. e.g. My father is clever. article in four paragraphs (60 80 words).
12 Put the words into the correct order.
1 John/ but/ can dance/ can't sing / he
Plan
ragraph 1: Name:
Nicolas Cage
2 Liz/ long /hair / and/ eyes/ brown/ has got/ blue
Nationality: American
3
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My/singer/ Sting/ tavourite / is
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Job: actor
Year of Birth: 1964
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Paragraph 2: Family: father (August), mother (Joy),
WRITING two brothers (Marc &
Christopher)
Paragraph 3: Appearance: tall, slim, short brown
TIP hair, green eyes
When we write an article about a person, we start by Character: kind, hardworking
writing the person's name, nationality, Job and year of
birth. In the second paragraph we write about his/her Paragraph 4: Can: paint
family. In the third paragraph we describe him/her. Can't: play footbal
We end our article by writing about the
person's Favourite singer: Elvis Presley
abilities, favourite actor/actress/singer/colour, etc.
Favourite colour: purple
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