Penguindossiers.com Factsheet level E Activities 1 2 3 Madonna—she’s still cool! 4 1 Put these films, albums and songs in the (c) Madonna ….. 5 order that Madonna did them. Write the letter (i) is less interested in success than she of each title next to the correct number. Use was before. 6 (i) for the first title, and so on. (ii) is unhappy because the critics don’t (a) Music like her. PRE-INTERMEDIATE (b) Shanghai Express (iii) is happy because she loves her (c) The Next Best Thing husband. (d) Ray of Light (e) Evita 3 Fill the gaps with these prepositions. Use one (f) Beautiful Stranger of the prepositions twice. (g) Madonna to for at after in with (i) (a) Critics laughed .……. Shanghai Express. (ii) (b) Young fans don’t agree …….. the critics. (iii) (c) Madonna became a singer ……..a few years as a dancer. (iv) (d) Madonna made her first album …….. (v) 1983. (vi) (e) Madonna won awards …….. Evita and (vii) Beautiful Stranger. (f) Madonna has agreed …….. act …….. a serious film. 2 Complete these sentences. (a) Women loved Madonna in the 1980s because… 4 You are Madonna. Write a letter to a friend about your life this year. Write about: (i) she had a good voice. (ii) she was a family girl. (a) your news (iii) she made them feel good. (b) your feelings (c) the critics (b) Madonna’s new album, Music,… (d) your plans (i) is unpopular with the critics. (ii) is unpopular with everybody. (iii) has won an award. Visit our websites: penguinreaders.com | penguinenglish.com | penguin.co.uk | longman-elt.com © Pearson Education Limited 2000 Penguindossiers.com Factsheet level E Teacher’s notes 1 Madonna—she’s still cool! 2 3 that they use one of the prepositions twice. 4 Before reading the Dossier When they finish, they read the Dossier again to check their answers. Ask your students these questions: 5 • Who are your students’ favourite singers? Question 4 • 6 What do they know about Madonna? This question tests student’s creative ability • Do they like her? Why, or why not? and writing skills. This can be set as a class or homework activity. Ask students to plan their PRE-INTERMEDIATE letter first. Before they start writing, check that they know how to set out a letter. Also check After reading the Dossier they understand that the letter will be informal. ie the same as natural conversational English. Question 1 They will use contractions, phrasal verbs, direct questions and emphatic adverbs. Discourse This question tests the students’ understanding markers will be natural in spoken English (eg of the Dossier. by the way, what’s more, anyway, funnily enough etc.). However, there will still be Students read the Dossier. Then ask them to paragraphs and correct sentence structure. answer Question 1 from memory. Remind Teachers should mark this work for grammar, them they have to put the titles in the order range of vocabulary, content (development and Madonna did them, not in the order they are in organization), register (informal) and the Dossier. When they finish, they check their presentation. Recommend a set number of answers with another student or pair. Finally, words (120-180) and time limit (45 minutes). they read the Dossier again to check their answers. Question 2 This question tests the students’ understanding of the Dossier in more depth. The students answer the questions on their Answers to activities own. Next, they compare their answers with another student. They discuss any differences Question 1 in opinion. Finally, they read the Dossier again (i) g (ii) b (iii) e (iv) d (v) f (vi) c (vii) a to check their answers. Question 2 a) iii b) i c) i Question 3 This question checks prepositions. Tell the Question 3 students to work from memory. Remind them a) at b) with c) after d) in e) for f) to / in Visit our websites: penguinreaders.com | penguinenglish.com | penguin.co.uk | longman-elt.com © Pearson Education Limited 2000 .