Listening comprehension by Martin Ehrensberger Drake, “the king of streaming music” Read On • September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 1 of 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PRE-LISTENING TASK 1: a) Matching 2 b) Memory 3 c) Discussion 4 c) Mind map 4 d) Presentations 5 TASK 2: a) Describing pictures 6 b) Discussion 6 c) Discussion 6 d) Writing 7 e) Pro/con discussion 8 VOCABULARY TASK 1: Noun salad 9 TASK 2: Verb matching 10 LISTENING COMPREHENSION TASK 1: Completing sentences 11 TASK 2: Tick true or false 11 READING-COMPREHENSION TASK 1: Reordering sentences 12 TASK 2: Reordering the text 13 TASK 3: Guided writing 14 POST-LISTENING Full text 15 Answer Key 16 Sources 20 © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 2 of 19 PRE-LISTENING TASK 1: a) Are you a pop music expert? Matching: Combine the pictures of famous pop music stars (PIC 1 – PIC 8) with their corresponding names. Be careful! There are more names than you need. PIC 1 PIC 2 PIC 3 PIC 4 PIC 5 PIC 6 PIC 7 PIC 8 a) Jason Derulo b) David Guetta c) Zayn Malik d) Drake e) Ed Sheeran f) Avicii g) Liam Payne h) Justin Bieber i) Justin Timberlake j) Felix Jaehn k) Bruno Mars l) Shawn Mendes Picture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Name © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 3 of 19 b) Memory game Use the photos and names to make a memory game. Play the game with a partner. a b c d e f g i j h © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 4 of 19 c) Discussion Discuss the following questions with your partner first and then in class. Always try to give reasons and explanations. Are you interested in today’s pop music? Do you know all the artists in the previous tasks? Have you got a favourite artist? What is your favourite kind of music? When and where do you listen to music? Do you still buy CDs? Do you use legal streaming platforms? Do you pay for them? Which platforms do you use? c) Mind map Create a mind map with your spontaneous ideas. Share your ideas with your partner first and then in class. Why do so many people like pop music? PIC 9 © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 5 of 19 Why do many people like rap music? PIC 9 d) Presentations Divide your class into groups. Each group picks one of the following artists and creates a presentation. a) Jason Derulo b) David Guetta c) Zayn Malik d) Drake e) Ed Sheeran f) Avicii g) Liam Payne h) Justin Bieber i) Justin Timberlake j) Felix Jaehn k) Bruno Mars l) Shawn Mendes Try to include the following aspects: - general facts - achievements - early life - public image - career - any other interesting info - personal life Create a PowerPoint presentation with pictures and perhaps videos, too. Duration: 4-5 minutes. Try to speak freely. © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 6 of 19 TASK 2: a) Describe the pictures to each other without showing them to each other. PIC 10 PIC 11 b) Discussion Discuss the following questions with your partner first and then in class. Always try to give reasons and explanations. What similarities and differences can you see in the two pictures? What do you know about the rapper Drake? Do you like rap music? Have you got a favourite artist? c) Discussion You want to take part in a “meet & greet” quiz competition. You can win a 10-minute interview with Drake. You can ask him five questions. Write them in the box below. Compare your questions with your partner’s. What similarities and differences are there? Give reasons for your questions. Create a class ranking with the most popular questions and discuss them in class. Interview questions for Drake 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ d) Wrting 4. ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 7 of 19 Write a letter to Drake’s management team asking for an interview. Include the list of the most popular questions in your class and tell the team about the reasons, too. You can use the phrases in the box below. Write about 200 words. Useful phrases Dear Sir or Madam I am writing to… I thank you in anticipation and hope to hear from you soon. Best wishes Kind regards Yours sincerely _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _____ d) Writing Imagine you are Drake. Write about a typical day, about your feelings and emotions, about being the most-successful rapper today. Write about 150 words. _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ VOCABULARY _________________________________________________________________________ TASK 1: Word salad _________________________________________________________________________ Read the definitions below and find the nouns in the grid. _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ __ © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 8 of 19 e) Pro/con discussion Read the statements below. Find five pros and five cons and discuss them with your partner first and then in class. Rap music is always aggressive and offensive. +++ PROS +++ --- CONS --- ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ Streaming is the best way to listen to music. +++ PROS +++ --- CONS --- ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ g) Writing. It would be great to be as famous as Drake. --- CONS --- +++ PROS +++ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ © 2018 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Bremen. All rights reserved. Copies of this material may only be produced by subscribers for use in their own lessons. Drake, “the king of streaming music” September 2018 Issue • page 5 page 9 of 19 VOCABULARY TASK 1: Crossword Puzzle Read the definitions below and find the corresponding nouns in the grid. ACROSS: DOWN: all the people who live in a particular a time when a particular situation 1 area, city or country; the total number of 2 makes it possible to do or achieve people who live there something a period of ten years, especially a a person who expresses opinions about 5 continuous period, such as 1910–1919 3 the good and bad qualities of books, or 2000–2009 music, etc. the quality of being faithful in your a piece of music or song on a record, 7 4 support of somebody/something tape or CD the way that you think and feel about a person who has come to live somebody/something; the way that you 8 permanently in a country that is not 6 behave towards somebody/something their own that shows