Exercise 1. Find and correct the mistakes.
1. Playing the piano is as difficult as play the guitar. __________
2. Can a horse run same fast as a train? __________
3. You should try as hardly as you can. __________
4. My writing style is totally same from Tom’s. __________
5. His car runs the same speed from mine. __________
6. My best friend and I went to same school. __________
7. This fridge isn’t as good as mine old one. __________
8. Spending time on computers isn’t as entertaining than spending time with __________
friends.
9. She does not as famous as she was before. __________
10. This camera is as better as it was before. __________
Exercise 1. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words in the box.
radio and favourite good spare
A:
My (1) __________ type of music ranges from Rap and R&B to Punk (2) __________ Hard
Rock. The only genre of music I don’t really care for is Country. I think it’s a (3) __________
thing to have a wide ranging taste in music.
B:
I don’t really have a favourite type of music. If a song comes out on the (4) __________ and
it catches my attention, I find out the name and the artist or group who sings it and I then download
it. Eventually, these songs of different genres become what I listen to in my (5) __________ time.
Exercise 2. Read the following passage and write T (True) or F (False) for each statement.
In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the most famous pop group in the whole world. Since
then, there have been a great many groups that have achieved enormous fame, so it is perhaps
difficult now to imagine how sensational The Beatles were at that time. They were four boys from
the north of England and none of them had any training in music. They started by performing and
recording songs by black Americans and they had some success with these songs. Then they started
writing their own songs and that was when they became really popular. The Beatles changed pop
music. They were the first pop group to achieve great success from songs they had written
themselves. After that it became common for groups and singers to write their own songs.
1. Prior to The Beatles, it was usual for groups to write their own songs.
2. The Beatles were the most famous pop group in the 1960s.
3. The Beatles did not succeed with the songs by black Americans.
4. Some members of The Beatles studied music at school.
5. The Beatles achieved great success with the song they had written.
Exercise 3. Read the passage and answer the questions.
SCHOOL OF ROCK
Have you seen the film School of Rocks? It’s about a rock musician who became a teacher.
The film is based on a real music school which is run by Paul Green. Paul Green started the first
School of Rock in 1998 in Philadelphia in the USA. He gave students rock music lessons after
school, but he wanted to do more. Now he gives them the chance to play in rock concerts. “Some
of our students have never played in front of a real audience before. We teach them how to do it,”
he says. He has already taught hundreds of young people to be rock performers, and now there are
30 schools of rock in different towns in the USA.
1. How many students has he taught?
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2. How many schools of rock are there in the USA?
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3. When did Paul Green start his first rock school?
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4. What is the film School of Rock about?
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5. What does he teach his students to do?
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