Unit 8 VocabularyTypes of music

1 Look at the pictures and complete the words for the types of music.

1 h e a v y m e t a l 5 h _ _ h _ _

2 p _ _ 6 r _ _ _ _ _

3 c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 s _ _ _ _

4 j _ _ _ 8 o _ _ _ _

2 Music quiz. Choose the correct word.

Mozart and Bach wrote pop / classical music.

1 The home of country / hip hop music is

Nashville, Tennesee in the USA.

2 Salsa / Country is a popular dance music from

Latin America.

3 Bob Marley played reggae / heavy metal music.

4 Jazz / Opera bands often play trumpets and

saxophones.

5 Hip hop / Classical music became popular in

New York in the 1980s.

6 Metallica are a heavy metal / gospel band.

Musical instruments

3 Look at the pictures and complete the words.

1 t a m b o u r i n e 7 v _ _ _ _ n

2 c _ _ r _ _ _ t 8 c _ _ _ o

3 t _ _ m _ _ _ e 9 g _ _ _ _ r

4 h _ _ p 10 s _ _ _ p _ _ _ e

5 d _ _ _ _ 11 t _ _ _ _ _ t

6 f _ _ _ e 12 c _ _ _ _ l

4 Write true or false after each sentence.

Cellos and violins are wind instruments. false

1 A violin is a bigger than a cello. _______

2 A guitar and a harp are both percussion

instruments. ________

3 A flute is a wind instrument. _________

4 Drums and cymbals are percussion instruments.

___________

5 A tambourine is a wind instrument. _________

6 A trombone and a clarinet are both string

instruments. _________

7 A harp is a string instrument. _________

8 A tambourine is smaller than drums. _______

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Unit 8 GrammarPast simple affirmative (regular verbs)

1 Put the verbs in the box into the past simple. Then put them in the correct column in the table.

regular final -e final

consonant

+ y

short

vowel +

consonant

called

________

________

________

________

________

danced

________

________

________

copied

________

________

chatted

________

________

2 Complete the sentences with the past simple forms of verbs from the box in exercise 1.

She s tudied hard and passed her exams.

1 We d_________ at the party.2 Everybody c______ at the end of the concert.3 Her parents m_________ at St Mary’s church

in 1978. Her mum had a white dress.4 I v_________ my grandparents last

weekend.5 He c_________ his notes into his notebook.6 The singer r_________ her first album in

2009.

3 Write sentences in the past simple.

We / chat / for two hours.

We chatted for two hours.

1 They / practise / for two hours yesterday.________________________________________

2 I / live / in France for a year.________________________________________

3 You / play / very well last weekend.________________________________________

4 She / stop / because she was bored.________________________________________

5 We / watch / a lot of TV yesterday.________________________________________

6 He / marry / Joanna last year.________________________________________

Past simple affirmative (irregular verbs)

4 Write the past simple form of the irregular verbs in brackets.

We bought (buy) a lot of clothes yesterday.

1 You __________ (win) the lottery yesterday!

2 They ________ (write) to each other for twenty

years.

3 I _________ (see) you in the city centre at the

weekend.

4 They __________ (hear) a very loud noise.

5 I __________ (read) that book last year.

6 He __________ (go) to New York last week.

5 Complete the text with the past simple of the words in brackets.

Beyoncé became (become) famous as part of the

group Destiny’s Child. She (1) __________ (be) in

Destiny’s Child for nearly ten years. They

(2) __________ (make) many albums. She

(3) __________ (have) a lot of success when she

(4) __________ (start) her solo career. She

(5) __________ (sing) ‘Crazy in Love’, which

(6) __________ (go) to number one in the music

charts. She (7) __________ (meet) rapper Jay-Z in

the 1990s and they (8) __________ (marry) in

2008. They (9) __________ (buy) a house together

in London.

Adverbs of manner

6 Change the adjectives in the boxes into adverbs and use them to complete the sentences.

She sang terribly but we all loved her.

1 We walked very __________ so it took a long

time to get there.

2 Rob did his homework __________ so the

teacher asked him to do it again.

3 They ran very __________ and got there before

the bus.

4 I speak Portuguese __________ because my

mother is Brazilian.

5 He spoke so __________ nobody could hear

him.

6 The Roses’ album went __________ to number

one in the music charts

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call chat clap copy dance finish like

live marry play practise record

stop study visit watch

fast bad slow terrible

good quiet straight