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Video Guide Level: P1 Focus on Past tense and Biographies

/ Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Vicerrectoría Académica
Dirección de Extensión Universitaria
Language Center - English Program /

Life and career or Bob Marley

A. BEFORE YOU WATCH

Do you like music? Do you play any musical instrument? How do you feel when you listen or play music?

What is your favorite music? Why?

Do you have a favorite singer or band?

How much do you know about your favorite singer or band?

Do you know where these people were born?

How did they become famous?

Where were they born?

Have you heard about Robert Nesta?

B. VOCABULARY:

Pursue (verb): To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase. To carry on; continue.

Come out (phrasal verb): To take place; happen.

Departure (noun): an act or instance of departing or leaving.

Release (verb): To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution. To make known or available.

Lead (noun): The first or principal position. One occupying such a position; a leader.

Steady (adjective):firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium.

Embrace (verb): To catch or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection. To surround; enclose.

Success (noun): The achievement of something wanted, planned, or tried.

Review (noun): A report or essay giving a critical estimate of a work or performance.

Redemption (noun): The act of saving. Deliverance from sin; salvation.

C. WHILE YOU WATCH

C.1. Listen and take notes to answer the following questions:

  1. What was his complete name?

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  1. When was he born?

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  1. Where was he born?

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  1. Where did he move as a teenager to pursue music?

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5. When did his first recording come out and under which name?

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  1. Who did he start playing with?

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  1. Who did he marry?

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  1. Where and when did he die?

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  1. Name at least 5 of his albums?

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C.2. Listen carefully and take notes to complete the following chart. Then, compare your notes with a partner.

Listen to past tense verbs and classify them between Regular and Irregular Verbs in the following chart.

Regular verbs / Irregular verbs

After, classify Regular verbs according to their final sound in Past in the following chart.

/-ed/ / /d/ / /t/

D. DISCUSSION

D.1. Based on what you have seen on the video, discuss(in small groups) the following questions with your partners.

  • Do you know more information about other famous artists?
  • Create a biography about any person you know, a friend, relative or partner?
  • What about you? What is your own biography? What can you tell your partners about your life?
  • Mention aspects such as:

-Where you were born

-Where you were born

-Where you grew up

-Childhood memories

-Teenage years

-School

-High School

-University and any other aspect you consider important to mention.

D.2. Create a presentation: Individually, in pairs or small groups, create a presentation about your favorite artist or a person you admire and tell your classmates and teacher about him/her. Include as many aspects you consider important. Your presentation can last from 5 to 10min.

Answer Key

C. WHILE YOU WATCH

C.1. Listen and take notes to answer the following questions:

  1. What was his complete name?

His complete name was Robert Nesta Marley

  1. When was he born?

He was born on Feb. 6th 1945

  1. Where was he born?

He was born in Nine Mile in Saint Ann Jamaica

  1. Where did he move as a teenager to pursue music?

He moved to Kingston

  1. When did his first recording come out and under which name?

His first recording came out in 1962 under the name Bobby Martell

  1. Who did he start playing with?

He started playing with Joe Higgins, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh

  1. Who did he marry?

He married Rita Anderson

  1. Where and when did he die?

He died in a Florida Hospital, on May 11th 1981

  1. Name at least 5 of his albums?
  1. Judge Not
  2. The Wailing Wailers
  3. Soul Rebels
  4. Soul Revolution
  5. Catch a fire
  6. Natty Dread
  7. Exodus
  8. Kaya
  9. Survival
  10. Uprising

C.2. Listen carefully and take notes to complete the following chart. Then, compare your notes with a partner.

Listen to past tense verbs and classify them between Regular and Irregular Verbs in the following chart.

Regular verbs / Irregular verbs
moved
introduced
received
recorded
released
formed
married
reunited
helped
continued
returned
turned
died
appeared
created
embraced
contained
raised / was
came out
became
began
left
spoke

After, classify Regular verbs according to their final sound in Past in the following chart.

/-ed/ / /d/ / /t/
recorded
reunited
created / moved
received
formed
married
continued
turned
died
appeared
contained
raised / introduced
released
helped
embraced

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Sandra Rojas