English worksheets | Week 1 | 8th Grade | Unit 1

Warm Up I.- Listen to the explanations about each word and discover the 7 concepts and also the main topic.

Whats the topic today? Who are we going to talk about? John Lennons Biography
1.- John Winston Lennon, ( 9 October 1940 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, writer, songwriter, artist, actor and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. 2.- Lennon with Paul McCartney formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and wrote some of the most popular music in rock n roll history. 3.- Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and acted on television, in films such as A Hard Days Night; he wrote books such as In His Own Write, and he was in press conferences and interviews many times all over the world. He was controversial through his work as a peace activist, artist, and author.

4.- After The Beatles, Lennon released a successful solo career, during which he wrote and recorded many songs such as Give Peace a Chance and Imagine. After a self - imposed retirement from 1976 to 1980, Lennon reemerged with a comeback album, but he was murdered one month later in New York City on 8 December 1980. 5.- Lennon had two sons: Julian Lennon, with his first wife Cynthia Lennon, and Sean Ono Lennon, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. 6.- In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest British voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lennon number 38 on its list of The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time and ranked The Beatles at number one.

Vocabulary II.- Whats the meaning of these key words?

1.-Rock musician: 2.-Writer: 3.-Artist: 4.-Peace activist: 5.-Founding: 6.-Successful: 7.-Rock n roll: 8.-Press conferences: 9.-Controversial: 10.-Wrote: 11.-Songs: 12.-Album: 13.-Had: 14.-Yoko Ono: 15.-Greatest: 16.-Singer: 17.-Songwriter: 18.-Actor: 19.-Fame: 20.-Influential: 21.-Most popular: 22.-Rebellious: 23.-Interviews: 24.-Released: 25.-Recorded: 26.-Retirement: 27.-Murdered: 28.-Sons: 29.-Poll: 30.-British:

III.- Lets pronounce the key words now. IV.- Read the text on John Lennon and answer Whats the general idea of it? (Answer in Spanish).

V.- Translate each paragraph into spanish after your teacher read it for you. First, in oral way and then by writing. 1.-

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Round Up VI.- Solve this crossword in pairs.

(Famous, Songwriter, Peace, Artist, Murdered, The Beatles, Guitar)

VII.- Fill in the blanks.

1.- The text we studied today is a _________________. 2.- It tells ____________________s life. 3.- His life is told following a _________________. 4.- When reading a biography we can __________ a persons life. 5.- In an ___________________ I tell my own life. (Sequence, Autobiography, Biography, Know, John Lennon)