BOB DYLAN Awarded Nobel prize in Literature

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Watch the first 448 minutes of this video and then answer these questions:

VOCABULARY:

TO BE CITED FOR: ser citado por

BUZZ: rumor
TO DELAY: retrasar
TO SPRING: saltar
GASPS AND CHEERS: gritos y aplausos
FIGUREHEAD: representante
ACCOLADE: premio
TO DESERVE: merecer
PEBBLE: piedrita
POUND: libra
CIVIL RIGHT: derechos civiles
APPLICABLE: apicable
TIMELESS: eterno

1.What was Bob Dylan cited for?

Bob Dylan was cited for creating new poetic
expressions.

2. For how long was delayed the Literature

prize?
The Literature prize was delayed for a week

3.Which was the surprise the jury sprung?

The surprise was when Bob Dylan won the prize

4.Why was he awarded?

Bob Dylan was awarded for having created new poetic expressions with integrate
American song tradition

5. Complete the sentence:

He couldn avoid the accolades
Hes never stopped performing, never stopped writing
6. Is the prize deserved in the opinion of Sid
Griffin, and why?
Yes, he thinks that he deserves. He thinks
that hes a Cervantes, hes Shakespearean
and the Wordsworth

7. What does he say about Bob Dylans

songs?
He says that apart from hes not really a
melodious person the piece of brilliant lyrics
and his songs will be listened in 200 years,
people will sing his songs in private, theyll
sing them in public and certainly single political rallies.

8. What its said in THE TIME magazine about him?

It is said in THE TIME that there is a list of 100 most influential people of the last
century and Dylan made that list.

9. Who featured 2016 Nobel Prize

Concert?
2016 Nobel Prize Concert was featured
by Janine Jansen (the violinist) and
Gianandrea Noseda (the condutor).

10.Where and when was held this

concert?
His concert was held tin the Stockholm
Concert Hall