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3c Hit the charts

1 Warm-up

Answer the following questions.
• What kind of music do you like listening to?
• Do you know of any successful music groups?
• Why do you think they’re successful?

2 Vocabulary

Read the sentences and guess the meaning of the words/phrases in bold.
1. Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to this song but she didn’t compose the music.
2. Arctic Monkeys are going to release a new album soon and we expect it to be a great success.
3. George Ezra received an award for ‘Best Male Solo Artist’ of 2019.
4. Zayn Malik made his debut as a solo artist with the album Mind of Mine.
5. Lady Gaga’s album climbed to No. 1 in the charts and sold millions of copies worldwide.
6. Scarlett Johanson co-stars with Adam Driver in the film Marriage Story.
7. Imagine Dragons rose to fame with their first major hit Radioactive.

3 Listen  © MM Publications

A. Look at the pictures below which show three bands. Can you match them with the
captions 1-4? There is an extra caption which you do not need to use.

1. These ex-contestants of The X Factor,
who formed their band during the
Ezekiel/commons.wikimedia 2. Shortly after they reunited in 2008,
show are about to release their new
single. As they say, the show was just
the beginning of a successful career.

Spice Girls
they went on a world tour, which was
one of the best-selling concert tours
of the year.
marcen27/commons. wikimedia/CC BY 2.0 Little Mix 3. Two Grammys for the ‘Best
Performance by a group’ before they
split up in 2015.
4. They’ve been around for many years
but they remain one of the most
Muse/commons.wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 B. Now listen to a presenter of a music
popular recording and live
performance artists of all time.

TV channel describing the bands

40 Muse above and check your answers.

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