ELVIS LIVES!
He was the rock legend known as The King, she was a school-girl who loved him tender and swooned at the mere mention of his name. Now, thirty-nine years after she wrote to Elvis Presley promising to marry him when she grew up, Karen Golz has learned that her idol did not have a wooden heart. In a message from beyond the grave, his reply finally arrived.
It was as her 11th birthday approached in 1960 that Karen wrote to Elvis, who was serving as an American GI (=an enlisted member of a U.S. armed force) in Germany. In a letter posted to the house where he was staying, she wrote: “Dear Elvis, it´s my birthday soon and if you send me your autograph I promise I will marry you when I grow up”.
Anxious not to disappoint his young fan, he wrote a note back, scrawling her name and address in Germany, on the envelope. Inside, the note said: “Dear Karen, may you have a very happy 11th birthday – and a lot of Teddy Bears. Your friend, Elvis”. He gave the stamped and addressed envelope to his landlady to post. But she mislaid it and the letter lay undiscovered until the woman died. It was only when her family was cleaning out the house that the memento was rediscovered. Even though they realised its value to collectors, they donated the letter to the local Elvis Presley society.
There, club members spent weeks tracking down Karen. After receiving the letter Karen said: “My eyes filled with tears”. Though she plans to hang on to her letter, experts have valued it at around 3,500 pounds.
Questions
1. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only True or False.
a)Elvis never went to Europe. FALSE
b)When the letter was found the landlady´s relatives decided to keep it. FALSE
2. In your own words and based on the ideas from the text, answer the following questions:
a)Why did Elvis ´s letter take thirty-nine years to reach the person to whom it was addressed?
b)How did Karen react when she got Elvis ´s letter?
3. Find the WORDS in the text that mean:
a) fainted (paragraph 1) swooned
b) tomb (paragraph 1) grave
c) living (paragraph 2) staying / serving
d) trying to find (paragraph 4) tracking down
4. Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given:
a) Karen´s children did not know that THEIR mother had written to Elvis when she WAS eleven years old.
b) The letter WAS FOUND (find) in the attic when the old house WAS CLEANED OUT (clean out).
c) Thanks TO club members of the local Elvis Presley society, Karen COULD be tracked down without much difficulty.
d) Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech with the words given: “If you send me your autograph I will marry you”, Karen promised Elvis.
Karen promised THAT IF HE SENT HER HIS AUTOGRAPH SHE WOULD MARRY HIM.
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14. If you don´t behave, you WILL GET (get) a bad mark.
15. If you don’t have a job, you WILL FEEL (feel) useless.
16. If he hadn´t watched TV until midnight, he WOULDN´T HAVE BEEN (not be) late for work.
17. You WOULDN´T HAVE GOT(not get) the job if you hadn´t applied for it.
18. I won´t talk to you if you DON´T KEEP (not/ keep) my secret.
19. If you wait a minute, she WILL BE (be) here with Jack.
20. If he leaves now, I WILL NEVER TALK (never/ talk) to him again.
21. If you STOPPED (stop) smoking, you would feel much better.
22. If I had invited you to my wedding party, WOULD YOU HAVE GONE(you/go)?
23. If she DOESN´T WEAR (wear) a raincoat, she will get wet.
24. If we ARE (be) late for school, our teacher gets angry.
25. If you HAD BEEN (be) more careful, you might not have broken your glasses.
26. The sun burns your skin if it IS(be) very hot.
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complete information, Rooftop Restaurant
14.Hapston 15.Friday 16.midday/twelve/12 17.dessert 18.drink 19.two/2
-Explicación inicial sobre la voz pasiva en inglés.
PRONUNCIATION
bear /bear/, beard /biard/, beer /biar/, bird (berd/, blood /blad/,
busy /bisi/, butcher /buchar/, cousin /kasin/, deaf /def/,
drawer /droo/, enough /inaf/, famous /feɪmas/ ,flood /flad/,
future /fiuchar/, glove /glav/, heart /hɑaat/, hurt /hert/,
husband /hasband/, island /ailand/, jewellery /yúelri/,
literature /lítrechar/,lice /lais/, louse /laus/, month /manz/,
mice /mais/, minute /minit/, museum /miusíam/, nature /neichar/,
orange /orinch/, SATURDAY,scene /siin/, steak /steik/, talk /tok/,
tough /taf/, village /vilich/, walk /wok/, woman /wuman/,
women /wimin/, word /werd/, world /werld/, work /werk/
HOMEWORK
-Listening from EFGreenSTDNTS, LISTENING, track 1.45 para los
ejercicios b) y c) & track 1.46 para el ejercicio d)
-Reading multiple choice: “Making a difference”
