Student’s Name: ________________________________________

LIFE AS A YOUTUBER – WORKSHEET

PREPARATION
1. Define the following words:
• YouTube: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
• YouTuber: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
• subscribers: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
• comments: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. Answer the following questions:

a) Do you watch videos on YouTube? If so, how often? ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
b) What kind of videos do you like to watch? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
c) Do you like or follow any YouTubers? If so, who? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
d) Would you like to become a YouTuber yourself? …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

COMPREHENSION
3. Read the text and match. What is each paragraph about?

Paragraph 1 Negative comments

Paragraph 2 The video-making process
Paragraph 3 Introduction
Paragraph 4 Encounters with fans
Paragraph 5 Advice on becoming a YouTuber

4. Read paragraphs 1 and 2 again. Answer the following questions.

a) How old is Jessii? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
b) Where is she from? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
c) What is her occupation? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
d) What are Jessii’s videos about? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
e) How many people watch her videos? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
f) When does she make her videos? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. Read paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 again. Are the following statements true (T), or false (F)?
a) People don’t recognize Jessii when she goes out. ______
b) Jessii once met a fan when she went to buy a coffee. ______
c) Jessii never got any negative comments. ______
d) When Jessii got hate comments, she changed the way she looks. ______
e) Jessii is more comfortable in her videos now than she was in the past. ______
f) She says you should make videos you think other people will like. ______
GRAMMAR
6. Find and mark these time expressions in the text:

o a few hours a week o from Tuesday to Friday o sometimes

o all of Sunday o in the past o the other day
o always o on Monday o usually
o every day o six days a week o when I first

7. Classify the words and phrases from activity 4 according to the chart.

PRESENT TIME EXPRESSIONS PAST TIME EXPRESSIONS

8. Look at the present and past forms of each of these verbs. Which form(s) are used in the text? Mark them.

PRESENT SIMPLE FORM PAST SIMPLE FORM

watch (paragraph 1) watch / watches watched
grow (paragraph 1) grow / grows grew
turn (paragraph 2) turn / turns turned
spend (paragraphs 2 & 3) spend / spends spent
wake up (paragraph 2) wake up / wakes up woke up
take (paragraph 2) take / takes took
edit (paragraph 2) edit / edits edited
meet (paragraph 3) meet / meets met
recognise (paragraph 3) recognise / recognises recognised
go (paragraph 3) go / goes went
drop (paragraph 3) drop / drops dropped
make (paragraphs 3 & 4) make / makes made
feel (paragraph 4) feel / feels felt
decide (paragraph 4) decide / decides decided
start (paragraph 5) start / starts started
want (paragraph 5) want / wants wanted
9. Choose the right translation for the sentences below. Pay attention to the verbs in bold and the underlined time
expressions.

a) The number of subscribers to her channel grows every day. b) The other day, I went to buy coffee.
 El número de suscriptores a su canal crece diariamente.  El otro día, voy a comprar café.
 El número de suscriptores a su canal crecía diariamente.  El otro día, fui a comprar café.

10. Look at the sentences from act 9, their translations, and their context within the text. Which one…
• …describes a routine action? ____ • …uses the Present Simple form of the verb? ____
• …narrates an event from the past? ____ • …uses the Past Simple form of the verb? ____

CONCLUSION
11. Write a brief summary of the text in Spanish (2 or 3 sentences).
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12. Complete the rules with PRESENT SIMPLE or PAST SIMPLE.

 We use the ___________________________ for description of routines.
 We use the ___________________________ for narration of past events.

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LIFE AS A YOUTUBER

Do you follow any YouTubers? Have you ever wondered what is it like to be one? That’s what
life is like for YouTube star, Jessii Vee. More than 150 million people watch her videos of funny
stories about herself, and the number of subscribers to her channel grows every day.
23-year-old Jessii from Ontario, Canada, turns her life into her work, six days a week. ‘I spend
all of Sunday having ideas for videos to film that week,’ says Jessii. ‘Then, on Monday, I wake up
early to start making the videos. Usually, a video takes just over an hour to make. I try to make
around five, so it takes most of my day. Then, from Tuesday to Friday, I edit them.’
Jessii also spends a few hours a week writing to her fans. Sometimes she meets fans because
people recognise her when she goes out. ‘The other day, I went to buy coffee,’ she says, ‘and the
girl serving me almost dropped my coffee when she saw it was me. She left the coffee shop to
meet me outside to take pictures. It always makes me happy to see my fans are happy.’
Online life isn’t all good. In the past, Jessii felt bad when people said negative things about her.
Some people made nasty comments about her appearance. It made her feel bad until she found a
different way to think. ‘People were negative about things that I can’t change. So I decided to love
those things and I became more confident in myself.’
If you are interested in becoming a YouTuber, Jessii has some advice about what kind of videos
to make. ‘Be yourself. Don’t change to try to make people like you. When I first started YouTube, I
wanted to look good and do things in ways that people would like. In my old videos, I don’t look
comfortable because I'm not being myself. But in my videos now, you can see that I’m 100%
myself.’ Jessii also says you should make your channel about something you really care about
because that will inspire people. ‘Make videos about something you love and your channel will
grow much faster, believe me!’