PULSE BASICS UNIT 8

READING

1 Lee la biografía y responde las preguntas.

1 When was Beyoncé born?

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2 What was the name of her first group?
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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is a singer-songwriter, record

producer and actress, who started her career at the age of
nine. She supports a long list of charities around the
world.

Beyoncé was born in Houston, Texas in 1981, and she has always loved
singing. Before becoming a solo artist, she started her career in 1990 as an
original member of the group Destiny’s Child. After many successful
achievements with the group she started her solo career in 2004, when she
was 23 years old.
Beyoncé supports a long list of charities, including Oxfam and Stand Up To
Cancer, but she is probably best known for setting up the Survivor
Foundation in 2005, which helps survivors of Hurricane Katrina and other
disasters. Since then she has raised money and provided support for many
different charities around the world, especially those which help women and
children.

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2 Vuelve a leer la biografía del ejercicio 1 y subraya las respuestas correctas.

Beyoncé started singing at the age of

a) eight b) nine c) seven.
1 Beyoncé was born in
a) Houston b) England c) Washington.
2 Beyoncé started her career as a member of
a) Oxfam b) Destiny’s Child c) Houston.
3 The Survivor Foundation helps
a) singers b) cancer victims
c) natural disaster victims.
4 Beyoncé particularly tries to support
a) women and children b) world peace c) families.

WRITING

A biography
3 Lee la información de esta entrevista con Angelina Jolie y completa el
siguiente texto.

Interviewer: Where did you study?

Angelina: I studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Interviewer: How many children have you got?
Angelina: I have six kids.
Interviewer: When did you start to help people in crisis?
Angelina: When I was filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia.
Interviewer: When did you start to do charity work?
Angelina: In 2001.
Interviewer: What is the name of the foundation you started?
Angelina: It’s called the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Interviewer: What does the organization Doctors Without Borders do?
Angelina: It helps victims in more than 60 countries.

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Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress and model. At the beginning of her
career, Angelina Jolie trained at (1) the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute to be an
actress. She is now the mother of (2) __________________________.
Jolie first started to help people in crisis when (3) __________________________.
She started work to protect refugees after seeing their terrible living conditions.
Jolie has done charity work since (4) __________________________ and she has
visited countries around the world. She has met refugees and people in need from
more than 20 different countries.
She started (5) __________________________, which is a charity which wants to
help people in extreme poverty and protect natural resources and wildlife. Since
then, this charity has donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders. The
organization (6) __________________________ and has helped victims of the
Haiti earthquake.

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