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• Have you ever seen a celebrity in person? What did you do?
• Which celebrity would you like to meet? What would you do if you
could spend a day with this person?
• If you could influence people like a celebrity does, how would you use
it for the benefit of the planet?
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If you like to watch Hollywood movies (I do!), especially to play football. Dwayne really liked to play football, so
action
(1)______________ movies, then you happier
he became (12)______________, he made more friends,
(2)______________
probably already know the face of Dwayne his grades got better, and he later played football in
Johnson. You might also know that he’s American, and college. In college, he was already big: he was 193
nickname
that his (3)______________ is ‘the Rock”. However, centimeters tall, and he (14)______________
(13)______________ weighed
you might not know that he is also a Canadian kilograms
113 (15)______________, and so after college he
citizen
(4)______________. Here are a few more things that became a wrestler (like his father and grandfather).
you might not know about this man. He was Many people say that he was one of the best wrestlers
born
(5)______________ in 1972, in a small city called in the (16)______________.
world Dwayne was happy as a
Hayward (near San Francisco) in California. Because wrestler, but he wanted to try something new. That’s
Dwayne’s father was a (6)______________,
wrestler Dwayne when he decided to try acting, and in 2002 he
often travelled with his family (parents, brother and (17)______________
starred in a big Hollywood movie called
sister) and lived in many other cities when he was The Scorpion King. The movie was very
young
(7)______________. He even lived in New Zealand for popular
(18)______________ and Dwayne went on to make
a short while. Moving around so much was many more movies that are loved by people all around
difficult
(8)______________ for Dwayne because it was not the world. Dwayne Johnson has had many jobs, but he
friends
very easy for him to make many (9)______________. says that, “being a father is the greatest job that I have
fought
He was often angry and (10)______________ with ever had.” He has three children and now lives in Florida.
other people, and so the police (11)______________
arrested What is Dwayne’s advice on how to be successful? He
him several times. However, things started to change surround
says, “(19)______________ yourself with
when he was in high school, when he started (20)______________
brilliant people. And go to work!”
ANSWER KEY
1. action 11. arrested
2. probably 12. happier
3. nickname 13. centimeters
4. citizen 14. weighed
5. born 15. kilograms
6. wrestler 16. world
7. young 17. starred
8. Difficult 18. popular
9. friends 19. surround
10. fought 20. brilliant
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