INGLÉS - 3 E/F

PAST TENSE 3 E/F

READING COMPREHENSION

THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL

He shook his hips in a sexy way, and the girls went crazy. The boys cut their hair like his and dressed like him. He was an American revolution and teenagers all over the United States went wild.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in a poor family on January 8, 1935 in Mississippi. When he was 13, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

Elvis loved music, and the same year, his mother bought him a guitar. He learned to play it well, and in 1954 he went to a recording studio to make a record for his mother’s birthday. Sam Phillips, the manager of the studio, was impressed when he heard Elvis’s voice. Elvis was white, but he sang like a black man. Sam produced Elvis’s first record called “That’s all right, Mama”.

Soon disk jockeys all over the U.S played the song. In 1955, Elvis appeared on TV on the famous Ed Sullivan Show. The following year he went to Hollywood and made his first movie called “love me tender”. Other hit records and movies followed, and Elvis became a millionaire. In 1958, he joined the army and went to Germany. When he came back to the United States in the early sixties, pop music wasn’t the same. Groups like The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones were very popular.

Elvis couldn’t take it. He became fat and depressed. He was rich, but very lonely. On August 16, 1977, he died of a heart attack in his mansion, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

His house is a museum today, and every year, thousands of fans come to Graceland to see it. People all over the world continue to buy his records, and in the United States, imitators dress up like Elvis Presley, shake their hips, and pretend to be the King of Rock and Roll.

VOCABULARY

Moved - Movió

impressed  - Impresionado

Soon – Pronto

tender – Tierno/Afectuoso/Amoroso

joined the army – Unió al ejercito

heart attack – Ataque al corazón

mansion - Mansión

imitators - Imitadores

shake – Sacudir  

pretend – Pretender 

EXERCISES:

1   EXERCISE 1: Find 19 Past Tense verbs in the text. There are 9 irregular and 10 regular verbs.

EXERCISE 2: Read the text and complete Elvil Presley’s timeline

Exercise 3: Read again and put the following events about Elvis Presley in the correct order.

______ He couldn’t accept the changes in pop music.

______ “That’s all right, mama” was his first hit record.

______ His house was turned into a museum.

______ His family moved to Memphis when he was a teenager.

______ He appeared on TV, and made movies.

______ Young people in the United States went crazy with his music.

3.    Complete the song with the words from bellow.

Elvis Presley

ONLY YOU

Only you can make this world seem 1)________

Only you can make the 2)______ bright.

Only you, and you 3)______ can thrill me like you 4)____

And fill my 5)_______ with love for only you.

Only you can make this 6)_______ in me,

For it's 7)________ you are my 8)_______

When you hold my 9)________ I understand the 10)_______

That you do,

You're my 11)_______ come true, my one and only you

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