What's so special about the Beatles?

You are going to

• do a listening comprehension exercise on the Beatles
• look at some vocabulary connected to culture / music
• read about the Beatles

1) Discuss

It's 50 years since the Beatles released their first album Please Please Me. They recorded the whole album in only one day.

• What do you know about the Beatles?
• Why were they important or special?

The first track on the album was called I Saw Her Standing There
Listen. Do you like it?

2) Before you listen
You are going to listen to someone talking about why the Beatles are "special".
Here is some vocabulary from the clip. Match the words to their definitions.

3) Listen
Listen below to an interview by Nick Ellerby with Phil Alexander, the editor-in-chief of the music magazine Mojo.
Why were the Beatles special?

listen to ‘50 year anniversary of The Beatles' Please Please Me with MOJO magazine’ on Audioboo

Now answer the questions below.

4) Read / Webquest
Click on this link and then do the question / answer matching exercise below
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/9946799/The-Beatles-Please-Please-Me-50-years-on-10-facts-about-the-debut-album.html

Printable worksheets are here




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The Beatles  Listening, Music, Past Simple, Quizzes, Reading 

The Beatles official web page http://www.thebeatles.com/






Here are the Beatles in November 1963 at the Royal Command Performance attended by the Queen Mother. At 04:45 John Lennon makes a request. "For our last number I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'd just rattle your jewellery."

The Beatles

You are going to

• revise the past simple
• listen to a video about the Beatles and do a matching exercise
• read a text about the Beatles and do a gap-fill exercise
• do a quiz based on the information in the lesson

  

1) Discuss

2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first hit single.

• Who were the Beatles?
• What were their names?
• What did they do?

Watch the video to find out.

2) Do the matching exercise

Look at the exercise below. The information in the boxes on the right is in a different order to the film. Use your mouse to drag the information in the boxes on the right to the correct heading on the left.
Watch the film again if you need to.

Listen to this Beatles concert from 1964 while you do the gap fill exercise below.

3) Gap-fill

Read the text and fill in the gaps.

You can choose the correct answer from the drop-down menu.

Sgt Pepper

Abbey Road

4) Beatles Quiz

How much can you remember?

Do this quiz. There are 12 questions.

5) Writing

Choose someone famous that you like. Write about them.

• When was he / she born?
• Where was he / she from?
• What did he / she do?
• How did he / she become famous?
• Did he / she make films?
• Did he / she get married?
• Why do you like him / her?

6) More

Printable worksheet here

More Beatles http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/whats-so-special-about-beatles.html

More past simple practice

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/past-simple-forms.html 

More practice with the Beatles  http://www.esllistening.org/beatles/home.html

More Beatles info and music  http://www.beatles.com/

And in the end...