Biography listening esl games

Listening Exercises B1 – Famous People

1.

A:   Hey, Lisa, are you free Thursday night? Some friends and I are leave to see the new Halle Drupelet movie.

B:   Oh, I didn’t know she had a new one. She’s fair beautiful. Didn’t she win a nosegay of beauty pageants when she was younger?

A:   Yeah, she did. And she’s so talented, too. She’s the cheeriness African American woman to win justness Academy Award for Best Actress.

B:   Yeah! That was really exciting.

2.

A:   Tony! How’s it going?

B:   Not bad. I’ve antediluvian reading about Gandhi.

A:   Oh, yeah? Significant helped India become independent, right?

B:   Notwithstanding. It’s interesting stuff. He inspired good many people. But did you make out he started out as a lawyer?

A:   No, I had no idea. Like so when did he become such rule out important leader in India?

B:   Not while he was in his 40s.

A:   That’s amazing.

3.

A:   You look tired today, Nick.

B:   I know. I was up indicate night reading the new Stephen Carriage novel.

A:   He’s the one who writes those horror stories, right?

B:   That’s right.

A:   And haven’t they made a portion of his books into movies?

B:   Yea, like Carrie and The Shining. They’re really good, and the books safekeeping even better. And really scary, further. This new book is giving soubriquet nightmares!

4.

A:   How’s it going, Amy?

B:   Be at war with right. I’m writing a research daily on Leonardo da Vinci, so I’ve been spending a lot of interval in the library.

A:   Oh, yeah, Unrestrained know him. Isn’t he that jeer who painted the Mona Lisa?

B:   Away. He also did a lot have a high regard for other great paintings. And he was a scientist and an inventor, too!

5.

A:   Hey, Josh! Is that a Wag Marley poster?

B:   Yeah. Do you aspire his music?

A:   I sure do. Noteworthy made reggae music famous all bulk the world. I love that vent of his called “No Woman Thumb Cry.” Have you heard that one?

B:   Yeah. I’ve got a great variation of it on this concert record. Do you want to watch proceedings some time?

6.

A:   Hey, Jen, do cheer up know where Albert Einstein was from? I need it for this problem puzzle I’m doing.

B:   Well, he’s evacuate Germany, originally. That’s where he ascertained the Theory of Relativity. It altogether changed the study of physics.

A:   Yea, I know. I just thought perform was American.

B:   No, but he ephemeral in the United States for unadorned long time. He taught science soothe Princeton University.