Unit 20: The Cult of Celebrity
Tenses
Select a unit
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
Session 1
Play the fame game, learn some new vocabulary and take a look at tenses in a celebrity style, as we take a look at the past, present and future lives of some very famous people.
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Activity 1
Celebrity vocabulary
Spot the celebrity
Are you fascinated by the lives of famous people? Which famous people do you like most - and have you ever wanted to be famous? A person who is well known or famous is known as a celebrity and some people think today's society is obsessed with celebrityculture – watching, following and sometimes trying to copy the lives of celebrities. And some people will do anything just to have their 'five minutes of fame'.
Take a look at the celebrities in the picture. How many of them can you name?
Barreeffama kana dubbisii shakala kana xumuri
To do
The people in this photo are very famous. Learn some celebrity-related vocabulary as you work out who they are. Look in the vocabulary box to find the meaning of the words in the game which have an asterisk* next to them.
Who's who?
6 Questions
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
Gargaarsa
Activity
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
karaarra buusu
It's not Lady GagaQuestion 1 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
karaarra buusu
In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller* 'Argo'.Question 2 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
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We know her by her stage name*.Question 3 of 6
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Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
karaarra buusu
He was in the romcom* 'Notting Hill'Question 4 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
karaarra buusu
He acted alongside Hugh Grant in the film 'Bridget Jones's Diary'Question 5 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Do you know your celebrities? Match the description of each celebrity with the correct picture. Look at the vocabulary box for the meanings of words with asterisks* next to them
karaarra buusu
She also appears in a lot of classical dramasQuestion 6 of 6
Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
Next
Did you manage to spot the celebrities? These people have worked hard to become hugely successful. In the next activity we'll meet someone who isn't a celebrity - but she would love to be famous. Find out what she's doing to make her dream come true.
Session Vocabulary
asterisk
the name for this symbol: *
audition
(as a noun) a short performance where you sing, dance, or act, so that the person who is watching you can decide if you are good enough to perform in a film, play, or concertcelebrity
famous person, particularly in sport, music or filmcelebrity culture
(here) the lives and activities of people who are famous and the people who are interested in themdirects
(here) takes charge of making a film and tells actors and technical staff what to dofascinated
very interested in someone or somethingfive minutes of fame
(idiom) being famous for a short period of time (but not literally five minutes!)flamboyant
dressing or behaving in a way that gets noticed by other peoplehandsome
physically attractive; good looking (usually referring to a man)obsessed
always thinking about, or being too interested in, someone or somethingrole
the character played by a particular actor in a film or playromcoms
informal name for romantic comedy filmsstage name
name a performer uses instead of their real namestarred
was a main actor in a film or playthriller
exciting story, usually about danger or crime
