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CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT? CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THESE
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PEOPLE?
a Read the article once. Then read it again w ith the
glossary and m ark the sentences T (true), F (false), or
5 44))) O n the street W atch or listen to five people and
D S (doesn’t say).
answer the questions.
1 The boy was on the Isle o f Wight to attend the festival.
2 Bob Dylan and the boy had communication problems.
3 There was a beautiful view from the kitchen.
4 The boy liked the song that the American sang to him.
5 Some years later the boy committed a crime.
Ryder Elizabeth Sean Isobel Giles
6 He was very moved when he heard North Country Blues.
7 Bob Dylan taught him to read and write. 1 Ryder helped someone w ho_______.
a had an electronic device taken from him
b Choose five new words or phrases from the text. Check
b was run over by a car
their m eaning and pronunciation and try to learn them.
c couldn’t make a phone call
2 Elizabeth thinks that technology_______.
The ICON and the GYPSY a is helpful in certain situations

b helps people learn important skills
I was a young Gypsy boy trying to grow up
c doesn’t work as well as it shou Id
in the 1960s in a country that was very
hostile to our lifestyle, and with no 3 S ean _______guess who the murderer is.
access to education, and no chance a can usually b likes to try to c doesn’t try to
to listen to music, or to attend festivals.
4 Isobel’s favorite thing about Alexander M cQueen’s
By chance, my family was on the Isle of
clothes is _______.
Wight during the famous 1969 music festival.
I was knocking on doors, trying to sell our a they are reasonably priced
homemade clothespins. One day I came to a very large house, b the different designs and materials
somewhere in the middle of the island. A very charming American c that they are based on designs from the past
invited me in. He gave me orange juice and asked me a lot of
5 Giles thinks he’s lucky because h e_______.
questions about my life. He couldn’t understand what I was
saying very well because of my accent, and I couldn’t understand a caught a flight from Australia at the last minute
him much either - he talked very quietly. I sat at his large wooden b is generally happy
kitchen table and told him all about Gypsy life, how hard it could
c once won some money in the lottery
be, but also the fun we had.
I must have been there for most of the morning, and he got me
to sing a couple of the Gypsy songs I knew. Before I left he played CAN YOU SAY THIS IN ENGLISH?
me a song on his guitar and gave me a record, which he said was
his, and had the song on. But I didn't have a record player, and I D o the tasks w ith a partner. C heck (/ ) the box if you can
soon lost the record. do them.
I had no idea who he was, and I forgot about him until I was in
my early twenties. Unfortunately I had gotten into some trouble Can you...?
and was in Brixton Prison for burglary. My sentence was for two
1 00 complete these three sentences:
years. We had a vicar who used to visit twice a week, and because
we were bored, we would sometimes attend his sessions. At one If you had told me about the party earlier,...
of the sessions he played some music on an old record player, and I would have bought those shoes if...
as soon as I heard it, I recognized the singer. He told me it was a
I wouldn’t have been so angry if...
man named Bob Dylan and said that if I liked it, he would bring
more of his records to the next meeting. The following week 2 describe something that you do too much, and
I spent hours transfixed as I listened to the records. One song something that you don’t do enough
stood out - North Country Blues - it was the song he had sung to
3 0 0 talk about a gadget that you use and why it is useful
me in the kitchen on the Isle of Wight all those years ago. When
the song had finished, I cried - all the troubles and hardship I had 4 I__] describe a person that you admire (who he or she
lived with just poured out of me.
is / what you know about him or her / why you
Those sessions with the vicar became my education. With his 5 0 0 check five things you think you know
admire him or her)
Adapted from The Times to an end, I had started a journey that transformed my life. With v id e o watch and enjoy the movie.
guidance and Dylan's poetry, a world opened up to me. He taught
me to read and write, and by the time my prison sentence came
about your partner using tag questions
the vicar’s support I went to college and became a carpenter - I
didn’t look back.
Short movies Brooklyn Bridge
Gypsy a member o f a race o f people who spend their lives
traveling around from place to place, living in caravans
Isle of Wight a small island off the south coast o f England
vicar an Anglican priest
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