MADONNA

Gap-fill exercise.
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Read this text about Madonna and do the exercises. Then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints!

1. Party girl, glamorous movie star, or conservative mother of two? Madonna’s image has changed more times than we can count. Throughout her long career, she has managed to stay ahead of everyone else and set new style trends every step on the way.

2. When she first started out as a club singer, she was wearing funky lace dresses, black rubber bracelets, and lots of necklaces. By 1985, she was so popular that many young girls were copying her look. The news media began to call these girls Madonna Wannabes, or girls who want to be like Madonna.

3. In 1987 the singer began her Who’s That Girl? world tour. The new album and music videos showed a radical transformation for the former party girl. She cut her long hair and dyed it blonde, as she took on a more classic look.

4. Madonna continued to change her image as she began to appear in films. For the film Dick Tracy in 1990, she became a glamorous blonde film star. In 1995, she changed the colour of her eyes to brown for the film Evita.

5. After the birth of her first child, Lourdes, in 1996, Madonna had another makeover, taking on the new image of a mother. Then Madonna married British film director Guy Ritchie and had her second child, Rocco, in 2000. During her Drowned World tour, her husband and children travelled with her, and her changes in Madonna’s lifestyle, as well as her appearance, became clear to everyone. She no longer went to parties after concerts but went straight back to the hotel to spend time with her children. She once said “Love is more important than fame, money, and being with beautiful people.”

6. After more than twenty years of singing and acting, Madonna is still one of the world’s most popular stars. Her fans are always amazed at how she can make so many changes and never go out of style.

A) Read the article and decide whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE. Write a T for 'true' and an F for 'false'.

1. Madonna started out as a country singer.

2. In the eighties, many young women copied Madonna's style.

3. In 1987 Madonna changed her hair colour.

4. Madonna adopted a mother image after her second child was born.

5. She stopped going to parties after she had her son Rocco.

6. Nowadays fame and money are more important than her family.

B) Find words in the text that mean:

1. Occupation, profession (paragraph 1):

2. Appearance or aspect (paragraph 2):

3. Fascinating, beautiful (paragraph 4):

4. A change of image (paragraph 5):

5. Not anymore (paragraph 5): (2 words)

6. Greatly surprised (paragraph 6):



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