Taylor Swift's story

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: a big fanListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find the present perfectGrammar exercise
11. 11Past simple or present perfect?Grammar rule
12. 12Past or present perfect?Grammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: she's = she hasSpeaking practice
14. 14An interview with a starSpeaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: my favorite bandGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: my favorite starDiscussion

Words

• album/ˈælbəm/

  a collection of songs by one artist, on a CD or online

• lyrics/ˈlɪrɪks/

  the words of a song

• tour/tʊr/

  a trip to many cities to play concerts (go on tour)

• fan/fæn/

  a person who likes a singer, a team or a show very much

• award/əˈwɔːrd/

  a prize for doing something very well

• record/rɪˈkɔːrd/

  to save music or sound so people can listen to it later

• hit/hɪt/

  a very popular song or movie (a hit song)

• career/kəˈrɪr/

  all the years of work in one kind of job, like music or teaching

• release/rɪˈliːs/

  to make a song, an album or a movie available for people to buy or see

• charity/ˈtʃærəti/

  a group that collects money to help people, like sick children

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about music.

1. What kind of music do you like?
2. Have you ever been to a big concert? Who did you see?
3. Who is the most famous singer from your country?

Grammar rule

Past simple or present perfect?

	When?	Example
past simple	a finished time: yesterday, in 2006, at 14, last year, two years ago, when she was 12	She released her first album in 2006.
present perfect	no time, or until now: ever, never, just, already, yet, so far	She has won more than ten Grammys. Have you heard her music?

A question with when takes the past simple: When did she move to Tennessee? (not When has she moved…?)

We often start with the present perfect and then give the details in the past simple: I've seen her in concert three times. The first time was in 2015.

American English often uses the past simple for experiences, too (I saw her three times). With a finished time, though, only the past simple is right.