EF p 9. Ex 1d. Communication: Family Photos. Open Cloze

 

A p 178

Picture 1: Louis Armstrong

In this photo, (1)__________ in New Orleans in about 1918, jazz musician Louis Armstrong (2)___________ with his mother Mary and sister Beatrice. Armstrong was born in 1901, (3)__________ his mother was only 16. The three of them grew (4)____________ in a poor neighbourhood after his father abandoned them. Armstrong worked for a kind Jewish family (5)________ had a junk business. He played a tin horn to attract customers until his boss lent him money (6)__________ buy his first proper musical instrument, a cornet. When Armstrong was 11, after firing a gun into the air, he was arrested and (7)__________ to a detention centre; this is where he first had any proper musical training, and he later said that this was where he began to learn music. After his release, he (8)__________ a living playing in bands and on riverboats, and his career (9)__________ off. Armstrong had his own unique playing style and as a (10)_________ his lips were terribly damaged from playing very high notes with great force. He was much loved (11)___________ the American public and was able to live a life of privilege afforded to few (12)___________ African Americans during that era. In 1963, (13)__________ 62, he became the oldest musician in American history to have a number one hit, ‘Hello Dolly’. Armstrong died (14)__________ a heart attack in New York in 1971, at the age of 70. 

 

B p 183

Picture 2: 

Alfred Hitchcock

This rather touching photo, taken in Los Angeles in 1956, (15)__________ British film director Alfred Hitchcock reading a story to his granddaughters. Hitchcock was devoted (16)_________ his wife Alma, (17)__________ worked with him on many of his films. They had one daughter, Pat, and three granddaughters: Mary and Tere, (18)__________ here, and also Katie. Pat said that when her father found a story, he always asked Alma to read it first, (19)___________ anybody else, to see if she thought it (20)__________ make a movie. Hitchcock is best (21)__________ for his horror films and thrillers, and especially as a master of suspense. He had a big personality – he is (22)__________ to have used cruel techniques in his film-making to frighten the actors into giving powerful performances. He also had a dark sense of humour and enjoyed playing strange, sometimes upsetting, practical (23)__________. However, Pat recalled having a very normal childhood and her father being calm and softly-spoken at home, and his granddaughter Tere remembers Hitchcock dressing (24)____________ as Father Christmas. Tere also described how she and Mary were (25)__________ to watch some of the filming of the classic horror film The Birds, and how, after the film was finished, her grandfather gave them a present of a pair of lovebirds (26)___________ had appeared in the film. When Hitchcock died in Los Angeles in 1980, at the age of 80, his wife, daughter, and granddaughters were (27)_________ his bedside. 

 

 

 

 

KEY

 

 

 

1. taken

 

 

 

 

 

2. poses

 

 

 

 

3. when

 

 

 

4. up

 

 

 

5. who/that

 

 

 

 

6. to

 

 

 

 

7. sent

 

 

 

 

8. made

 

 

 

 

9. took

 

 

 

10. result/ consequence

 

 

 

 

11. by

 

 

 

12. other

 

 

 

13. aged

 

 

 

 

14. of/from

 

 

 

 

 

15. shows

 

 

 

 

16. to

 

 

 

 

17. who ("that" is not possible in non-defining relative clauses)

 

 

 

 

18. shown

 

 

 

 

19. before

 

 

 

20. would

 

 

 

21. known

 

 

 

22. said

 

 

 

23. jokes

 

 

 

24. up

 

 

 

25. allowed

 

 

 

26. which/ that

 

 

 

27. at