Wednesday 1 May 2013

(Good for revising biographies!!) Fill in the gaps:


Shakira "woman full of grace" shakira2.jpg

An exercise by Isabel Perez for students of ESO

Fill the gaps with the Past Simple of the verb that you find in the clue ¿?.
(If you look at the clue, the maximum score you can get is 50%.)

Shakira is perhaps the most recognizable voice in Latin pop/rock today. When she  only 8, she  her first song called "Tus gafas oscuras", to her father. Two years later, she  local and national talent contests. By 13, she had signed a record deal with Sony in Colombia, which  in her first album, "Magia (Magic)", a compilation of songs she  between 8 and 13 years old.
She was chosen to represent her country at the Festival OTI in Spain. But she was under the minimum age of 16 and she  participate. So instead, Shakira  a second album of original material, "Peligro (Danger)". At that point, Shakira  a break from music,  from high school (at age 15-really) and  back with a vengeance. The result was the phenomenally successful "Pies Descalzos" which  more than four million copies worldwide.
In addition, this determined girl  to try her luck as an actress in "Oasis", a soap opera, but she  music was her life instead of TV. Then she  to be very popular: the Colombian government  Shakira as an official goodwill ambassador.

Her first English-language album, Laundry Service (2001),  Shakira with the success in the United States, selling more than 200,000 copies in the first week. The songs "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes"  both big hits.

Shakira  to the top 10 of the albums chart in 2005 twice.

Her hit "Waka Waka" from her 2010 album Sale el Sol  the theme song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Do you like her music? Why?