Pedro Olivera

Second Test
Date:
Name: Surname: Class:

C l a s s i c a l
meets pop
Vanessa-Mae, the girl with the electric violin, talks to Miranda Gray.

Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson is only twenty-four years old, but she is a world-famous violinist. When she plays classical violin concertos on her electric violin, the world listens.

Vanessa-Mae is Thai-Chinese. Her mother is Chinese and her natural father is Thai. She is from Singapore, but she now lives in London with her mother and her English stepfather. She´s got cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents in Thailand, Singapore, China and England.

Vanessa-Mae loves classical music, especially Mozart, Bethoven and Tchaikovsky, but she also likes the Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Some of Vanessa-Mae´s teachers are unhappy about her music.
They don´t like the mixture of classical and pop on her CDs.

1) READING COMPREHENSION: Answer T (true), F (false) or DK (don´t know).

She is a world-famous violinist..
Vanessa-Mae is from England.
Her mother is Chinese and her natural father is Thai.
Vanessa-Mae has got cousins in Singapore.
She loves classical music and the Beatles.
Their teachers like her CDs.
Vanessa-Mae is Uruguayan.
She plays electric-guitar.
Vanessa-Mae is only twenty-eight years old.
She likes cumbia, salsa and reagueton.

2) Read and answer:

What type of violin does Vanessa-Mae play?
Why does she live in Britain? Because . . .
What type of music does she like?

3) Write about one of your favourite bands. Write about each member.
My favourite band is Cumbia pa bailar. They are fifteen members.They are from "La teja". My favourite song is arestra.

4) Write about you and your family. Write about each member.