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    Exercises Kenia M 13

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    1. The document is a listening exercise about high-achieving teenagers, including Justin Bieber and Tavi Gevinson. 2. It discusses how Justin Bieber started by posting singing videos on YouTube at a young age and gained many followers on social media. Tavi Gevinson started a popular fashion blog called Style Rookie when she was only 11 years old. 3. The listening exercise includes multiple choice and gap fill questions about details like Justin Bieber's age when he started on YouTube, how many followers he has on Twitter, and when Tavi started her blog and magazine Rookie.

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    1. The document is a listening exercise about high-achieving teenagers, including Justin Bieber and Tavi Gevinson. 2. It discusses how Justin Bieber started by posting singing videos on YouTube at a young age and gained many followers on social media. Tavi Gevinson started a popular fashion blog called Style Rookie when she was only 11 years old. 3. The listening exercise includes multiple choice and gap fill questions about details like Justin Bieber's age when he started on YouTube, how many followers he has on Twitter, and when Tavi started her blog and magazine Rookie.

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    1. The document is a listening exercise about high-achieving teenagers, including Justin Bieber and Tavi Gevinson. 2. It discusses how Justin Bieber started by posting singing videos on YouTube at a young age and gained many followers on social media. Tavi Gevinson started a popular fashion blog called Style Rookie when she was only 11 years old. 3. The listening exercise includes multiple choice and gap fill questions about details like Justin Bieber's age when he started on YouTube, how many followers he has on Twitter, and when Tavi started her blog and magazine Rookie.

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    1. The document is a listening exercise about high-achieving teenagers, including Justin Bieber and Tavi Gevinson. 2. It discusses how Justin Bieber started by posting singing videos on YouTube at a young age and gained many followers on social media. Tavi Gevinson started a popular fashion blog called Style Rookie when she was only 11 years old. 3. The listening exercise includes multiple choice and gap fill questions about details like Justin Bieber's age when he started on YouTube, how many followers he has on Twitter, and when Tavi started her blog and magazine Rookie.

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    Listening skills practice: High-achieving teenagers – exercises

    Listen to the radio interview about high-achieving teenagers and do the exercises to practise and improve
    your listening skills.

    1. Preparation: grouping
    Do this exercise before you listen. Write the words in the correct group.

    listeners photographers editors readers


    talent scouts fans top designers followers

    People working in arts and media The audience for arts and media

    2. Check your understanding: multiple choice


    Do this exercise while you listen. Circle the best option to complete these sentences.

    Many famous and successful teenagers have used new technology / worked from an early age
    1.
    / been inspired by YouTube videos .

    Justin Bieber started off singing with R&B star Usher / sending videos to talent scouts / posting
    2.
    videos on YouTube .

    Some people say Justin Bieber is the most influential person in the world because he has had
    3. so many number one songs / he has so many followers on Twitter / he is friends with Barack
    Obama .

    A negative consequence of fame for Justin Bieber is he has very little privacy / people get
    4. bored of hearing about him / people criticise his appearance .

    Tavi Gevinson started a fashion blog when she was 11 years old / when she was in 11th grade
    5.
    in high school / in 2011 .

    6. “Rookie” means a beginner / a fan / someone who is bad at something .

    Style Rookie allowed readers to post pictures of themselves / soon had a lot of readers / was
    7.
    noticed by Karl Lagerfeld .

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    When some people didn't believe her age, Tavi was sad and angry at first / decided to attack
    8.
    them in return / completely ignored them and continued working .

    Tavi employs only teenagers / writers and photographers of all ages / a very small group of
    9.
    people .
    Louise thinks it’s difficult for Tavi to have a normal life / there’s more pressure when you are a
    10.
    writer / there’s more pressure when you are a performer .

    3. Check your understanding: gap fill


    Do this exercise while you listen. Write the numbers to complete the gaps.

    1. Justin Bieber started off posting videos on YouTube at the age of _______________ .

    2. Justin Bieber has over _______________ followers on Twitter.

    3. Tavi Gevinson started Style Rookie when she was only _______________ years old.

    4. Tavi’s blog soon built up a huge following of up to _______________ reader per day.

    One magazine upset Tavi by printing an article saying the writer didn’t believe Tavi was only
    5.
    _______________ .

    6. Tavi started Rookie Magazine in _______________ .

    7. Less than a week after it started Rookie Magazine had _______________ followers.

    8. Tavi employs about _______________ writers and photographers.

    Do you think Justin Bieber and Tavi Gevinson deserve their success, or are they just lucky?

    I think … deserves his/ her success because …


    I don’t think … deserves his/ her success because …

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