Question

Student B
READ AND COMPLETE THE INFORMATION BELOW ABOUT THE
BEATLES. ASK YOUR CLASSMATE TO GET THE MISSING INFORMATION.
Student B
The Beatles were one of the most successful and
influential pop-music
groups of the 1960s. This quartet of British
musicians was the guitarist
John Lennon (October 9, 1940–December 8, ___________); bass
guitarist Paul McCartney (born June 18, 1942); lead guitarist George
Harrison (February 25, 1943–November 29, 2001); and drummer
______________ (originally Richard Starkey; born July 7, 1940).
Lennon formed a band in Liverpool, England, while he was in
______________ in the mid-1950s. McCartney and then Harrison
joined the group in the late __________. In its early years the band
also had several other members. In 1962 they signed a recording
contract with a large music company. At about this time they chose
____________ to replace drummer Pete Best.
At first the Beatles’ songs were upbeat and fairly simple. The first song
recorded by the Beatles was “Love Me Do” in 1962. Their first hit came
the following year, when _________________ climbed to the top of
the British music charts.
The Beatles became very famous in Britain. People started calling the
excitement over the band _______________________. The Beatles
became wildly popular in the United States too after appearing on Ed
Sullivan’s television program in February 1964. Teenage girls across the
country screamed and fainted over them, and boys
_______________ the Beatles’ look. By April 1964 the top five hits in
the United States were all Beatles songs.

In the late 1960s the Beatles began creating
_____________________, combining different musical styles. The
album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) showed a new
complexity. The band also recorded the albums The
Beatles (1968), Abbey Road (1969), and Let It Be (1970).
The pressures of fame led the Beatles to break up in 1970. All four
continued their musical careers—Lennon with his wife named Yoko Ono;
McCartney with the band __________and later as a solo performer;
and Starr and Harrison mainly as solo artists.

Write the open past tense QUESTIONS to find the missing
information.

1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________

Answer 1

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Las frases faltantes del texto son:

1980, Ringo Starr, high school, 1950's, Starr, "Plase Plase Me", Beatelmania, copied, more adventurous music, Wings