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Listening to music

1 25 Listen and repeat. 4 Read the text again and circle True (T), False
(F) or Doesn’t say (DS).
Vocabulary Listening to music 1 A gramophone worked with
electricity. T / F / DS
cassette cassette player CD player 2 Vinyl records were very expensive. T / F / DS
compact disc gramophone MP3 player 3 When compact discs arrived,
record player smartphone vinyl record
people stopped buying vinyl
records and cassettes. T / F / DS
2 Look at the photos. Can you number the photos from 4 The Sony Discman was good for
the oldest player (1) to the newest player (6)? listening to music when
you weren’t at home. T / F / DS
a b c
5 Today people don’t listen
to music all the time. T / F / DS
6 Music apps are for listening
to music on MP3 players. T / F / DS

cassette player 5 Answer the questions.

1 What did your parents use to listen to
d e f 1 music when they were your age?

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2 What do you use to listen to music?

3 Think about the last song you listened to.
What were you doing at that time?

4 Do you prefer to listen to music with
speakers or headphones? Why?
3 Label the photos with the words from Exercise 1.
Then read the text and check your answers to
Exercise 2. 5 Where do you usually listen to music?

100 years of listening to music
One hundred years ago, people listened to music on Then in 1982, CD players arrived in the shops. People
a gramophone. The music was on records that went stopped listening to records and cassettes and they
round and round. Gramophones didn't work with bought compact discs. The compact discs were
electricity – they worked with a key you turned, like stronger than cassettes and the sound was better.
an old clock. The sound came from a large metal cone. Lots of people bought the portable Sony Discman
Gramophones weighed a lot – more than 12 kilos! with headphones and listened to their CDs outside
In the 1940s, people listened to music on record their homes.
players that worked with electricity. Record players Nowadays we listen to music with headphones on
had speakers and the records were vinyl. Vinyl was a MP3 players and smartphones. You can download
special plastic for records. songs to an MP3 player or a smartphone. Now
Thirty years later, people also had cassette players. you can also listen to music on apps with your
The cassettes weren’t ‘strong’ but they were smaller smartphone.
than records. The Sony Walkman® – a small portable Vinyl records are popular again today, so ask your
cassette player with headphones – was also popular. grandparents to find their old record players!

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