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Task 1: Music idioms

Task 2: Who is who in the pictures? and What can you hear? Can you recognise some famous pieces of English and American music?

Task 1

Try this fun quiz with musical terms to check your understanding of English idioms.

1. a jam session

We're going to have a jam session later on, so don't forget to bring

Ayour bread and butter

Byour saxophone

Cyour tennis racket

2. blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet

Georgina says she finds it difficult to blow her own horn because she is

Aa very shy person

Bnot very musical

Cvery proud of herself

3. change your tune

The prime minister wasn't polite to journalists at first, but he changed his tune when he realised

Athey had a lot of influence

Bthey didn't get paid much

Cthey were only doing their job

4. face the music

James will have to face the music when he

Agoes to a concert

Bgoes to hospital

Cgoes to court

5. for a song

I thought I was getting the gems for a song, but I was actually

Apaying too much

Bpaying less than usual

Cmeant to dance as well

6. make a song and dance about something

The staff in our company are making a song and dance about

Ahow bored their receptionist seems

Bhow short the new security guard is

Chow bad the coffee in the canteen is

7. music to your ears

The accused man said it was music to his ears when the judge said

Aguilty

Bnot guilty

Clife without parole

8. play it by ear

Once they get into the studio, the band are going to play it by ear and

Arecord all their old songs

Bsee what they come up with

Cdo whatever the producer tells them to do

9. pull out all the stops

Indira's family were very proud and they pulled out all the stops to make sure her wedding was

Aas spectacular as possible

Bas cheap as possible

Cas secret as possible

10. ring a bell

When I heard the poem, some of the lines rang a bell and

Asome of them beat a drum

Bsounded very beautiful

CI thought I'd heard it somewhere before

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Task 2

Listen to the mp3 file and match the songs with the pictures of these famous British or American singers and bands then write their names in the boxes. If you know the title of the songs, you may get extra points.

Song / Picture (A-J) / Name of Artist / Song title
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A / / F /
B / / G /
C / / H /
D / / I /
E / / J /