Answer — Exercise 3
16 - The fame game·Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss why the people and things below were mentioned. Check your ideas by looking at the article again if you need to.
Answer
- When you date a famous person you get on the front page of gossip magazines.
- Shows like X Factor are a kind of karaoke.
- Kurt Nilsen was a winner of his country’s Pop Idol and then World Idol.
- Howard Davies-Carr is the man who uploaded a short film that went viral.
- YouTube is a website which shows clips that people have uploaded.
- Paris Hilton has very rich parents which is why she is famous.
- Golda Bechal is the woman who left a fortune to a couple who had been friendly to her when she was lonely.
- Kuldeep Singh is the guy who saved several peoples’ lives by removing a bomb.
- The Zimmers were the band which was formed by old people.
- The Who wrote the original song which the Zimmers performed.