Complete the sentences with the present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. 1 a poem for someone? (you / ever /write) 2 volunteer work? (you / ever / do) 3 My cousins an exam in their lives. (never / fail) 4 M y sister a job she liked, so she took a year off from work. (never / have) 5 I my own money, but I would like to soon. (never / earn) Which of the following jobs would you think of as dream jobs? Why? Talk in class. ■■ vlogger ■■ teacher ■■ racing driver ■■ model ■■ singer ■■ CEO of a multinational ■■ footballer ■■ politician Read the article about Robbie Williams. Would you say he has a dream job? Why? /Why not? Read the article again and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for questions 1–4. 1 Robbie always A planned to be a musician. B wanted to be in a band. C wanted to be a star. D wanted to write songs. 2 Robbie left Take That because A he wanted to join another band. B he had health problems. C he didn’t get on with his bandmates. D the tours weren’t making enough money. 3 Angels was A Robbie’s only solo hit outside the UK. B Robbie’s first solo hit in the UK. C Robbie’s first international solo hit. D Take That’s first single without Robbie. 4 Robbie has always A played different characters in his videos. B wanted to be James Bond. C wanted to be an actor. D lived in Los Angeles. 1 to take off: to be successful 2 to land sth.: to get or achieve sth. good 4 5 Reading 6 a Robbie Williams Robbie Williams may be a star these days, but his career has had its ups and downs. Robert Peter Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent on 13th February 1974. Ever since he was a young child, Robbie has shown star qualities, performing songs on stage in Spain when he was only three years old. He wasn’t always a perfect pupil at school. It was clear he had other ambitions: He wanted to become a star. At the age of 16, Williams joined the boy band Take That, where he became famous in the following five years. But the pressure of being a celebrity and artistic disagreements with the band’s main songwriters got too much. He spent a few years partying, drinking, and taking drugs – while still touring successfully with the group. Finally, after a series of conflicts with the management and the other band members, Robbie left Take That in 1995 to start a solo career. At first it looked as if his new career wasn’t going to take off1. Even though his debut album Life thru a Lens was popular in Britain, it seemed that Robbie’s fans weren’t buying his solo efforts in the rest of Europe, and his decision to quit the band appeared to have been a bad idea. But with the release of Angels in July 1997 everything changed. Since then he has had one hit after another, and recently said that he had never been so happy. In 2018, Robbie fulfilled a life-long dream by singing at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Moscow. One of the songs he performed was, of course, Angels. As well as his great love of music, Robbie clearly has ambitions to pursue an acting career. He has tried to land2 the role of James Bond for quite some time, and in almost every video he takes on a character he hasn’t played before to demonstrate his acting qualities. Robbie and his family have lived in Los Angeles, close to Hollywood’s major film studios, for several years now. And who knows – maybe he will one day be able to make this dream come true as well. b Language skills Extras Explore 2 The world of work 19 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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