INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LESSON THE UKULELE ENGLISHDOTCOMMUNITY.COM • Do you recognise the musical instrument in the picture? What is it called? • Which country or environment do you associate with this instrument? • What sort of sound does it create? DISCUSSION QUESTIONS #1 Discuss these questions with a partner. Source: A TED Ed clip, ‘Mysteries of vernacular: Ukelele’; A YouTube clip by Fender, ‘Billie Eilish Signature Ukelele’ Focus: Listening Image: Unsplash - Giovanni Ribeiro READING Complete this short text, ‘What is a ukelele?’, by filling each space with one word from the box. INSTRUMENTS FOUR-STRINGED RESEMBLES LOCATED TROPICAL KNOWN DEVELOPED VERSION What is a Ukulele? It produces a characteristic sound that immediately takes us to 1)__________ environments. The ukulele was born in Hawaii but has its roots in Western Europe. The ukulele is a 2)__________ musical instrument made from wood that 3)________ a small classical guitar. English speakers pronounce it as "you-ka-ley-ley" but, in fact, the spelling of the word is an anglicised 4)________ of the original Hawaiian pronunciation “ju-ke-lei-li." The father and mother of the ukulele are two musical 5)________ from Portugal - the cavaquinho and the machete, also 6)________ as braguinha. They were 7)________ in Braga, a city 8)________ in the north of the country. Source: https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/what-is-a-ukulele Image: Unsplash - David Wayne
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INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LESSON
THE UKULELE
ENGLISHDOTCOMMUNITY.COM
• Do you recognise the musical
instrument in the picture? What
is it called?
• Which country or environment do
you associate with this
instrument?
• What sort of sound does it
create?
DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS #1
Discuss these
questions with a
partner.
Source: A TED Ed clip, ‘Mysteries of vernacular: Ukelele’; A YouTube clip by Fender, ‘Billie Eilish
Signature Ukelele’
Focus: Listening
Ima
ge:
Un
spla
sh -
Gio
van
ni R
ibei
ro
READING Complete this short text, ‘What is a ukelele?’, by filling each space with one word from the box.
INSTRUMENTS
FOUR-STRINGED
RESEMBLES
LOCATED
TROPICAL
KNOWN
DEVELOPED
VERSION
What is a Ukulele?
It produces a characteristic sound that immediately takes us
to 1)__________ environments. The ukulele was born in Hawaii
but has its roots in Western Europe.
The ukulele is a 2)__________ musical instrument made from wood
that 3)________ a small classical guitar.
English speakers pronounce it as "you-ka-ley-ley" but, in fact, the
spelling of the word is an anglicised 4)________ of the original
Hawaiian pronunciation “ju-ke-lei-li."
The father and mother of the ukulele are two musical 5)________
from Portugal - the cavaquinho and the machete, also 6)________
as braguinha. They were 7)________ in Braga, a city 8)________ in the
north of the country.
Source: https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/what-is-a-ukuleleImage: Unsplash - David Wayne