ACTIVITIES
After Reading
1 This is the beginning of Sally Hill's story about Sir Anthony
Evans. Can you find and correct the fourteen mistakes in it?
Yesterday was Sir Anthony Evans' seventieth birthday
concert. He played music for the guitar by Mozart, and
millions of people came to listen to this very famous
guitarist. After the concert, I went to see him and his
sister, Lady Linda Evans, in the theatre dressing-room, and
Sir Anthony told me his story.
He came second in a music competition when he was
sixteen, but the story really began before that. One day in
an old factory building a boy called Tony found a new
piano. He was fourteen at the time. He came from a
musical family and he knew a lot about music, and when
he touched the keys of the piano . . .
2 Put these words into two lists. Then think of a name for
each list and write them in the boxes.
animal, chicken, college, concert, country, cow, field,
grass, keys, lorry, note, piano, play, practise, song, sound,
yard
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