4. What has Bob’s great success been in? Why did he make record Do they know it’s Christmas? His greatest success has not been in singing but in organizing other singers to sing for him –for free. He wanted to do something to help the African.

5. birth place & time mother’s death early interest in pop groups first job career in Canada his own pop group the top pop group in Britain Ireland & 1954 when he was seven when he was fourteen first in a food factory and later as a worker building roads wrote about music for a newspaper in 1975, he returned to Dublin and formed his own pop group. from 1979 to 1982 they were the top pop group in Britain

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7. Bob Geldof’s life changed in 1984 when he. He became when he saw. He felt that he wanted to. Suddenly he had the idea of. His plan was that if he sell lots of copies, then the money from the record sales food or other things for Africa. was watching TV sad and angry do something to help them making a pop record could be spent on managed to one October evening hungry people in Africa pictures of

8. He rang up in the pop world, including the most famous pop stars. They all agreed on his record. The record “Do they know it’s Christmas?” and Bob that it was played on the radio. The record was sold so well that the factory was producing every day. In the USA were sold in the first. By January 1985, had been collected and soon increased to. all his friends to singfor free made surewas produced many times 320,000 copies fortnight 1.5 million copies 5 million pounds 8 million pounds

10. How many African countries did he visit? What did he do there? He went to six African countries. He wanted to see for himself what the problems were and how the money should be spend.

11. Name:Nationality: Sex:Work: Birthplace:Date of birth: 1954: 1960: 1967: 1975: 1982: 1984: 1985: Bob Geldof M Irish singer Ireland 1954 He was born. His mother died. He became interested in pop groups. He returned to Dublin. His pop group stopped playing together. He had the idea of making a pop record. He collected 8 million pounds from record sales.

13. What’s Bob Geldof’s next project? How much money was collected from ticket sales and from radio and TV companies?

14. What’s Bob Geldof’s next project? How much money was collected from ticket sales and from radio and TV companies? He had the idea of organizing two big pop concerts on the same day. 7 million dollars were collected from ticket sales and a further 7 million dollars came from radio and TV companies.

16. Place of the two concerts Who will go to sing at the concerts? What would the airlines do ? What would BBC do? When were the concerts held? How many people watched the programme? One in England and one in USA All the world-famous pop stars Fly the pop stars for free 17 hours of non-stop TV time On July 13 th 1985 1.5 billion people in 160 countries watched the programme.

17. 1. Prepare to retell the text by saying something about the Concert. 2. Finish the exercise on Workbook page 102 and 103. 3. Reading on YOU HUA SHE JI