This PPT accompanies a separate PDF sheet – also available on www.skillsworkshop.org - with teaching notes, web links and other related activities for ESOL Entry Level 2 upwards.
The Story of Edward Elgar
Kindly contributed by Janet Kinsey [email protected] and Will Zawadzki Will [email protected] Abingdon & Witney College
Nov 2009. To print or download your own copies of this document visit http://www.skillsworkshop.org/
Edward Elgar .................. (be) born near
Worcester in the West Midlands.
He .............. (have) a happy childhood
with his family. He
quickly ....................... (become) very
interested in music
and ........................ (play) the organ, the
bassoon and the violin. He ...............
(study) the violin and really .................
(want) to be a solo violinist.
The Story of Edward Elgar
Elgar .................. (work) in his father’s
music shop. He ................... (love)
playing the organ at the Roman
Catholic church in Worcester.
He ................ (write) music for
orchestras and was ............... (help) by
his wife’s encouragement. When
she ............. (die) he ........... (lose) all his
will to compose music.