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    Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in Mississippi and became known as the King of Rock and Roll. In the 1950s, his energetic stage presence and music shook up popular culture. Teenagers copied his look and loved his hit songs. He joined the army in 1958 but struggled after returning to the music industry. Elvis died of a heart attack in 1977 at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. His home is now a popular museum that receives thousands of fans each year honoring his musical legacy.

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    Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in Mississippi and became known as the King of Rock and Roll. In the 1950s, his energetic stage presence and music shook up popular culture. Teenagers copied his look and loved his hit songs. He joined the army in 1958 but struggled after returning to the music industry. Elvis died of a heart attack in 1977 at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. His home is now a popular museum that receives thousands of fans each year honoring his musical legacy.

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    Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in Mississippi and became known as the King of Rock and Roll. In the 1950s, his energetic stage presence and music shook up popular culture. Teenagers copied his look and loved his hit songs. He joined the army in 1958 but struggled after returning to the music industry. Elvis died of a heart attack in 1977 at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. His home is now a popular museum that receives thousands of fans each year honoring his musical legacy.

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    THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL

    He shook his hips in a sexy way, and the girls went crazy. The boys cut their hair like his and dressed like him. He was an
    American revolution and teenagers all over the United States went wild.

    Elvis Aaron Presley was born in a poor family on January 8, 1935 in Mississippi. When he was
    13, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

    Elvis loved music, and the same year, his mother bought him a guitar. He learned to play it
    well, and in 1954 he went to a recording studio to make a record for his mother’s birthday. Sam
    Phillips, the manager of the studio, was impressed when he heard Elvis’s voice. Elvis was white, but
    he sang like a black man. Sam produced Elvis’s first record called “That’s all right, Mama”.

    Soon disk jockeys all over the U.S played the song. In 1955, Elvis appeared on TV on the famous Ed Sullivan Show. The
    following year he went to Hollywood and made his first movie called “love me tender”. Other hit records and movies followed, and
    Elvis became a millionaire. In 1958, he joined the army and went to Germany. When he came back to the United States in the early
    sixties, pop music wasn’t the same. Groups like The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones were very popular.
    Elvis couldn’t take it. He became fat and depressed. He was rich, but very lonely. On August 16, 1977, he died
    of a heart attack in his mansion, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.
    His house is a museum today, and every year, thousands of fans come to Graceland to see it. People all over
    the world continue to buy his records, and in the United States, imitators dress up like Elvis Presley, shake their hips, and pretend to
    be the King of Rock and Roll.
    VOCABULARY
    Moved - umgezogen

    impressed - überzeugen

    Soon – bald, kurz danach

    tender - zart

    joined the army – zum Militär gehen

    heart attack – Herzinfarkt

    mansion - Villa

    imitators - Nachahmer

    shake – Schütteln

    pretend – vorgeben
    1. Find 19 Past Tense verbs in the text. There are 9 irregular and 10 regular verbs. Write the first for for each.

    2. Read the text and complete Elvil Presley’s timeline (Zeitleiste)

    1935 1954 1955 1958 1977 TODAY

    ELVIS
    PRESLEY
    WAS BORN
    3. Read again and put the following events about Elvis Presley in the correct order.

    ______ He couldn’t accept the changes in pop music.

    ______ “That’s all right, mama” was his first hit record.

    ______ His house was turned into a museum.

    ______ His family moved to Memphis when he was a teenager.

    ______ He appeared on TV, and made movies.

    ______ Young people in the United States went crazy with his music.

    4. Write 5 more sentences about Elvis using the Past Simple.

    5. Complete the song with the words from the box.

    Elvis Presley ONLY YOU

    Only you can make this world seem 1)... For it's 7)... you are my 8)...

    Only you can make the 2}... bright. When you hold my 9)..., I understand the 10)...

    Only you, and you 3)... can thrill me like you 4)... That you do,

    And fill my 5)... with love for only you. You're my 11)... come true, my one and only you

    Only you can make this 6)... in me,


    Magic | dream | darkness | hand | heart | do | alone | change | destiny | true | right
    Answer 1 : shake, cut, dress, be, move, love, buy, learn, go, impress, sing, call, appear, make, follow, become, come, die, hear

    Answer 2: 1954 – made his first record, 1955 – appeared on TV, 1958 – joined the army, 1977 – died of a heart attack

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