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HAPPY Textbook Year 9
I din hand håller du ett läromedel från Gleerups. Gleerups författare är lärare med erfarenhet från klassrummet. Lärare och elever hjälper till att utveckla våra läromedel genom värdefulla synpunkter på både innehåll och form. Vi förankrar våra läromedel i skolan där de hör hemma. Gleerups läromedel är alltid utvecklade i samarbete med dig! Har du som användare frågor eller åsikter, kontakta oss gärna på telefon 040-20 98 00 eller via www.gleerups.se
Författare till detta läromedel är Lennart Peterson, Chris Sutcliffe, Kjell Johansson och Kristina Bergman. För alla värdefulla synpunkter och idéer vid detta läromedels tillkomst tackar vi lärare och elever på Bergaskolan i Malmö, Centralskolan i Svedala och Liljeborgsskolan i Trelleborg.
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Contents
Reading for Pleasure
1. Let´s Talk Pop ........................................................... 4 It Started with The King! ....................................... 4 Just Sixteen ............................................................................. 7 Singing Means Everything – Or Does It? .................................................................... 10 Two Weeks with The Beatles ........................ 12 Watching Music .............................................................. 15 Live Aid and Live 8 ...................................................... 18 Most Interesting Pop Facts Ever ................. 22
2. Let´s Talk Japan ............................................ 24 How to Be Normal in Japan ............................. 24 The Laughing Sumo .................................................... 27 A Beautiful Morning ................................................... 29 What is Manga? ............................................................. 31 Bushido – the Samurai Way ............................. 33 The Robots Are Coming! ................................... 36 Japanese Haikus .............................................................. 40
Across the Nightingale Floor ........... 42 The Subtle Knife ..................................................... 46 3. Let´s Talk Inventions ............................ 50 Ever Had a Really Good Idea? ....................... 50 Are They That Old? .................................................. 53 Poor Inventors! ............................................................... 56 Table Tennis, Alien Invaders and Slices of Pizza ............................... 59 From Babbage to Gates – The Story of Computers ................................ 62 “I am become Death” .............................................. 65 The Time Machine ................................................... 69
4. Let´s Talk Canada
70 Down the Niagara Falls in a Barrel .......... 70 The Bear Truth ............................................................ 73 What Makes Toronto Special? ...................... 76 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police ....... 79 Vote for Simanuk Nuqingaq ............................ 82 The Hockey Sweater ................................................ 86 Börje Salming – a Hockey Legend ............. 91
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Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek .............................................. 92 The Innocent .................................................................. 95 5. Let´s Talk Love ................................................ 100 Letters to Auntie ...................................................... 100 Love Is in the Air ....................................................... 103 No Kissing! ...................................................................... 106 Love, Actually... ........................................................... 108 Noughts and Crosses ........................................... 112 Annie on My Mind .................................................... 116 How Romantic Are You? .................................. 120
6. Let´s Talk American History .... 122 Christopher Columbus – Hero or Villain? ..................................................... 122 The First Americans ............................................... 125 The Death of Abraham Lincoln ................ 129 Journey to The New World .......................... 131 The Escape ........................................................................ 135 The Vietnam War ..................................................... 139 Lincoln and Kennedy – an Urban Legend ................................................... 143
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p o P k l a T s 1. Let´ It Started with The King! Pop music as we know it started on 28th April 1956. That’s when Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel topped the US charts. Of course there had been pop music before. Presley, a poor white boy from the South, was influenced by black Rhythm & Blues, Gospel and Country music. But he combined them all into something new. “The King”, as his fans called him, has influenced pop more than anyone else.
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The 1960s saw pop music flourish in the US and Europe. There were many different kinds of music, for example the West Coast surfing music of The Beach Boys, three brothers, a cousin and a friend. Many middle-aged men who write about pop consider Pet Sounds to be the best LP ever made – and they may be right! Paul McCartney has called God Only Knows “the best song that has ever been written” and he may be right too! In Detroit there was Motown (or Motor Town) Records, the home of black artists like Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye.
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There was also the completely different style of the protest singers, especially Bob Dylan. Dylan’s second album, released in 1963, showed that words as well as music could be important in pop. Songs like Blowin’ in the Wind influenced a generation of song writers and showed what it felt like to be a young American in the 60s. The 60s were also the golden period of British Pop. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones became the most famous bands in the world. The Beatles’ hair and clothes were copied everywhere. Young men even tried to talk with Liverpool accents. The Rolling Stones were from London and presented a different image. They didn’t smile and they wrote music which, in its way, was as angry as anything by Dylan. Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richard certainly wrote some of the great pop songs, for example I Can’t Get No Satisfaction. The Stones have stayed together, now multi-millionaire pensioners who still call themselves “the greatest rock band in the world”. The 1970s began with big groups like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. They played long, loud concerts with extravagant light shows and even flying pigs. Then came Punk. In the UK punks went back to basics. Their music was not clever or pretty or even musical. It was loud. It was angry because so many young people were becoming angry. The days of love and peace were over. The Sex Pistols offered their own version of God Save the Queen.
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The 1980s were dominated by two people – Michael Jackson and Madonna. Jackson had been making records since he was six. As a solo performer he had hit after hit. He could dance and make great videos, such as Thriller. He was also a clever businessman, buying the rights to the Beatles songs. He ended the decade as the richest man in pop. The richest woman was undoubtedly Madonna – an expert dancer and business woman who made great videos and controlled her own career. Songs like Material Girl showed her in control of men. Like Jackson, she mainly recorded fast, disco-based songs, often with sexual themes. Punk had changed the seventies. Rap changed the nineties. It was a form of black music which had started in New York twenty years before. Songs were now talked rather than sung, and the music could be by live musicians or taken from many different records by a DJ. The ideas and words were often hard and threatening – like the streets from which they came. Grunge music, for example Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, also had a dangerous feeling. Life had, once again, become difficult and young people needed someone to share the difficulties with. For a short time this was Kurt Cobain. And the future – the age of instant downloads, streaming, mpgs, iPods and much more? Well, that's another story. Of one thing we can be sure. The History of Rock is still rolling.
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was sixteen in 1977. For me there was only one type of music that mattered – Punk – and only one group – The Clash. I know my pupils probably wouldn’t believe it, but when I was sixteen I was a punk – the full works, even the safety pin through the ear. I liked The Clash because they were angry. Britain made me angry – the unemployment queues, the race riots, the houses that were falling down – there was a lot to be angry about. The Clash were political and that made them good in my eyes. I listen to them whenever I think I’m forgetting how difficult it is to be young. Jack, Head of History
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was sixteen in the year 2000 when the coolest music to listen to was rap. My brother bought me the Eminem album Marshall Mathers for my sixteenth birthday and I loved it. I started wearing huge baggy trousers and had bleached hair to look like Eminem. My parents hated rap music because of the explicit lyrics – they were afraid the neighbours would hear the swearing! Today I’d go mad if any of my pupils used that sort of language in class! My favourite Eminem song Stan was about a man killing his girlfriend which, of course, is horrendous. But I just liked the fact that Eminem was the first well-respected white rapper. I do still listen to rap music sometimes, but I certainly don’t try to look like a rapper any more!
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In 2006 we interviewed Yazmina Simic, a promising singer at the age of sixteen. Amazingly, she started to sing before she could speak. She was just eighteen months old when she first sang “Baa baa black sheep”! For several years, Yazmina sang in a children’s choir in her local church. Her first real performance as a singer was when she was nine. At the Lucia celebration at her school she sang a Carola song solo. One of her teachers encouraged her to apply for a place at the local music school, and after a couple of attempts she was admitted. We caught up with Yazmina at her school, Teleborg Centrum in Växjö.
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Hello, Yazmina! Let’s start with an obvious question. What kind of music do you like? Yazmina: I listen to everything except opera! H: Do you write your own music? Y: Yes, I do. At the Junior Song Contest I took part in, I wrote my own song. H: Did you sing it? Y: Oh yes, of course. I came sixth with Jag vill veta nu (I want to know now). The CD sold almost 60,000 copies. Not bad, is it? H: That’s great. Were you very nervous with television and all the media watching you? Y: No, not at all. For some reason I get calmer the more people there are. I’ ve sung the National Anthem a number of times in front of 3,000 people at Växjö Lakers’ hockey home games. It’ s no problem at all. It’s much worse if there are just a few people in the audience, particularly if you know them well. It’s much more of a strain. I don’t know why. For me it’s a case of the more the merrier! H: Do you have any idols? Y: I think Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey and Agnes Carlsson are very good singers. Agnes can
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Now, listen to the interview with Yazmina on the CD or the Student's Web to find out what she is doing nowadays.
Yazmina (on the right) with her sister Yolanda.
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One Thursday afternoon in late May 1967. Our Mum had sent me down to the chippie to buy sixpenny worth of cod and chips. Oh, and a bottle of ginger beer. It was raining. It was always raining in Liverpool in those days. I’d just come out of the chippie when this big American car pulled up at the side of the road and the back window rolled down. I tried to look inside the car but it was too dark to see who was in there. “Now then, our kid,” someone said. “Those chips look good. Can you spare us one?” I recognised the voice immediately. It was only one of The Fab Four – the four most famous people in the whole of the world. It was Ringo Starr! “Yeah, sure, Ringo. Have them all,” I managed to say. “No, just a couple will do. Look, hop in out of the rain. I’ll take you to where you’re going.” So I hopped in and Ringo and me ate cod and chips in the back of this huge American car, the size of a small house. He told me he’d been visiting one of his aunties and was now going back to London. I only lived a few streets away but, by the time we’d finished the food and drunk the ginger beer, we were well on our way down south. I’d never been out of Lancashire before. I told him this. “Never mind,” said Ringo. “The change’ll do you good.” And he fell asleep. So began my two weeks with The Beatles. When we arrived in London I found a spare room in Ringo’s mansion and the following day I met the others.
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John Lennon was really clever, but frightened me a bit. Paul McCartney was always a real gentleman. I don’t think I heard George Harrison say a single word in all the time that I was there. Now it so happened that I played the guitar a bit myself and had even written some songs. I sang one to John and Paul the next day. It was called “Yellow Garden Shed” and went “We all live in a yellow garden shed, a yellow garden shed, a yellow garden shed”. I don’t really know where the idea came from as we didn’t have a garden shed. To be truthful, we didn’t even have a garden. Paul said that this was amazing, as he’d been working on a song very like it and asked me if I’d like to go along to Abbey Road and see it being recorded. Paul’s song was called “Yellow Submarine” and we recorded it on 26th May. If you listen very carefully you can hear me chinking champagne glasses with a man called Brian Jones who played in The Rolling Stones. I also sang with a lady called Marianne Faithfull who had very long hair. The very next day John and George introduced me to a young American called Bob Dylan. The four of us spent the day together, singing and playing. I was told that Bob was famous for singing protest songs. But the song I liked best was called “Just Like a Woman”. A few days later I played John another of my songs called “Ursula Digby”. It was a sad song about a woman on her own in a churchyard picking up
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some litter. I wrote it to show people they shouldn’t throw litter in the streets. It was a sort of protest song. John said that he’d just written a song rather like that and was going to record it that very afternoon. I was going to go along and help, but in the end I stayed with Ringo and played with his model train set, as John didn’t want any drumming on his new song, “Eleonor Rigby”. I felt a bit sorry for Ringo as he had been left out, but he didn’t mind. He told me that he’d always wanted to be a train driver or a fireman, but only if he could ring the fire engine’s bell. I decided to write a special song so that Ringo could ring a bell on a record. It was about a grocer’s shop at the end of our street. The first verse went:
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I gave it to Ringo and said it was a farewell present. I knew it was time for me to head up north again. Ringo lent me a fiver for the train fare. When I got back home I had an idea for a whole album of songs. It was going to have photographs of many famous people on the front of the sleeve and on the back there would be the words of the songs. In all I wrote twelve of them. I called the album “Captain Onion’s Mobile One Night Stand”. I sent all the words and music to Ringo together with the fiver he’d lent me. In reply he sent me a record the Beatles had just recorded. It was called “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. On the front of the sleeve there were lots of famous people, and on the back the words of the songs. In all, there were twelve songs.
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promotional material, but the record companies soon caught up and started to produce more and more impressive clips specifically for MTV. The music video as an art form had arrived. At first, some people said that MTV was racist: it didn’t give much airtime to black music, even though some black artists, like Michael Jackson, had been making videos before MTV opened. If this had ever been the policy, it was quickly reversed and the well-known Jackson videos, Billie Jean and Thriller, became two of the most popular videos ever. In fact some experts say that Thriller is the best pop video of all time. By the mid 1990s, MTV had developed other types of programmes and no longer relied on music alone. These programmes included cartoons like “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “Daria”, reality shows and comedy shows like “Jackass” and “Punk’d”. In 2002 came another reality show, “The Osbournes”, an everyday story of former Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy, his agent/wife Sharon and two of their three children – the third refused to take part in the filming. It proved an instant success. Not everyone loves MTV. Some people claim that the average teenager listens to 10,000 hours of rock before they leave school. Sitting watching violent or sexual images which would not be allowed on normal TV cannot be good for the young, these people believe. Whatever the pros and cons of MTV, you can safely say that it has changed music. From being used to only listening, we now take it for granted that it is just as possible to watch music. Love it or loathe it, the music is everywhere. Or, as the Monkees sang –
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Live Aid and Live 8 In 1985 Harry Haslam and his wife Jane bought tickets for Live Aid. Twenty years later his daughter Trisha and her boyfriend Mike went to see Live 8. HAPPY asked them for their memories of the events. 5
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Jane and I had watched the television reports of the famine in Ethiopia in November 1984. They were truly terrible. We just couldn’t believe that people were dying in such suffering. Jane : Fortunately other people felt like that too. It was Bob Geldof and his friend Midge Ure who came up with the idea of making a charity record to help the victims of the famine. Geldof was the lead singer with an Irish group called The Boomtown Rats, but they weren’t really that popular any more. Harry : That’s how Do They Know It’s Christmas was recorded. Geldof invited many of the biggest stars of the time to a studio and the song was recorded in one day. Jane : I remember reading that Boy George flew over especially from New York. I’m not sure I can remember who else sang on the record. Oh yes, Sting. He was definitely on it. Harry : It was a huge hit. There were stories that people went into record stores and bought 50 copies, only to give 49 back so they could be resold. I don’t know if that’s true, but it did sell more copies in the UK than any other record ever. Jane : So the following year we were lucky enough to get two tickets for the Live Aid concert. I remember it was a beautiful afternoon and we were both really excited to see so many live bands. Harry : It was amazing to be part of that huge crowd and to think that people all over the world were watching the concerts in London and in Philadelphia. Afterwards someone worked out that it was watched by 1.5 billion people – that’s 85% of the
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world’s television sets. But we were there, on the spot. Jane : It was all about having a good time and raising money. Geldof was really committed to the cause. Of course, he wanted money to help with famine relief, but he also wanted to establish long-term projects that would give people food and financial security. You know the old saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life”. That’s what Live Aid was all about. At one point the US telephone system broke down because so many people were phoning to give money. Harry : It was a really good concert. Several big name groups re-formed especially for the occasion. I’d been a big fan of Led Zeppelin and it was the only time I ever saw them live. Jane : But the real star of the show was Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen. They weren’t
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very popular at the time, but Freddie realised that he could change all that with one brilliant performance. I’ll never forget when he sang: “Is this the world we created, we made it on our own/Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone/If there’s a God in the sky looking down/What can he think of what we’ve done/To the world that He created.” Harry : Some years later Geldof said, “It was the perfect stage for Freddie. He could ponce about in front of the whole world”. And he certainly did just that! HAPPY : Trisha, Mike, tell us about Live 8. There must have been many changes. Trisha : There certainly were. For a start Live 8 wasn’t about raising money. It was about raising support to force the Governments of the eight richest countries in the world to cancel world debt and help Africa get a stronger economy. Mike : This time Geldof didn’t ask for your money; instead he wanted your name. He thought that if millions and millions of people across the world told their leaders what they wanted, then the leaders would have to do it. Trisha : We couldn’t buy tickets directly. We all had to take part in a lottery by texting our phone numbers in. As so many people wanted to be there, this was a fair way of doing it. Mike : And the event took place in nine locations rather than just two. And the technology was much better. Trisha : Just like Dad and Led Zeppelin, I finally saw U2 play live. I thought they were awesome. Mike : There were some really good groups, like REM and Coldplay. But we both thought that the best of all was Robbie Williams. He’s got so much energy. Even if you’re not a big fan of his music, you have to admire the way he makes contact with a crowd. Jane : Like Freddie Mercury? Mike : I guess so. Trisha : But the big news was that one of Dad’s all-time favourite bands re-formed. Pink Floyd were
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there. They hadn’t played together for 24 years. Harry : Now they really were awesome. Mike : One thing I didn’t understand. Why did their bass guitarist dedicate Wish You Were Here “For everyone who’s not here, but particularly, of course, for Syd”? Harry : Because that’s what they always did. It’s for Syd Barrett. Mike : Who? Harry : He started the group. He was a genius. At least I thought so. But he took drugs and gradually started to behave in strange ways, so the rest of the band decided to sack him. They only saw him once again. The story goes that he appeared at the studio when they were recording Wish You Were Here, a song all about him. Mike : Is that true? Harry : I don’t know. But if you wait there a moment, I’ll go and get my Pink Floyd albums. Jane, where are they? Jane : Where do you think they are, you old hippy! In a box up in the attic along with your kaftan and your love beads!
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Robbie Williams at Live 8.
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S E R E T N T I I T N S G O M The Most Recorded Song EVER
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The most recorded song ever is Yesterday, written by Paul McCartney. The song was first recorded by The Beatles in June 1965. Over the next 20 years there were at least 1,600 other versions of the song. It has been said that the song came to McCartney in a dream. He got up, went to the piano and played the song. He then spent weeks trying to work out whether he had really made it up in his sleep or whether he’d heard it before. When John Lennon and Paul weren’t very good friends any more, John is supposed to have said, “Paul only came up with one good song – Yesterday”.
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Youngest EVER Artist To Have a US Number 1 Album Stevie Wonder was 12 years old when his album “Little Stevie Wonder – The Twelve Year Old Genius” topped the US charts in 1962. He has also won more Grammy awards than anyone else. Wonder’s real name is Steveland Morris Judkins. He lost his sight when given too much oxygen shortly after he was born. The story goes that when he was a toddler he beat spoons on the furniture until he was given a drum. In 1976 he signed a record deal with Motown worth $13,000,000 – the biggest deal ever at the time. In that year he also released his masterpiece, “Songs in the Key of Life”.
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Shortest, Wildest, Most Useless and Most Costly Recording Contract EVER For a week, the Sex Pistols were signed by the record company A & M. After having created chaos and smashed a lot of furniture in a house belonging to the company they were kicked out with a nice little sum of £75,000 in their pockets. £75,000 for seven days of doing absolutely nothing that had anything to do with music! The Sex Pistols were not popular with everyone. A politician said he thought that the Sex Pistols would be vastly improved by sudden death. He would like to see someone dig a huge hole and bury the lot of them in it.
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R E V E S T C A F P PO Fastest-Selling Rap Artist EVER Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) released his “The Marshall Mathers LP” in May 2000. It sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week in the USA. That’s almost three every second. By 2012 he had sold a total of 90 million albums. Things haven’t always been easy for Eminem. He was told by Australian politicians to stay away from their country. They thought his lyrics were offensive. He finally went there in 2001 and when he left Sydney three fans turned up to wave him goodbye.
Most Successful Female Solo Artist EVER In terms of numbers Madonna is undoubtedly the most successful female solo artist of all time. She has had 38 top 10 singles and 19 top 10 albums in the US. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone – her full name – started as a ballet dancer and drummer. Her screen career can’t match her singing career at all. The only time her acting worked was in “Desperately Seeking Susan”, where, according to some critics, she didn’t act but merely was herself.
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Most LIVE Appearances after Death EVER Since his reported death Elvis Presley has been seen in hundreds of places, for example: • Working at Betty’s Hair Hut in Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA. • Teaching Biology at a school in Lancaster, England. • Buying onions in a Norwegian supermarket. • Buying frozen peas and fish fingers at the Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store, Fort Arthur, Texas. Many people have pointed out that “Elvis” and “lives” have the same letters. Does that mean that Elvis lives? What do you think?
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