408 - Reading - Marylin Monroe

1-I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about movie star Marilyn Monroe. She died many years ago, yet still is one of the best known American women.

2. Her name at birth was Norma Jean Baker. Her life as a child was like a bad dream. She lived with a number of different people, and often was mistreated.

3. At age sixteen Norma Jean married a sailor. But she soon ended that marriage. She changed her hair color from brown to shining gold. And she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

4. She wanted to be an actress. And she succeeded. She appeared in a number of Hollywood movies. Millions of people went to see them. By the time Norma Jean had reached the age of twenty-six, her beautiful face and body earned her a place as one of America's leading movie stars.

5. But success and fame were not enough to make her happy. The troubles of her childhood days stayed with her. She drank too much alcohol. She took too many drugs.

6. At the age of thirty-six, she took her own life. She has been dead since nineteen sixty-two. Still, her fame continues to grow. People born long after she died are watching her movies on television. Objects that belonged to her bring huge prices at public sales.

1. Enough - suficiente
2. Troubles - problemas
3. childhood - infância
4. take drugs - usar drogas ( took - past)
5. Take its own life - tirar a própria vida/ se matar
6. dead - morta
7. since - desde
8. to grow - crescer
9. People born - pessoas nascidas
10. Long after - muito tempo depois
11. belonged to - pertenciam a 
12. huge prices - preços altos

Grammar

1- I would like to / I'd like to

2- I would rather / I'd rather

3- to buy something for somebody

4- to sell something to somebody

5- to write/to read something to somebody

6- somewhere

7- anywhere

8- nowhere

9- somebody

10- anybody

11- nobody

Sentences

1- I bought something for my mother downtown.

2- I didn't buy anything for my brother at the mall.

3- Did you buy anything for me?

4- I bought nothing for you.

5- I would like to write a letter of apology to them.

6- I would rather write a letter of apology to them.

7- He sold his tickets to his friend.

8- My family is gonna go to somewhere on this vacation.

9- My family isn't gonna go to anywhere on this vacation.

10- My family is gonna go to nowhere on this vacation.

11- I have written many emails to somedody.

12- She hasn't sold anything to anybody.

13- Have you done anything for your family?

14- I read nothing to my children.

15- I can't use my corporate card to pay my personal trips.

16- You could have written a letter of apology explaining in details what happened.

17- She could have sold a different type of necklace.

18- Could Lucas have bought a gift to his teacher on his birthday?

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