Exercise 3: Listen and complete the text with NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR
A NUMBER. (Track 03)
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958. He was born in Gary, Indiana, an
industrial (1) _______________of Chicago. He was and is known as the “(2)
_______________of pop”. He was an American musician. He started a solo career in 1971.
His 1982 album (3) _______________remains the (4) _______________album of all
times. He popularized dance moves, such as the robot and the (5) _______________He
was very successful in his music career. He won 13 (6) _______________He earned
millions of dollars and donated them to (7) _______________In the 1980’s Michael’s
(8)_______________started to change because of a disease called vitiligo, and that was a
(9) _______________. for everyone. He got married twice, first in 1994 with Lisa Marie
Presley, Elvis Presley’s (10) _______________ and again in 1996 with Deborah Jeanne
Rowe, a dermatology nurse. Michael had three (11)_______________ He died in 2009, it
is said that an overdose of the (12) _______________Demerol was the cause of his death
but it is not confirmed.