Bob Dylan (2/3)

Dear students,

The second activity related to the life and career of Bob Dylan is to complete the crossword on the vocabulary of the video.

If you need to watch it again, do not hesitate to do so!

:)

Lara

Crossword

  

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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Across: 1. It is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. 4. Possession of the qualities required to do something; necessary skill, competence, or power. 7. (of a musical instrument or recording) Without electronic amplification. 9. A person who composes the words or music for songs in a popular idiom. 11. One or more CDs, cassettes, or long-playing records released as a single item. 13. A person who practises or is skilled in an art (painting, drawing, music, etc.). 15. A thin disc of a plastic material upon which sound has been recorded. Each side has a spiral groove, which undulates in accordance with the frequency and amplitude of the sound. Records were formerly made from a shellac-based compound but were later made from vinyl plastics.

Down: 2. To judge (something) with disapproval; censure. 3. The words of a song. 5. It is both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. 6. A person who plays or composes music, esp as a profession. 8. A trip made by a theatre company, orchestra, etc, to perform in several different places. 10. Having or exerting influence. 12. A person who sings, esp one who earns a living by singing. 14. Music that is passed on from generation to generation by oral tradition.