04/11/2011

Leonard Cohen's acceptance speech

Listen to the speech given by Leonard Cohen at the Principe de Asturias awards ceremony and answer the questions below. You can check you answers in the comments section.


1. Leonard Cohen is not used to ____________________without an orchestra.
2. Poetry is a territory that nobody can ________________ or ________________.
3. His Spanish guitar stills smells the same as _____________________.
4. Federico García Lorca gave him permission to ____________________.
5. He communicated with the young Spanish man in ___________________.
6. The young man agreed to ____________________.
7. Many flamenco songs are based on a _________________.
8. On the fourth day the young man didn’t come. Cohen found out that he ________.
9. Cohen felt __________________.
10. The basis of his music has been __________________.

2 comments:

Ana Franco Cottle said...

1.standing in front of an audience
2.command or conquer
3.the day he acquired it
4.find his voice
5. broken French
6. give him guitar lessons
7. six chord progression
8. had taken his life
9. deeply saddened
10. the flmenco guitar pattern

Ana Alvarez-Cedrón said...

Hopefully all of English-people speak like Leonard Cohen !!!