Pharell Williams

• Engels
• Middelbare school

Assignment 20

1 It's an interview

2 William's popularity, his background, his music and his personality

3 Personal answers

4 Personal answers

Assignment 21

1 b

2 e

3 a

4 c

5 d

Assignment 22

1 The fact that Pharell Williams is already "quite old" (40) and that, before "Happy", he hadn't a major solo hit single in six years.

2 They meet at Sony headquarters, where Pharell Williams is playing with his new album to an audience for the first time. It's also where the interview takes place.

3 They are totally different. They contain no questionable lyrics like "Blurred lines", but are in fact very woman-friendly.

4 It was received very well by journalists and critics.

5 He is gentle, extravagant and humble.

6 He was privileged because he was gifted and he came from a background where he was given every opportunity to develop himself.

7 He grew up in Virginia Beach, where there was no music industry.

8 They had a totally different background; they came from a world with drugs and violence, while Pharell came from a privileged background.

9 He says it was a caricature, he tried to copy his peers by telling "big stories", but failed because he came from a different world.

10 He sings about love and lust, and he's happy with that.

11 He says he wants to put something medicinal in his music, which means that his music should lift you up, not put you down.

12 He is a humble superstar.

Assignment 23

1 f

2 m

3 i

4 p

5 b

6 c

7 d

8 a

9 l

10 g

11 q

12 h

13 k

14 e

15 n

B:

1 privileged

2 rapturous

3 delusion

4 contemporaries

5 collide

6 astonished

Assignment  24 A

1 d

2 g

3 a

4 f

5 b

6 c

7 h

8 e

Assignment 24B

1 play the second fiddle

2 blow the whistle

3 face the music

4 struck a false note

5 rings a bell

6 sound like a broken record

Assignment 25

1 Why

2 Which

3 Who

4 How

5 Where

6 When / What

7 What

8 Why