Penelope Cruz - Listening

Requested by Yura.

Do you remember the lesson English accents? The lesson aimed to give you an awareness of the many different accents that you may hear people speaking in.

You should expose yourself to as many different accents as possible as it is very unlikely you will only hear ‘standard English’ when outside the classroom.

Penelope Cruz is an actress from Spain.

Listen very carefully to the interview and then see if you can answer the true or false questions below.

Lesson by Caroline

• 1. Penelope Cruz grew up right in the centre of a city.
  
  True
  False
  
  
• 2. Everyone in Penelope’s family loved movies.
  
  False
  True
  
  
• 3. Penelope prefers Los Angeles to New York.
  
  True
  False
  
  
• 4. When Penelope was a teenager she used to go to the cinema by herself.
  
  True
  False
  
  
• 5. People love Woody Allen in Spain.
  
  True
  False
  
  
• 6. Woody Allen meets with his actresses for very long interviews.
  
  False
  True
  
  
• 7. After the Oscars Penelope felt she had to eat a cheese burger!
  
  True
  False
  
  
• 8. Penelope studied ballet as a child.
  
  False
  True