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Festival documentary

Jimmy Kimmel, a TV host in the United States, sends a woman to a well-known music festival in California, called Coachella.
Because music fans like to say they know new bands before other people, the host interviews music fans about fake bands, to see if the fans will pretend that they know them.

  • Study the vocabulary.
  • Read the questions.
  • Watch the video.
  • Answer the questions.
  • Read the audio script and fill in the gaps.

Study the vocabulary.

to wrap up to finish, to end
up-and-coming new, emerging, becoming more popular
to conduct
[an experiment]   
to do an experiment, to try something
venue the place where an event happens, takes place
to make up to create, invent
obscure not well-known: not known to most people
to play “live” to play or give a concert in person
a highlight something (such as an event or a detail) that is very interesting,
exciting, or important: the best part of something
polka

a lively dance and type of music for couples that is popular with older generations in the Midwest United States

innovative having new ideas, creative
straight out of [somewhere] to come from a specific place
to give off to emit, to let out, to send

 

Read the questions.

  • Who created the fake band names?
  • How does the host describe “Shorty Jizzle and the Plumbercracks?”
  • Does anyone admit, or say, that they have not heard of the band?
  • What does the host say Coachella means in an American Indian language?

Watch the video and answer the questions.

 

Choose the right answer.

Who created the fake band names?

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How does the host describe 'Shorty Jizzle and the Plumbercracks? '

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Does anyone admit, or say, that they have not heard of the band?

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What does the host say Coachella means in an American Indian language?

Festival documentary - audioscript

Read the audioscript and fill in the gaps.

One more thing, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival wrapped up yesterday.
It’s a huge concert. It goes over two weekends. It’s out in the middle of the California desert.
More than sixty bands played at Coachella this year. Some of them big bands, some of them not-so-big, some up-and-coming bands.
Music fans in general love knowing about bands that no one else has ever heard of.
So, we decided to conduct an experiment.
We sent a camera crew to Coachella and we asked people walking into the venue what they thought of a bunch of bands whose names we made up.
Okay, these bands are so obscure that they do not exist.
Except for one name you will hear here, we made all of them up, but that didn’t stop people from saying they knew them in tonight’s special Coachella edition of Lie Witness News.

  • Host: One of my favorite bands this year is “Dr. Schlomo and the GI Clinic.”
  • Girl 1: Yeah.
  • Host: Yeah. They’re .
  • Girl 1: Yeah, They’re always amazing.
  • Host: He’s really good on the flexic.
  • Girl 2: Yeah, I’m to see them live. I think that’s going to one of the bands that’s gonna be really great live.
  • Girl 1: Me too, it’s going to be a highlight.
  • Host: Did you see them when they played at Lollapalooza?
  • Girl 1: No.
  • Girl 2: No, I didn’t.
  • Host: Aren’t you so mad?
  • Girl 1: I know, I’m so mad.
  • Host: Have you heard of “Shorty Jizzle and the Plumbercracks?”
  • Guy: Yep.
  • Host: What do you them? Like, how raw they are?
  • Guy: Yeah, they’re, I mean, they’re really unique, for sure.
  • Host: They feel a little bit like a between, like, Bob Dylan and, like, a polka band.
  • Guy: Yeah, um.
  • Host: Are you guys as excited as I am about “The Obesity Epidemic?”
  • Guy: I just like their whole style. Like their whole genre, just great. They’re kind of, like, they’re like, very innovative and they’re new.
  • Host: They’re some smaller bands that . “Two Door Cinema Club.” They’re good.
  • Guy: Yeah, I’m looking forward to them.
  • Host: Do you like their album DJ Cornmeal?
  • Guy: Yeah, actually, I, um, had a radio show on a community radio show up in Canada and I used to spin them .
  • Host: Oh, wow, sounds like a great show.
  • Host: One of my favorite bands this year is called “Get the Fuck Out of My Pool.”
  • Girl: Yeah, actually, that, I’ve heard from my friends, I don’t know any of their music, but I’ve heard from all of my friends that it’s not something to miss. So I’m not gonna miss it.
  • Host: One of my favorite things today, straight out of Williamsburg, the “Chelsea Clintons.”
  • Girl: Yeah, actually, that, I’ve heard from my friends, I don’t know any of their music, but I’ve heard from all of my friends that it’s . So I’m not gonna miss it.
  • Host: One of my favorite things today, straight out of Williamsburg, the “Chelsea Clintons.”
  • Girl: Oh, yeah, I have heard of them . No, yeah, I don’t know if I’m gonna see them or not. But I do know of their music.
  • Host: What did you hear about them?
  • Girl: Its, they’re just fun.
  • Host: What’s fun about the “Chelsea Clintons?”
  • Girl: I think they just give off good . Like, you know, and you can just tell that they’re doing it from a good place.
    And it’s, like, you can just feel energy, I feel. And there’s, like, very few acts that, like, give you that feeling.
  • Host: Did you know that Coachella is actually the American Indian word for ?
  • Guy: Really?
  • Girl 1: It’s Fucking Coachella Twenty-Thirteen! Woo!
  • Girl 2: We love Coachella.
  • Host: Are you guys excited for “Regis and the Philbin?”
  • Girl 2: Very excited!

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