Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Singer Avril Lavigne does things earlier than other people. By the time she was 15, she’d appeared on stage alongside country music super star Shania Twain. At 16 she signed a record deal, and at 17 her first album Let Go was a huge hit around the world.
Avril has been an early bloomer in her personal life, too. She got married at 21, which is a lot younger than the age at which most American women marry. Three years later, she got divorced. So now, at 26, she already has four albums and a marriage under her belt. Find out what Jason and Ella think she’ll do next.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Jason: I’m kind of excited that Avril Lavigne is available again.
Ella: Yeah, I wish she would just go away. I can’t stand her.
Jason: Really?
Ella: Yeah, I’m not a fan of her music, and then she tries so hard to be like punk star rocker, getting married young, you know, rebelling, and now divorced. Come on.
Jason: Oh interesting. You think getting married young is a form of rebellion?
Ella: I mean, yeah, it would totally fit her image, you know, like crazy pink hair. She started the black nail polish, you know, basically. And getting married young…just all those things you’re definitely not supposed to do.
Jason: Well if you’re getting married at age 20 you might not want to marry the singer of Sum 41, you know?
Ella: Yeah, definitely.
Jason: I was upset about it when it happened. She’s like exactly the same age as me, and when her song “Complicated” came out and she was 17 and she was number one, I was 17 and in a punk band. And then she went and married, you know, Deryck Whibley from what I regard as like the worst punk band of that era.
Ella: It’s like the anti-punk almost.
Jason: Yeah.
Ella: Yeah, I can see that as being upsetting, but clearly it was just puppy love since they divorced. That didn’t work out well.
Jason: Would you ever get married that young? I mean, obviously neither of us did.
Ella: I feel like at 24 right now I still don’t know a lot, so there’s definitely less that I knew about love and life at 20.
Jason: I was kind of silly at age 20. I don’t know if it would have been a good idea.
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Discussion
Jason is the same age as Avril Lavigne, and he had a crush on her when she first became famous at age 17. He was sad when she got married young. But now she is available again, and Jason is a little excited. Maybe he thinks he has a chance at becoming Avril’s second husband.
Ella doesn’t like Avril Lavigne. She thinks Avril tries too hard to be punk. She even thinks that Avril got married young as a form of rebellion.
At what age do people usually get married in your country? Do you think it is a good idea to get married young?
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