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Coldplay

Date: Jun 05 2005

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

The band Coldplay is pretty popular here in the US. People fell in the love with their song called Yellow and keep coming back for more.
Check out what’s new with the band.

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.

Kyle

Derek

Kyle: Hey Derek, I hear Coldplay’s coming out with a new album.

Derek: Yeah. I thought that was, uh, pretty cool. I liked their last couple albums. Those are pretty good.

Kyle: Yeah. I never bought the first one. What was that called?

Derek: It was called, uh, Parachutes.

Kyle: Yeah. I like some of the songs off of it. But I never bought the album, but I bought, A Rush of, what is it? A Rush of Blood to the Head?

Derek: Yeah. That was the second one wasn’t it?

Kyle: Yeah. I really enjoyed that album so I’m really looking forward to picking up the new one.

Derek: That’s cool. Yeah. They did a feature on VH1 recently and I also heard that they were comparing them to U2.

Kyle: Yeah. Well, they’re definitely getting big these days.

Derek: Yeah. I like to see how they’re going.

Kyle: Well, I’ll go pick up the album and maybe we can listen to it.

Derek: Sounds like a good plan.

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Discussion

Coldplay really is getting bigger. It seems like everywhere you turn, people are talking about them.
They perform often and put out quite a few CDs as well.
Have you heard much Coldplay? What do you think of their stuff?