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2 Listen and check your answers to 1. Then listen again and repeat. Rearrange the names so that
all four names in each group have the same vowel sound.
What's in a name?
Work in small groups. Discuss the following questions.
a, What name would you give this baby girl?
b, What names do you like for a boy?
c, How did your parents choose your name?
Reading
What do you think the following famous people have in common? Read the article and find out.
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Elton John + Marilyn Monroe
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David Bowie + Demi Moore
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Madonna + Bill Clinton
names: Rummer Glenn, Scout LaRue and
NAME GAME
Tallulah Belle!
These days it's fashionable to give your
child the name of place that is important to you:
Victoria (Posh Spice) and David Beckham
Your name is extremely important. It's how you
decided to call their son Brooklyn because they
identify yourself. It's how other people identify you.
were in New York when they discovered that
Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Can
Victoria was going to have a • baby. Madonna
you imagine someone famous with a name like that?
named her daughter Lourdes after the town in
He had to change it. Marilyn Moore sounds so much
France, and ex-US-President Bill Clinton named
more glamorous than Norma Jean Baker. So how do
his daughter Chelsea
parents make one of the most important decisions in
after a part of London
the lives of their children - giving them a name?
that he and his wife
Some parents choose names because they are
liked".
fashionable. Other parents do the opposite and call
Personally, I
their children unusual names, or they even invent
think it's a good idea to
names. Helen Petrie, a psychologist at Hertfordshire
give children names of
University, says that people who choose unusual
famous people.
names for their children want to show how special
Leornardo Di Caprio
they are.
was named after the famous Italian painter, and
However, the children are not always very
Liam Gallagher, singer with the band Oasis,
happy with their parents' choice. David Bowie's son
called his son Lennon after his hero, John.
found the name Zowie so embarrassing that he
I wanted to call my first child Elvis, and
changed it to Joe. I wonder if Bruce Willis and Demi
my husband wanted to call him PelD. Fortunately
Moore's children feel good about their
she was a girl, so we named her after my
favourite aunt-Blodwen.
Reginald Kenneth Dwight (Elton John)