Madonna’s Birthday – level 1
22-08-2018 07:00
Madonna is a singer. She is from the USA. She was born on 16th August 1958. Last week, it was her 60th birthday.
Madonna is the biggest woman singer. She sings for 40 years. She sells 300 million records. Some of her biggest hits are ‘Like a Virgin’, ‘Papa Don’t Preach’, ‘Vogue’ and ‘Ray of Light’.
She is sixty but she is still working. She has six children. She adopted four of them. They are from Africa.
Difficult words: was (past of ‘is’), record (a recording of music such as on a cassette or a CD), adopted (when you adopt a child, you are the parent of a child which is not your son or daughter).
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