Language Level: Intermediate CEFr A2-B1
Listen to this adapted extract from a newspaper report published soon after the death of David Bowie in January 1916.
Listening: Name the three beneficiaries of David Bowie (people who received money, property, etc.).
Reading – read and check answers, including the percentage and/or amount that each person received.
David Bowie left an estate of around $100m. He instructed that most of this was to be divided between his wife, Iman, and his two children.
He also left $2m to his long-standing personal assistant Corinne Schwab and $1m to Marion Skene, a friend of Bowie’s and the nanny to his eldest child.
As well as a 25% share in the estate, Bowie left a property on Little Tonshi Mountain, near Woodstock, to his 15-year-old daughter, Alexandria. Duncan Jones, Bowie’s 44-year-old son from his previous marriage to Angela Barnett, inherited 25%.
The remaining 50% of the estate went to his wife, Iman.
Find the words in bold that mean the following
- A house or building.
- Looks after children in a family home
- All money, property, and possessions are owned.
- Received from a person who has died.
- Document activated upon death.