Language Level: Intermediate CEFr A2-B1
Listen this adapted extract from a newspaper report published soon after the death of David Bowie in January 1916.
Listening – Name the three beneficiaries (people who received money property etc.
Reading – read and check answers, including the percentage and/or amount that each person received.
In his will, 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 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 family home
- All money, property and possession owned.
- Received from a person who dies
- Document activated upon death.
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