Read the text below and think of the word that best fits each gap. Use one word only in each gap. Pablo Picasso - early life Pablo Picasso was a famous painter. He was born in Málaga 1 _____ 25 October 1881 and he died in 1973. While he was 2 _____ up, his father started teaching him art. He soon saw that Picasso 3 _____ very good at drawing and painting. In 1900, after studying art in Madrid, Picasso went to Paris for the first time. It was an important centre of art at the time. He was living there 4 _____ he met Max Jacob, a poet and journalist. They became friends. Often they 5 _____ have money to buy food and they 6 _____ to burn some of Picasso's paintings to stay warm. Soon, Picasso moved back to Madrid. As well as painting, he wrote for a magazine called Young Art. Between 1901 and 1904 Picasso 7 _____ many pictures using mainly the colour blue. This time in his life was called the Blue Period and 8 _____ are many famous paintings from this period, for example The Old Guitarist. Listen to a radio show. Are these sentences True (T) or False (F), or is the information Not Mentioned (NM)? 1 Billie started writing songs by the age of 11. T/F/NM 2 Finneas wrote the song Ocean Eyes, but Billie thought of the title. T/F/NM 3 Finneas and Billie made the video for Ocean Eyes themselves. T/F/NM 4 Billie was famous all over the world before she was 15 years old. T/F/NM 5 Billie won an award for performing the song for the film No Time to Die. T/F/NM 6 Billie has got a lot of prizes for her work, including seven Grammys. T/F/NM Listen again and complete the notes. Billie Eilish was born in California on 18 December, 1 _____ Her family was musical, her mother wrote songs and her dad played musical instruments, including the 2 _____ Her brother, Finneas, was in a band and he is a/an 3 _____ too. Billie recorded the song Ocean Eyes in 4 _____ 2015. After uploading it online, over 5 _____ people listened to the song and Billie became famous. As well as singing, Billie is a dancer and a/an 6 _____