exercise 4c Spot the phrase. How are these phrases expressed in the text?
1. a friend of mine
2. fell in love
3. at the time
4. not taking into consideration
5. for hours and hours a day
6. a year into his new obsession
7. she hung up the phone
8. out of millions and millions of people in the world
9. I walked in the room
10. he went on to study
11. such an inspiration

exercise 4d Translate this story into English. Use the phrases from the previous exercise.
1. A few years ago, I fell in love with David Gilmour’s music / the music of David Gilmour.
2. At the time I didn’t believe in myself very much, so I only dreamt/dreamed about learning to play.
3. Then, a friend of mine finally told me to do something about it.
4. And like thousands of young people in the world, I picked up the guitar for the first time.
5. Now I practise for many hours / hours and hours a day and I love it!

exercise 4e Fill in with suitable words in their correct form. There are three extra words. 1. discouraged
2. keyboards
3. auditioned
4. label
5. debut
6. album
7. released
8. composed
9. pieces
10. proceeded
11. major