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