The story of how ONE DIRECTION was formed.

[ Wikipedia] Read the following passage and answer the questions. In 2010, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan applied as solo candidates for the seventh series of The X Factor [a talent competition], but failed to qualify for the "Boys" category. After suggestion by guest judge Nicole Scherzinger, they were put together to form the five-piece boy band One Direction, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category.[ The newly formed boy band had five weeks to gel as a group before the next stage of the competition. The group got together for week-long practice sessions in Manchester in a bungalow at the bottom of Styles's stepfather's garden to get to know each other, and to practice. Malik said: "we didn't know what a harmony was. We all just sang in unison for two weeks." Payne agreed: "we just threw ideas around. The first few days were quite tough. We all had different ideas but we didn't really know what a group was about." Styles came up with the band name, One Direction as he thought it would sound good when X Factor announcer Peter Dickson read their name out on the live shows. For their qualifying song, and their first as a group, at judges houses, One Direction sang an acoustic version of "Torn". In the live shows, One Direction covered songs by musical acts; Pink, Coldplay, The Beatles, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Kim Wilde and Rihanna, among others. After the elimination of F.Y.D., Diva Fever and Belle Amie within four weeks, they were Simon Cowell's last act in the competition. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK. One Direction finished in third place behind runner-up Rebecca Ferguson and winner Matt Cardle. Immediately after the final, their song "Forever Young", which would have been released if they had won The X Factor, was leaked onto the internet. The group said that the experience was a learning curve, Payne saying: "normally when you put together a band they have some time to go away and do development but we had to do that on a live competition, in front of 20 million people. If you make a mistake in front of an audience like that, you get voted out. We had no room for error whatsoever. We had to grow up very, very fast." Tomlinson added, "We were gutted when we didn't win. But then we just started to reflect on it and we thought, we were the last group there, the youngest in the competition, and we didn't even know each other months ago. And when you look at it like that, we did really well. Some people say X Factor is an easy ride and a queue jump to fame. But we came from nothing, and had no experience as a group at all. And for me, by the time we came to the end of the show, we were a completely different group. We worked so hard, and achieved so much.

QUESTIONS

1. In what singing competition did the artist participate?

2. Which judge suggested that they form a band?

3. Nicole Scherzinger

4. What does the following mean?

a) Solo candidate. single singer b) To gel as a group. To work together as a group.

5. Why do you think Styles thought that the name One Direction would sound good when announced? Student will give their own answer.

6. Give antonyms for the following words: a) Immediately - eventually, later, [any one] b) Youngest - oldest c) New old, used [any one]

7. Give synonyms for the following words:

a) Practice convenance, convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, habitude,

manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont [ any one.]

b) Reflect - cast, catch, copy, echo, emulate, flash, follow, give forth, imitate,

match, mirror, rebound, repeat, reply, reproduce, resonate, resound, return, reverberate, reverse, revert, shine, take after, throw back [any one.] c) Group - accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, assortment, band, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, cartel, category, chain, circle, class, clique, clot, club, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, combination, combine, company, conglomerate, congregation, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, faction, formation, gang, gathering, grade, league, lot, mess, organization, pack, parcel, party, passel, platoon, pool, posse, set, shooting match, society, sort, suite, syndicate, troop, trust d) Gutted - bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate, exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack 7.Why do you think One Direction did not win the talent show? Students will write their own answer Could include things like: Too young, little experience etc.

ANSWERS

1. In what singing competition did the artist participate? X FACTOR 2. Which judge suggested that they form a band?

3. What does the following mean?

c) Solo candidate. d) To gel as a group.

4. Why do you think Styles thought that the name One Direction would sound good when announced? 5. Give antonyms for the following words: d) Immediately e) Youngest f) New g) Gutted 6. Give synonyms for the following words: e) Practice f) Reflect g) Group 7.Why do you think One Direction did not win the talent show?