Thursday the 13th of June Dictation

Something different this week guys... This is a biography of a British artist that we're going to listen to.

Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew (born 22 October 1983), primarily known as Plan B or Ben Drew, is an English rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director from London. Plan B first started as a hip hop artist releasing his well received first album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words in 2006. His second studio album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010), was a soul record and went straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart. He has also worked with other artists such as Chase & Status most notably on the top ten single "End Credits" (2009).

Drew has also had a successful film career as an actor, with roles in Adulthood (2008), Harry Brown (2009) and The Sweeney (2012). In 2012, Drew released the film Ill Manors, which he had written and directed, and Plan B also released an accompanying soundtrack album which became his second number one album.

White Lies: Part 4

Here's the final part of the story:

I felt terrible as my mum walked over and pulled the report card out of the dog’s mouth. Unfortunately for me, the paper apparently wasn’t all that tasty and she hadn’t eaten that much. All my poor grades were still visible, as was the date from four weeks ago.

Needless to say my parents were furious and they grounded me until the end of the year. They stopped allowing me to use the phone too, which meant that when my friends called they learned that my crazy stories weren’t true at all. That really screwed up my social life and my relationships with my friends.

It took a long time to regain my friends’ trust, even longer to get my parents’ trust back. But I learned the most valuable lesson in my life; ‘white lies’ don’t exist. Every lie, no matter how small it may seem, is still a lie. They always catch up with you.

Activities:
Write a list of all the verbs in the past simple.

Find two adjectives in the text.

What do you think 'screwed up' means?