The Two Singers

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Host: How are we?
Abby: Really, really nervous.
Host: What are your names?
Abby: Abby and Lisa.
Host: What’s the name of the group? Ablisa.
Abby: I’m Abby.
Lisa: And I’m Lisa.
Abby and Lisa: And we are Ablisa.

Abby: We’re both really loud and verbal. We like to put our music on and jump around and go.
Abby: We’re together every day.
Lisa: I stayed at her house for the whole of this week. How cool is that?

Host: Good luck.
Lisa: We just want to live the dream, get on the stage, show our personalities, and hopefully the judges will like us. We do everything together.

Simon: Hello.
Lisa: Hi.
Simon: Welcome.
Lisa: Oh my god, it’s Sheryl.
Abby: It’s Louie.
Simon: Louie?
Lisa: And I said he was a really old man. Sorry. I was saying you could be the same age as my granddad. I said . . . sorry.
Louie: What do you mean, old?
Simon: Louie, Louie, let’s go back to these two: what are your names?
Abby: Abby and Lisa.
Simon: And how old are you both?
Abby: Eighteen.
Lisa: Seventeen.
Simon: Are you sisters?
Abby: Best friends.
Lisa: No, my sister’s her cousin.
Simon: You’re either friends or sisters.
Lisa: We’re friends.
Simon: Friends. Okay, so why have you decided to do this?
Abby: Because I don’t know . . . It’s just like . . . I don’t know . . . It’s basically . . .
Lisa: Can everybody stop laughing at me. Basically, we’re just randomly singing at each other.
Abby: We’re just like . . . I don’t know people we like can get confidence to do things.
Simon: Hang on, hang on.
Audience: Boo. Boo.
Abby and Lisa: Shut up!
Audience: Boo. Boo.

 
Judge: They’re coming back.
Simon: Are they coming back?
Simon: Hang on. Okay, so we’ve had the first tantrum. We’ve got it worked out now?
Abby: Yeah.
Simon: What are you going to sing?
Abby: Sengon.
Lisa: I think we’re going to do Sengon.
Simon: You can agree on that, can you?
Abby: Yeah.
Simon: Good.
Lisa: Have you got it? Where’s the music?
Abby: Ready?

 
Lisa: Basically, at the end of the day, we don’t care what you guys say, we came here. But at the end of the day, yeah, we care what you think, but she’s just being a bitch, over the top.

Simon: Can I be honest with you two? You have the worst attitude of any contestants that I have ever met on any of these shows. Seriously, seriously, rude.
Lisa: Like when your there, and we’re up here, and they’re like ‘boo. Boo,” you’re not going to be like . . .”
Simon: Lisa, you did tell them to shut up before you even started to sing.
Lisa: I know. But at the end of the day, the audience were told for an opinion, so . . .

Judge: The singing was not great, girls.
Lisa: Who are you, may I ask?

Questions

1. Abby and Lisa came on the X-Factor to dance. True or false?

2. Did they “insult” Louie, one of the judges? What did they say?

3. Are Abby and Lisa teenagers, young-adults, middle-aged or old? How old are they?

4. They are sisters. Yes, no, maybe, yes-and-no?

5. Why did they decide to come on the X-Factor? Did they give a direct, straight answer?

6. Abby and Lisa started singing immediately. Is this right or wrong? What happened?

7. The judges and audience loved them. Is this correct or incorrect?

8. What happened at the end?

A. I know people who are like Abby and Lisa. Yes or no?

B. Are there people in your community, society or country similar to them?

C. Some people in my class, school or company love to sing.

D. My friends want to sing on Britain’s Got Talent, American Idol or the X-Factor. True or false?

E. What will happen in the future?