Regular – Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal Show in Las Vegas

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Warm Up

  1. What entertains you? ?
  2. What comes to your mind when Las Vegas is mentioned?

Listening

Before the video: Teachers will read the following questions aloud, please prepare for listening!
After the video: Did you get it? If not, please tell your teacher specifically which part you didn’t understand. Let’s review the video again 🙂
  1. Where did the presenter meet Wayne Newton?
  2. This town is kind of the ……… of entertainment?
  3. How long was his break from entertainment?
Key Words & Phrases
Do you understand the following Key Words & Phrases? Your teacher will select Key Words & Phrases and ask you about their meanings.
If you don’t understand, your teacher can explain them. Afterwards, try to use the Key Words & Phrases to make a sentence!
  1. This town is kind of the Olympics of entertaining. It has embraced almost every kind of show.
  2. We had the rare opportunity today to meet him at the Casa de Shenandoah.
  3. Next time you come to Vegas, you have to check out Wayne’s new show, Up Close and Personal, to get all sorts of little stories, and anecdotes
  4. You’re going back onstage?
  1. Have you been to any kind of shows?
  2. What TV shows are you interested in? 
  3. Do you have a favourite entertainer, ie a comedian or singer like Wayne Newton?
00:09 – [Presenter] After a five-year hiatus, Wayne Newton
00:12 has returned to the stage to perform some of his classics.
00:15 We had the rare opportunity today to meet him
00:18 at the Casa de Shenandoah.
00:20 – You’re going back onstage?
00:22 – As a matter of fact, I am back onstage.
00:24 I decided to write a new show.
00:27 And I decided to write a show that were kinda the preludes
00:32 to what Las Vegas has become.
00:41 It has embraced almost every kind of show
00:47 that you could embrace,
00:48 and where else in the world can you find that?
00:55 When I took about five years off,
00:59 I took it off to open this up to the public,
01:03 let them see what our regular day is like
01:07 before we get in the car and go to work.
01:11 And, it’s been a tremendous success,
01:15 thanks to people like you.
01:18 – Next time you come to Vegas,
01:19 you have to check out Wayne’s new show,
01:21 Up Close and Personal,
01:22 to get all sorts of little stories, and anecdotes
01:25 and ask him some questions too,
01:27 on the life of Las Vegas
01:29 and so many of the most amazing acts
01:35 and music, and entertainment, to our lives.
01:38 – [Wayne] Thank you. – It’s just real neat.