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INTERACTIVE TOPIC · CHAPTER 4 — LEISURE

Screen & Music

From Handel to the Beatles, the Proms to the Fringe, and a broadcaster the whole world envies. Match the musicians, sort the channels, and flip the screen legends.

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STEP 1 · PRIME YOUR BRAIN

Before we start — have a guess

Two warm-up questions on British culture.

The Beatles came from which English city?

The BBC is mainly funded by…

STEP 2 · THE PICTURE

A culture in four sounds

🎼 The classics — Handel, Elgar, the Proms 🎸 The invasion — the Beatles and Queen 🎭 The stage — Lloyd Webber’s West End musicals 📺 The screen — the BBC, Doctor Who, the Fringe

Three centuries of it, and one exam trap to watch: Edinburgh owns the Fringe, London owns the Proms.

STEP 3 · LEARN BY DOING — 1 OF 2

Match the musicians

Tap a name, then tap their music.

LEARN BY DOING — 2 OF 2

BBC or not the BBC?

Tap a programme to select it, then tap where it belongs.

📺 BBC

🚫 Not the BBC

SCREEN LEGENDS

Flip the details

Answer in your head first, then tap to check.

TAP TO REVEAL

Who was the master of suspense?

Alfred Hitchcock — the British director who defined the thriller, from The 39 Steps to Psycho.

TAP TO REVEAL

Who was the first James Bond on film?

Sean Connery — the Scottish actor who made 007’s screen image in the 1960s.

TAP TO REVEAL

What is the panto dame?

In pantomime — the Christmas theatre tradition — the dame is a comic older woman played, by custom, by a man.

TAP TO REVEAL

What is the National Eisteddfod?

Wales’s great festival of music, poetry and the Welsh language — competition and celebration in one.

STEP 4 · QUICKFIRE RECALL

True or false — no thinking time allowed

STEP 5 · MASTERY CHECK

Six real questions on this topic

Score 5 or 6 and this topic is marked mastered on your path. Anything less: revisit the block you missed and retake.

Question 1 of 60 answered · 0 correct
Question 1 · Chapter 4: Modern Society
The Beatles, one of the most influential bands of the 1960s, came from which English city?
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all came from Liverpool, where the band formed before finding worldwide fame. The Beatles were at the heart of the 'Swinging Sixties', alongside groups such as the Rolling Stones, in a decade when many social laws were liberalised.
Question 2 · Chapter 4: Modern Society
George Frideric Handel, composer of Messiah, was born in which country before settling in Britain and becoming a British citizen?
Handel was born in Germany, settled in London and became a British citizen in 1727.
Question 3 · Chapter 4: Modern Society
London's famous theatre district, home to many long-running musicals and plays, is commonly known by what name?
London's West End is world-famous for its theatres, clustered around streets such as Shaftesbury Avenue and Drury Lane. The district is often called Theatreland.
Question 4 · Chapter 4: Modern Society
Every August, the world's largest performing arts festival, the Fringe, takes place in Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe fills venues across the Scottish capital each August with thousands of theatre, comedy and music shows.
Question 5 · Chapter 5: Government, Law & Your Role
Which TWO of these statements about the TV licence are correct?
Choose TWO answers — select both to see the result
You need a TV licence to watch or record television as it is broadcast — live TV on any channel or service, on any device, including a phone — and the licence fee mainly funds the BBC's television, radio and online services. Watching a film later on a streaming service does not by itself require a licence, and the fee does not provide free televisions for pensioners.
Question 6 · Chapter 4: Modern Society
Which TWO of these are films in the James Bond series?
Choose TWO answers — select both to see the result
Dr. No, released in 1962, was the first James Bond film, introducing Sean Connery as Bond, and Goldfinger is another film from the same series. Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean's epic about T. E. Lawrence in the First World War, and Chariots of Fire tells the true story of British athletes at the 1924 Paris Olympics — neither is a Bond film.

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STEP 6 · TEACH IT BACK

Say it in your own words

Explain how the BBC is funded, and name one thing it is famous for around the world. Say it out loud or write it down — then compare.

Reveal a model answer

The BBC is funded mainly by the television licence fee, paid by households — which is why its channels carry no advertising. It is famous worldwide for the World Service, for nature programmes presented by David Attenborough, and for series from Doctor Who to the Shipping Forecast’s quiet nightly ritual on Radio 4.

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