Vocabulary:

to protect –

frontier–

chronicles –

remnants –

Cathedral of the Transfiguration –

public gardens –

arboreta –

freighter –

oil-refining –

highway –

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the geographical position of Kherson?

2. When was it founded and first mentioned in the chronicles?

3. What are the cities museums and theatres?

4. Is it a green city? Why do you think so?

5. What can you say about the population of the city?

Спеціальність: Культурологія

1. Put 10 questions to the text.

2. Make a vocabulary of the text (20-25 words). Tv against Theater

It is obvious that TV and cinema have much more advantages then theater. Of course among these types of entertaining theater was the first, it has been existed from ancient times, long before television and cinema, and was very popular.

But with the coming of cinema the situation had changed. Of course it is much more expensive to shoot a movie then to show a theater performance, but the expenses will be compensated, because a lot of people want to see the movie. The movie is realistic, there are a lot of live decorations and costumes and a lot of stunts, that all attracts people's attention much more then the theater. In a movie it is possible to show a long period of time, different people and different places. The main advantage of cinema is the reality of the representation, which is impossible in theater. And now cinema is very popular, especially among young people, because there are a lot of new technologies now to make a film full of exciting stunts and decorations. There are a lot of cinemas now, where you can go in the evening to watch some new movie. It is convenient and entertaining. Theater nowadays is the form of a cultural outing, but young people do that very seldom.

It is hard to say, what is more popular between TV and cinema. Almost all people have a TV set at home, where one can watch some show, series or movies. Besides TV is the means of informing people, there a many news programs on TV. But it is much more exciting to watch a thrilling film on a large screen in the cinema. So we can say that the cinema is as popular as TV.

And with the coming of new high technologies we have a new convenient form of entertaining – internet. We can download any film, series or show we like from the net and watch it any time we wish, so much times we wish and all that at home, not leaving some other things to do.

Спеціальність: Музичне мистецтво

1. Put 10 questions to the text.

2. Make a vocabulary of the text (20-25 words). Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."

Спеціальність: Образотворче мистецтво