- •Сборник текстов для чтения, перевода и реферирования
- •Введение
- •Part I. Texts for reading
- •1.1. Superhero
- •1. 2. Don’t miss concert in conservatoire
- •1. 3. Information for visitors of the national gallery in london
- •1. 4. Weekly rep
- •1. 5. British tv
- •1. 6. Folk music
- •1. 7. Comic books
- •1. 8. How a hit song is written
- •1. 9. A london pantomime
- •1. 10. Abstract art
- •1. 11. Patricia kaas
- •1. 12. My favourite ballet
- •1. 13. Disneyland park
- •1. 14. Do you like music?
- •1. 15. Egyptian arts
- •1. 16. Freddie mercury
- •1. 17. Horror films
- •1. 18. Interview with a musician
- •1. 19. Tom hanks
- •1. 20. Jazz – a new era in music
- •1. 21. London’s museums
- •1. 22. Music awards
- •1. 23. Progressive rock
- •1. 24. Hippies and skinheads
- •1. 25. Rock music
- •1.26. Andersen. Traveller and theatre lover
- •1.27. Henry wood promenade concerts
- •1.28. Holding meetings
- •1.29. Punk rock is 30 years old
- •1.30. The guitar
- •1.31. Services for school. The national gallery, london
- •1.32. The wallace collection
- •1.33. Clowning
- •1.34. Music and musicians. Punk.
- •1.35. Theatre superstitions
- •1.36. Reggae
- •1.37. The british museum
- •1.38. The american greats
- •1.39. Summer camps in the united states
- •1.40. Compositions by bach’s second son performed in moscow
- •1.41. The russian museum
- •1.42. Rachmaninov
- •1.43. Gainsborough and music
- •1.44. Britain's unique puppet theatre
- •1.45. “Cats”
- •1.46. "The picture of dorian gray"
- •1.47. Lord of the rings
- •1.48. Benjamin britten
- •1. 49. Al pacino
- •1. 50. Can you think of a day without music?
- •1. 51. Chicago bluesman comes to moscow
- •1. 52. The globe theatre
- •1. 53. Chopin in britain
- •1. 54. Covent garden
- •1. 55. Diana ross
- •1. 56. "Oklahoma!"
- •1.57. Tarkovsky: a new look
- •Part II. Texts for rendering
- •2. 1. A miracle on the stage
- •2. 2. ‘’ Beauty and the beast'’ (1946)
- •2. 4. Valentin serov
- •2.5. Blockbuster films
- •2 .6. Charlie chaplin – early years
- •2. 7. English on the stage
- •2. 8. Harry porter
- •2. 9. Hippies
- •2. 10. Hollywood
- •2. 11. Kevin costner
- •12. Leonardo DiCaprio
- •2. 13. Libraries
- •2. 14. Mozart
- •2.15. Madam tussaud's
- •2. 16. Niccolo paganini - virtuoso or devil?
- •2.17. Russian winter in london
- •2.18. The birth of the "seventh art"
- •2.19. The little tramp
- •2. 20. Tretyakov gallery
- •2. 21. Television in modern life
- •2. 22. Types of music
- •2. 23. Walt disney's world
- •2. 43. Young musician of the year
- •Оглавление
- •Progressive rock...................................................................................................................................
- •The american greats............................................................................................................................
- •Summer camps in the united states.............................................................................................
2. 9. Hippies
Read the text and say what hippies rebelled against.
Hippies were young people, mainly from the middle classes, who rebelled (протестовали) against society in the sixties and early seventies.
So what did they do? They ‘dropped out". They left their comfortable middle-class homes and formed communes. These were often in the countryside, and there they used to grow vegetables and keep farm animals. They went to open-air pop concerts, where some of them danced naked (обнаженные) and took drugs. They went on protest marches against war, particularly the war in Vietnam.
They were against many things: materialism in society, the boring routine of nine-to-five jobs, ordinary family life, and war. Their slogan was "Make love, not war".
This lifestyle really shocked their parents. However, it was not only their lifestyle that shocked, their appearance did too. Both boys and girls had very long hair, often with flowers in it. They used to wear flared (расклешенные) trousers or long skirts and sometimes went barefoot (босиком).
. Today most hippies are hippies no longer. They live middle-class lives and worry about their children and paying the bills!
Exercise
Tell about the way of life and ideas of hippies.
2. 10. Hollywood
Read the text and learn some facts about the history of Hollywood. What two meanings does the word Hollywood have?
To many people, the word Hollywood has two meanings. Hollywood is an area in Los Angeles. Hollywood is also the American movie industry.
Hollywood was just farmland at the beginning of this century. Early American movies were made in other places; for example, in New York and Chicago.
In 1917 a director was making a movie in Chicago. Because the weather was cold he could not finish the movie. He took a trip to southern California, and there he found just the weather and scenery he needed to finish the movie The director realized that southern California was the perfect place for making movies. The next year his company built a studio in Hollywood. Other companies followed. Since that time nearly all important American movie studios had moved to H.
The next thirty years were Hollywood's greatest years. Thousand of movies were made, most by a few large and powerful studios. Directors, actors, and writers worked for these studios. They have made some movies that today are considered great art. Hollywood, the area in Los Angeles, has also reached its high point in these years. Many famous movie stars lived in Hollywood.
Today, Hollywood has changed. More movies are made outside of Hollywood. Many studios have moved. The movie stars have also moved to areas like Beverly Hills and Malibu.
But visitors to Hollywood today can go to the famous Chinese Theater and see the footprints and autographs of movie stars. They can go down the Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard, and see th golden stars in the sidewalk.
Exercise
Why did Hollywood become the center of movie industry? What has changed since that time?