Exercise 11. Fill the gaps with the appropriate word.

1. Do you play a musical _________________________?

2. A: Do you like _________________________ music?

B: Yes, very much.

A: Who’s your favourite _________________________?

B: It’s hard to say, but I love Bach.

3. I sang in a _________________________for years. We performed in churches all over the country.

4. Their new CD is __________________next week. I’m sure it’ll go to number ___________________.

5. Their first single was very popular, but they haven’t _________________________an album yet.

6. I think their _________________________album is brilliant, and much better than their last one.

Exercise 12. Now use the context and your own knowledge to fill the gaps with a suitable word.

1. He used to be conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic _________________________.

2. Robbie Williams was in a _____________ called Take That before he became a ________________ artist.

3. I think Hey Jude or I want to hold your hand is the Beatles’ biggest selling hit __________________ but Sergeant Pepper is probably their most famous ________________________. That or Abbey Road.

4. I haven’t been to the ________________________since I saw The Marriage of Figaro last year.

5. Keith Richard has been ________________________guitarist of the Rolling Stones for over 30 years.

6. Duke Ellington is one of the greatest ________________________ pianists ever.

7. Waterloo was one of Abba’s most famous hit ________________________.

8. Eric Clapton sings on his albums, but he first became famous as a ________________________.

9. Before he became a solo artist, Sting was the ________________________ singer with Police.

Exercise 13. Complete this story of Craig David’s early years.

Craig David was born and grew up in Southampton, on the south coast of England. As a teenager he used

to write his own (1) __________________ on a dictaphone, and his (2) __________________in music at that time ranged from Terence Trent D’Arby to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. His first (3) __________________ was Human, a version of the song that was a (4) __________________ for the Human League. After that David became better known, and his first album was (5) __________________ in summer 2000.

Exercise 14. Study three types of Conditional sentences.

Note: Conditional sentences may express real and unreal condition. They are introduced by the conjunctions: if, in case, provided, unless, suppose. Unless has a negative meaning.

Condition			Subordinate clause		Principal clause
I Real			If it looks like rain, If I have more time, If he is working on Friday,		we’ll stay at home. I’ll come over. he won’t be able to go with us.
			Present Indefinite/ Present Continuous		Will (Shall)		+ Inf.
Unreal	II Present / Future	If I were you, If I had more time, If you knew him better, If it were not raining,		I would go there myself. I would come over. you wouldn’t think so. I could go out.
		Past Indefinite/ Past Continuous		would could might		+ Inf.
	III Past	If you had gone there, If you had earned enough money last summer,		you would have seen him. we could have gone to the South.
		Past Perfect		would could might		+ have + Participle II