Exercises:

№ 1. Read and translate the sentences. Use them in your own dialogues.

1. We shall have to wait in a line.

2. Next week there will be a screen version of Franko’s novel” The stolen happiness” in the cinema “ Rus’”.

3. When does the second performance start? It starts at 1 o’clock.

4. Do you know who the scriptwriter of this feature film is?

5. Recentlty I have seen the advertisement of the film “ Millennium”.

6. The mystery film “X-files” came out long ago, but it appeals to me very much.

7. I think this film is worth seeing.Let’s buy tickets for Friday.

8. What is the cast of the film? Sadra Bullock plays the leading role.

9. What’s the film like? It is based on real life. I’m sure, you’ll like it.

10. How did you like the film? It made a great impression on me.

Exercise №2. Translate Ukrainian sentences into English:

1.Ти бачила екранізацію роману Конан Дойла „ Шерлок Холмс”?

2.Мені дуже подобаються фільми з участю Чапліна. Вони цікаві та смішні.

3.Тепер на телебаченні все більше розважальних та менше освітніх та пізнавальних програм.

4.Він коли-небудь бачив фільми з участю голлівудської зірки Демі Мур?

5.Я не любитель ходити в кіно, але коли фільм показують вперше, то завжди ходжу.

6.Хто головний герой цього фільму? Головна героїня- дівчина, яка страждає на невиліковну хворобу та приречена на смерть.

7.Мій брат отримує велике задоволення від перегляду документальних фільмів каналу „ Діскавері”.

8.Цей широкоекранний фільм дуже хвилюючий та виховний водночас.

Exercise №3. Compose your own dialogues with the following words and phrases and be ready to act them out:

1) to buy tickets, 5^th row, to like, horror films,to stay at home, amusing,to have fun, frightening.

2) to be on , in the cinema, to consult the newspapers, a splendid idea,a French film, an American film,to think of the film, acting, superb, action, to develop slowly, to agree,excellent, camera work, plot, interesting.

СHAIKOVSKY

( 1840-1893)

To begin with, it will be relevant to say that there are different aspects of art: cinema, theatre,literature,painting and music. Each educated person must be aware of all of them.

There is no doubt that we get in touch with music more frequently than with any other aspect of art.We can hear music everywhere: sitting on the sofa on TV, listening to the radio,driving a car and even in the café.

It’s common knowledge that there are various kinds of music.Classical music, jazz,rock and pop- music are only some of its kinds.

Today we’ll focus our attention on a very outstanding personality,the representative of Russian classical music- Petro Chaikovsky.

He was born in the Urals. His father was a mining engineer by profession.When in childhood,Chaikovsky liked music, but he didn’t want to connect his life with it.His dream was to become a lawyer.He had already started studying law, when at the age of 21 he made up his mind to get involved in music- he entered the conservatoire at St. Petersburg.After graduating from the conservatoire, he was made a professor at the Moscow Conservatoire.At that time Chaikovsky wrote many pieces of music, as well as taught much.

Petro Chaikovsky wrote music of various kinds- ballets, operas, songs, symphonies and piano concerts.

There is hardly a person who didn’t hear his “ Swan Lake”. This composition is well known among both adults and children.It helps to detach yourself from problems, contributes to good mood.

Almost everybody knows his “ Nutcracker Suite”, “ Dance with the Sugar Plum Fairy”, “Waltz of Flowers”.

Apart from the mentioned compositions, we can call the ballet “ Sleeping Beauty”, the overture “Romeo and Juliet, operas “Eugene Onegin”, “Mazzeppa”,” The Queen of Spades” and the symphony “Pathetique”.

Chaikovsky produced not only gay music, some of his works are sad. But most of his compositions are rather tuneful.

It’s a very suprising fact , that at the beginning of the career, his compositions were failures.And now, Chaikovsky’s music remains extant: it is being played all around the world.Everyone finds his music charming and valuable.

Learn unfamiliar words:

to be aware- бути обізнаним

frequently- часто

mining engineer- гірничий інженер

lawyer- адвокат

to make up one’s mind to do smth-вирішити, наважитися зробити щось

to get involved- займатися

to detach oneself from- відволікатися

to contribute-сприяти

tuneful- мелодійний

failure- невдача

extant-існуючий,збережений

“Nutckracker Suite”-„ Лускунчик”

“ Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”- „ Танець феї драже”

Answer the following questions:

1. What aspects of art can you enumerate?

2. Where do we get in touch with music and how often?

3. Is Petro Chaikovsky a Russian or Ukrainian composer?

4. What was his father?

5. Why Chaikovsky didn’t think of connecting his life with music?

6. When did he decide to take up music as his career?

7. Where did he study?

8. What kinds of music did Chaikovsky write?

9. Which composition do you think is the most popular? Why?

10. What operas did he produce? Have you ever heard any?

11. How can you characterize Chaikovsky’s music?

Exercise №1. Translate the sentences into English :

1. Чайковський був першим російським композитором, який здобув всесвітню популярність.

2. Саме він змінив мистецтво балету.

3. Виразну мову танцю ми можемо спостерігати в „ Сплячій красуні” та „ Лебединому озері”.

4. Твори Чайковського включають 10 опер,3 балети, 6 симфоній,4 концерти для фортепіано, романси, пісні та інструментальні твори.

5. Він був знаменитим як диригент,викладач та критик.

Exercise №2. Translate the following sentences with the words in brackets.

1.Я надаю перевагу симфонічній музиці перед камерною.

( symphonic- симфонічна, chamber-камерна ).

2.Гра акомпаніатора на фортепіано була чудовою.( accompanist-акомпаніатор).

3.Ти вмієш грати на флейті чи на кларнеті? Ні, я граю на скрипці.

( flute-флейта, clarinet-кларнет, fiddle- скрипка).

4. Цей піаніст отримав друге місце на конкурсі.( to win the second

prize- отримати друге місце).

5.Наступного тижня Таїсія Повалій дасть свій сольний концерт.

( to give a recital- дати сольний концерт).

Exercise №3. Answer in one word.

How do we call a person who plays:

1. the guitar;

2. the accordion;

3. the violin;

4. the harp;

5. the piano;

6. the flute;

7. the organ;

8. the mandoline;

9. the balalaika;

10. the clarinet;

Exercise №4. Explain the meaning of the following words in English:

composer, recital,conductor,accompanist,overture,polonaise,jury,opera;

Exercise №5. Make up your own dialogues on the topic

CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855)

Charlotte Bronte was the daughter of the curate. Her mother died in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son.Four of the daughters were sent to a boarding- school.In 1831-32 Charlotte Bronte stayed at another boarding – school, from which she returned with a teacher’s licence.She became a governess and in 1842 went with her sister Emily to study the French language at a school in Brussels, where she was employed as a teacher of English.

Charlotte’s first novel was “The Professor”. It wasn’t published until 1857, after her death. Her second novel “ Jane Eyre” was published in 1847 achieved success.In 1848 her brother died till the end of the same year her sisters Emily and Ann died because of tuberculosis.Charlotte alone survived of the six children.She went on writing.She produced “ Shirley” and “ Villete” despite her sorrows.All her works appeared under the pen- name of Currer Bell.

“Jane Eyre” was Charlotte Bronte’s most popular novel.There is an atmosphere of harsh realism about the pictures of everyday life.

Her novels are marked by psychological realism as well. In her novel “ Shirley” she managed to describe an important stage in provincial English middle-class life.

Charlotte Bronte’s last work is “Emma”, a fragment of which was published after her death.

She married in 1854 and died in 1855 at the age of 39.