- •Method guide on module I
- •Introduction
- •Reading and speaking
- •Thematic vocabulary
- •1. The music may be
- •3. Musicians
- •4. Musical Instruments
- •5. Concert
- •6. Voices. Songs and tunes.
- •Task 1.4. Music Word Search. Find and circle the words from the box in the grid and discover a hidden word.
- •1. Types of Musical Instruments
- •Before the concert starts...
- •Musical instruments
- •What is the layout of the orchestra?
- •The girl from ipanema
- •Understanding Music
- •What is Classical Music?
- •Music in the Middle Ages (400-1400)
- •Renaissance music (1400-1600)
- •Baroque Music (and sometimes Rococo) (1600-1750)
- •The Classical Period (1750-1820)
- •The Romantic Period (1820-1900)
- •20Th Century Classical Music
- •The Greatest Composer Ever
- •Cakewalk
- •1. Agree or disagree with the statements given below.
- •2. Summarize the following in one or two sentences.
- •3. Comment upon the following problem.
- •Great genius of jazz
- •The Power of Music
- •Music Heals
- •There's Music in Our Speech
- •Franz Joseph Haydn
- •George Frederick Handel
- •Sergei Rachmaninov
- •Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- •Gustav Mahler
- •Giuseppe Verdi
- •Johannes Brahms
- •F rederic Chopin
- •R obert Schumann
- •Franz Schubert
- •R ichard Wagner
- •Ludwig van Beethoven
- •W olfgang Amadeus Mozart
- •Johann Sebastian Bach
- •Laboratory work listening tasks
- •An interview with a Hollywood star
- •Are these statements about Liza Minnelli, the singer and actor, true or false?
- •2 Listen to part one of the interview (Track 4.5). Correct the false statements in exercise 1. Answer the questions.
- •Listen to part two (Track 4.6). Complete the interviewer's questions.
- •4 Listen to part three (Track 4.7).
- •5 Try to remember the words from the interview.
- •1 Which two reasons does Andy give for not wanting to be famous?
- •2 Which two examples does he give of a more gratifying kind of fame?
- •3 Complete these extracts with the expressions Andy used (from exercise 2). Then listen and check.
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
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Listen to part two (Track 4.6). Complete the interviewer's questions.
Did it to you?
I think yours , though, wasn't it?
How all of that?
So you haven't over it?
What are Liza Minnelli's answers to the questions? How does she explain the fact that all the guests at the wedding were famous? What did Elton John say about David?
4 Listen to part three (Track 4.7).
How does Liza feel when she talks about ... ?
earning her own living in New York
her mother and father
the interviewer getting into trouble at school
the film Cabaret
Marisa Berenson
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour...
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
It isn't that long a stay
Life is a cabaret old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret.
Language work
5 Try to remember the words from the interview.
1. ... the problems which ___________ her mother... .
2. ... she was looking for a British audience.
3. The world ... is like the inside ____.
It and .
... you know Elton ... he was just ____.
Was it always expected that you would ?
You clearly a live audience... .
What do you think?
What is name dropping? Why does Liza Minnelli mention so many famous names?
Is she a typical Hollywood star? Why/Why not?
Final note
Liza Minnelli and David Gest separated after sixteen months.
TASK 2
Would you like to be famous? (Track18)
1 Andy was asked if he would like to be famous and what he thought the advantages and disadvantages would be. He was also asked if he'd ever fantasized about being famous for anything in particular. Listen to Andy talking and answer the questions.
1 Which two reasons does Andy give for not wanting to be famous?
a He would end up feeling desperate to get on television.
b He would hate it when people he didn't know talked to him in the street.
c He wouldn't like people to recognize him.
d He would worry about not getting enough media attention.
2 Which two examples does he give of a more gratifying kind of fame?
a Being remembered for doing something socially valuable.
b Being immediately recognized for a significant medical discovery.
c Writing some wonderfully novel articles for a newspaper.
d Being a guest on cultural TV programmes.
2 Match the expressions that Andy uses with the definitions.
1 an end in itself |
a want something very much |
2 bump into someone |
b socialize with (famous people) |
3 hanker after |
c thinking hard about something, so unaware of my surroundings |
4 it takes all sorts to make a world |
d I can hardly imagine or accept an idea |
5 lost in my own thoughts |
e meet someone unexpectedly |
6 rub shoulders with |
f something that is considered important in its own right
|
7 the mind boggles |
g whatever (used for emphasis) |
8 the what on earth |
h people are all different from one another |