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hear the Angel of Music. When Christine meets Raoul, he also enjoys her father’s many stories.

Later, when Daaй’s father is dying, he tells Christine that when he dies he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine cries for her father endlessly.

After several years of Christine’s hard work, she is given a

she gets there, she begins hearing a voice (голос) which sings to

her and speaks to her. She believes it must be the Angel of Music and asks him if he is. The Voice agrees and offers to teach her “a

Erik, a deformed man, a genius designer [dI zaIn´]лwho was one of the people who built the Opera house. кHe secretly made a

little bit of heaven’s music”. The Voice, however,о belongs to

home for himself in the catacombs deep down under the Opera

house. He is a real man but he doesn’t let people see him and he

makes people believe that he is the Opera “ghost”. He’s been

frightening the Opera management for many years and has been

when Christine asks him to let her go, he agrees, but only if she wears his ring and is faithful to him. Christine, for a time, can’t

decide who is better for her: Erik or Raoul. After Christine tells Raoul of ыErik, Raoul promises to take her away. They plan to

leave the next day, but as Christine feels sorry for Erik, she decidesВto sing for Erik one last time. They don’t know that Erik has been listening to their conversation.

The last night when Christine sings at the Opera house, Erik kidnaps her during the performance. He begs her to marry him but she doesn’t agree. Then Erik offers her a choice: say no, and he destroys the entire2 Opera house, or say yes and marry him.

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1 gala concert [«gA:l´ kÅns´t] гала« -концерт, торжественный, праздничный концерт; 2 the entire [In taI´] весь, целый

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Christine wants to say no but soon she realizes that Raoul, together with a man from Erik’s past known only as “The Persian”, have come to rescue her and have, instead, found themselves in a trap (ловушка). To save them and the people in the Opera house, Christine agrees to marry Erik and kisses him. Erik, who has never before in his life been kissed – not even by

his own mother – is full with emotion. He lets Christine go to marry Raoul. Erik and Christine cry together, and then she leaves. Three weeks later, a notice appears in a Paris newspaper stating that Erik is dead.

pianist. 3. Christine and Raoul were childhood friends. 4. Erik

lives under the building of the Opera house secretly. 5. Erik and

2. Who was the main character in many of her father’s stories?

3. How did Erik manage to build a house for himself under the Opera house?ш4. Why does Christine agree to take lessons from

the Voice? 5. Does anyone at the Opera house, except for Christine, everыsee Erik? 6. Why does Erik kidnap Christine during

the performance? 7. Who comes to rescue Christine? 8. Why doesВChristine agree to marry Erik? 9. What happens to Erik when Christine leaves him?

2d. Put the sentences in the correct order.

Model: 1–H.

A.Christine agrees to marry Erik and kisses him.

B.Christine and Raoul go away.

C.Christine and Raoul make friends.

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D. Christine hears about the Angel of Music from her father.

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He walked downhill to a river, and when he climbed up the other side there was a break in the trees. From here he could see

without hair, large eyes, like a lizard [ lIz´d] but ...лLevine knew about this small animal from its bones, but now he was looking at a real, living dinosaur!

3d. Imagine you are on an uninhabited island and have only these books. What would you read first? Second? Last? Explain your choice. (Use the Help box in ex. 2c.)

4. Write for a forum “I enjoy reading …” about your preferences in reading.

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Lesson 2. What kind of reader are you?

1a. Schools around the UK celebrate World Book Day (23 April) with special events to try and encourage students to pick up a book and get reading. The BBC invited school students to take part in the following questionnaire. Do the test to see what kind of reader you are.

a) Decide that you’ll never read that book. b) You wait for the movie version.

c) Whenыpeople are talking about it at a party you say you have already read it.

d)ВYou look up the review (обзор, рецензия) to see if it’s really any good or not.

e) You run out to your nearest bookshop to buy it. a best-seller – a book selling best at the moment

5. How many books are you reading at the moment?

a)I only read one at a time.

b)I’m reading mostly newspapers and magazines right now, as I don’t have time to get into a novel.

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books are interesting – you feel interested

reading is fascinating – it keeps you fascinated

2a. Work in groups. Ask your classmates what kind of readers they are.

2b. Report the results to the class. Is your class a reading class?

A book blurb is a short description on the back of a book

writer, a painter and a talented orator who is still quoted today. If

«1 Mole – крот, badger – барсук, toad – жаба; 2 apprentice

[´ prentIs] подмастерье

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