- •Зміст курсу
- •Методичнi рекомендацiї з пiдготовки до практичних занять
- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •Coming up! movies!!! theatre!!! music!!! sport!!! stay with us!
- •Vocabulary study
- •2. Write a film review.
- •3. Discuss the points:
- •Vocabulary study. Words in context
- •Introductory text
- •Exercises
- •Dialogues 1
- •Dialogues 2
- •1. Mrs Madigan Goes to the Theatre
- •2. (That evening. Mrs. Magan has just come into the theatre.)
- •3. Sam and Cathy are planning their evening.
- •Dialogues 3
- •Dialogue 1 At the Theatre
- •Dialogue 2
- •Dialogue 3 After the performance
- •Theatre in the usa
- •The Theatre in Great Britain and the usa
- •Vocabulare study. Words in context
- •Rock and roll
- •Just for fun Quite an Excuse
- •Make up dialogues as if after attending a concert. The following phrases might help:
- •The King of Rock and Roll
- •Scott Joplin
- •3. Discuss the following:
- •4. Write a fan letter to someone who you admire. Conversation Questions
- •Vocabulary study
- •A Look at the Intriguing History of Snowboarding
- •Dialogue
- •Discussion sport and money
- •1. Match these sportsmen and sportswomen to their sports:
- •2. Read this father's view and decide which sport he is talking about. Can his criticism apply to sports in general?
- •Immoral earnings?
- •3. Discuss the following:
- •4. Read this text and underline all the expressions with 'worth':
- •5. Discussion:
- •6. More issues:
- •Conversation Questions
Make up dialogues as if after attending a concert. The following phrases might help:
to be warmly received by the public
to take the house by storm
to have a successful run
to burst out into applause
the singer gave two encores
curtain call followed curtain fall
the concert (show, performance, etc.) was so brilliant / thrilling / boring / disappointing that
it ran to a full house
it ran to an empty house
I felt like walking out
there was a storm of applause
2. Prepare a report about your favourite musician. The texts below may serve as examples.
The King of Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley came from a very poor family. He was born on 8 January 1935 in Mississippi.
Elvis loved music. He went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir. When he was 13, his mother bought him a guitar. In the same year Elvis and his family left Mississippi for Memphis, Tennessee.
One day in 1954 he went to a recording studio called Sun Records. He wanted to make a record for his mother's birthday. The secretary at the studio heard Elvis and she told her boss, Sam Phillips.
Elvis was Sam Phillips's dream - "a white boy with a black voice".
Phillips became Elvis's manager and Elvis made his first single - That's All Right, Mama. When the disc jockeys played it on their studio stations, American teenagers went wild. Many American parents didn't like Elvis. He was too sexy.
In 1955, Elvis appeared on TV in New York. The following year he went to Hollywood and made his first film Love Me Tender. In the next two years he had many hit records - Blue Suede Shoes, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook up, Teddy Bear.
In 1958, Elvis joined the American army and went to Germany. When he returned to the United States in the early 1960s, pop was not the same. British groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were the new stars.
Elvis was a millionaire, but he was a very lonely man. In his last years he became fat and depressed. He died of a heart attack on 16 August 1977 in his mansion. But for his millions of fans, Elvis is still the King.
Scott Joplin
Scott was born in Texas in 1868, into a poor but musical black family. His father, who was a freed slave, played the violin, and his mother played the banjo and sang. Scott played the violin and bugle but his favourite instrument was his neighbour's piano. His father worked extra hours to buy him a battered old grand piano, and soon Scott was playing by ear negro tunes, blues, and spirituals. Music flowed naturally from his fingers, and he quickly became the talk of the town.
Scott didn't learn to read music until he was 11, when an old German music teacher spotted his talent and gave him free, formal piano lessons. He learned to play the works of such composers as Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as his improvised music. Thus when he started to write music, his tunes were a wonderful mixture of classical European and African beat. This unique style was known as Ragtime, and was played everywhere in the USA in the early 1900s by both black and white musicians.
In 1882, when Scott was 14, his mother died and he left home to seek his fortune in St. Louis. In the 1880s, St. Louis was noisy and bustling with life. The waterfront of the Mississippi River was full of gangsters, gamblers, and sailors. The sound of music was everywhere - black, white and mixed. The hot steamy nights were filled with blues, working songs, banjos. Scott was soon playing Ragtime piano in cheap bars on the waterfront. This was a rough, tough area of the city where arguments over girls, whisky, and money were settled with fists and guns. Scott grew up very fast and his musical talent continued to develop. All in all he wrote about 50 piano rags.
Scott Joplin died in 1917. Today he is the undisputed King of Ragtime, thanks to his natural ability, his unusual musical education and the popularity of his most famous composition - The Entertainer.