Music in our Life.

It’s difficult to speak about music in general, because it will either take a lot of time or just one sentence to explain our attitude. Music is an integral part of our life. We can’t spend a day without music. In the morning we prefer fast rhythmical music, it’s like a cup of coffee or a cool shower that encourages and revives us. We like to listen to music, to dance to music, even to do our homework to music. When we listen to our favourite music we forget about our problems, and the world around us becomes better, and we want to do something good for other people. Music ennobles us, makes us better and happier.

Music is varied because it reflects different human emotions. If we ask several people what kind of music they like, all of them will give different answers. Tastes differ. But the world of music is boundless and everybody can find there something that satisfies his tastes and demands. And all the people will agree that our world will be dull without music. We enjoy music because it influences our mood and imagination, reflects our inner state and character, arouses deep emotions and makes us think. It helps us to remove from tiredness and tension or find new strength, get new energy and optimism.

That’s why we can say that all kinds of music are popular with the public: classical and pop music, folk music and jazz, operas, musicals, orchestral performances, chamber music, rock and roll, heavy metal, rap, rock, hard rock, rave and so on.

Some people say, it is difficult to understand classical music. But we enjoy music of P.I. Chaikovsky, Bach, Mozart. Among contemporary composers we appreciate A. Lloyd Webber and his musicals and rock operas.

Nowadays it’s almost impossible to escape from music, even if we want to. It thunders out of every high-street shop, hisses horribly from other people’s stereos in public transport, and blasts out of open car windows.

II. Finish the sentences using given variants:

1. Music is

a) complicated art difficult to understand;

b) an integral part of our life;

c) one of the fine arts.

facts of life. Another reason is that the USA and Great Britain are world leaders in computer technologies, business organization and many other important fields. They create new notions and give them English names which are used later by all the world. Rock, jazz, computer, business, surfing – we cannot imagine our language without these words.

You may ask why it is English that became the most wide-spread and not Esperanto or any other artificial language. Language can not be mechanical because it describes life. It’s more like a living being than like a machine. It will always have rules and exceptions which make it beautiful and creative, strict and poetical at the same time. Each language keeps like a treasure all the history, art and culture of the nation that created it. That’s why people will never agree to use artificial language, it does not matter how convenient it could be.

The rise of English is a remarkable success story. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English did not exist. Today English is used by at least 750 million people, and barely half of those speak it as a mother tongue.

Some estimates have put that figure closer to one billion. Whatever the total, English at the end of the 20^th century is more widely spoken and written, than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the planet, the first truly global language.

The statistics of English are astonishing.

Three quarters of the world’s mail, and its telexes and cables, are in English. So are more than half of the world’s technical and scientific periodicals: it is the language of technology from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. English is the medium for 80 percent of the information stored in the world’s computers. Nearly half of all business deals in Europe are conducted in English. It is the language of sports and glamour: the official language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe Competition. English is the official voice of the air and the sea, and of Christianity: it is the ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches. Four of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBS, ABC, BBC) transmit in English to audiences that regularly exceed one hundred million.

New ideas in science, technology and medicine changes so quickly that it is impossible to translate everything into different languages. So most things are published in English, and if you want to keep up with the latest ideas in any subject you need English. More and more people also need English for studying at universities and colleges. Our country needs good specialists in many spheres of economy. Ukraine has relations with many countries. And if you want to

days her descendants are no longer directly involved. However, the spirit of Marie continues to live on, not least in the form of the last figure she made of herself eight years before her death. Her grandsons decided to move the exhibition to its present site in 1884. Over the years there have been several disasters which the exhibition has managed to survive.

Since then Madame Tussaud’s has continued to develop its attractions. In 1958, the London Planetarium was built on the old cinema cite. Today the most recently developed attractions are the “Spirit of London” time travel ride, spanning the history of Britain’s capital city from Elizabethan times to the present day.

Lesson 37.

Topic: Cultural Programme.

Active Vocabulary.

Attitude відношення

integral part невід’ємна частина

varied різноманітний

to reflect відображати

boundless безмежний

to satisfy задовольняти

to influence впливати

to arouse викликати

to remove позбавитися

musical мюзикл

to appeal подобатися

to appreciate високо цінувати

to escape уникнути, врятуватися від

to thunder гриміти

to hiss шипіти

to blast вириватися