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Test.
Theme: Courts and trials.
Translate the words and phrases.
1) Criminal case
2) Murder
3) Robbery
4) Witness
5) Shoplifting
6) To bring in a verdict of guilty
7) A jail sentence
8) Sent somebody to the penitentiary
9) Parole
10) To be on probation
11) Jury
12) The dock
13) The public gallery
14) Speeding
15) Misdemeanor
Translate the sentences.
1) Crime violates the law.
2) A criminal case begins when a person goes to court and files a complaint that another person has committed an offence.
3) He can plead guilty.
4) He can plead not guilty.
5) Both, the prosecution and the defence, try to convince the jury.
Write the words or phrases that can be associated with the given word.
1)accused_____________________________________________________
2)kidnapping___________________________________________________
3)steal________________________________________________________
4)attorney_____________________________________________________
5)penalty______________________________________________________
MAN AND MUSIC
Key words: Describing Music.
Catchy – легко воспринимаемый
Dramatic – впечатляющий
Exciting – волнующий
Haunting – навязчивый
Lively – энергичный
Monotonous – монотонный
Moving – трогательный
Romantic – романтичный
Sad – грустный
Scary – жуткий
Sentimental – сентиментальный
Sinister – зловещий
Soothing – успокаивающий
Soppy – слащавый
Tear-jerking – жалобный
Tedious – нудный
Terrifying – пугающий
Thoughtful – содержательный
Discuss following statements.
1) The music of young generation is really catchy but one forgets it also easily.
2) Only the classical music can be dramatic.
3) Women like sentimental music, men don’t prefer something moving.
4) Old songs cannot be exciting.
5) Music in the films can remain in one’s memory more that the film itself.
Match the questions (1-4) with their meanings (a-d).
1) Don’t you like the Stones?
2) Do you think their concerts are good?
3) Do you like the Stones?
4) Don’t you think their concerts are good?
a) Are the Stones one of your favourite groups?
b) I like the Stones, don’t you?
c) Are their concerts any good?
d) Their concerts are great, aren’t they?
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your tastes in music. Agree or disagree with your partner.
Example.
A: I think U2 are really great!
B: Do you? If you ask me, they’re ancient. I like rap groups.
A: I’m not keen on rap music.
B: Don’t you like Eminem?
A: No, not really.
Use the key words and give an example of different types of music. You can name the singer or the group.
Catchy music – Eminem
Dramatic – Celine Dion etc.
5. How do you understand this quote?
“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable” Leonard Bernstein, American composer.
Complete the adjectives in the text. The first and last letters are given.
The music from the film Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is really d__________c. The main theme, Pelagia’s song, is h_____________g and s_____d. Some of the music is quite r___________c but it is not at all s_____y or s_________________l. One of the best pieces is the t_______________l mandolin solo played by Corelli when Pelagia realizes that she is falling in love with him. The tragic parts of the story are also reflected in the music with drums played in a s______y and s_______r tone. Finally, there are lighter moments, especially the operatic singing of the Italian soldiers which is l______y and quite c______y.
UNDERSTANDING MUSIC
If we were asked to explain the purpose of music, our immediate reply might be “to give pleasure”. That would not be far from the truth, but there are other considerations.
We might also define music as “expression in sound”, or “the expression of thought and feeling in an aesthetic form”, and still not arrive at an understanding of its true purpose. We do know, however, even if we are not fully conscious of it, that music is a part of living, that it has the power to awaken in us sensations and emotions of a spiritual kind.
Listening to music can be an emotional experience or an intellectual exercise. If we succeed in blending the two, without excess in either case, we are on the road to gaining the ultimate pleasure from music. Having mastered the gift of listening to, say, a Haydn symphony, the ear and mind should be ready to admit Mozart, then to absorb Beethoven then Brahms. After that, the pathway to the works of later composers will be found to be less bramblestrewn than we at first imagined.
(Практический курс английского языка, с.138).
