She plays the piano very well, but she doesn’t read music. She’s got a good ear. She can pick out any tune on the piano. She doesn’t have to practice much at all. She’s a natural. She can play by ear.
He’s very musical. He wrote an arrangement of (arranged) a Bach symphony for the band. You can play a tune on an instrument or you can whistle or hum. You can make music in lots of ways. I’ve some new chords on the guitar I have to practice my scales, but it’s boring.
B. Fill in the words in bold type from the text above in the description of
1. Vanessa started ____ the violin since her very first months, and by the age of 3 she could ____ music. She liked ____ her scales.
2. At seven, never having had a violin lesson, Mozart could ____ any tune on the violin. He ____ the first of his symphonies in 1765.
17. Look at the photos (pictures) and speak about your impressions on visiting a theatre (cinema, concert, exhibition). What role does music (theatre, cinema) play in your life? For ideas:
| Educates my feelings, help appreciate the beauty, enrich our knowledge, develops my artistic taste, widen our outlook, to give anything new, to see the beauty around us, to have a pernicious influence, to be an intellectual exercise, to be an emotional experience, to understand human souls, cultivates some ideas, entertain, to inspire |
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Prepare your own questionnaire to interview a pop star. Run your interview and get ready to make a report summing up the answers.
19. Reading: pleasure or work. Go through the interview that follows. Analyze it and give comments on what is reading for them and how they feel about the world of literature.
Sheila M: “I like to be constantly in touch with the news. That’s why I prefer reading different types of newspapers. The popular papers are less in size, with many pictures, big headlines and short articles. The quality papers provide me with more serious articles and more detailed information.”
Mark S: “As for me I like reading novels, adventure stories and other books for fun. Recreational reading helps me understand people, takes on journeys to unknown parts of the world.”
Frank T: “As soon as I’ve been reading a book for a bit, I fall asleep. I always start off with the best intentions, but after a few pages my eye lids come down and I’m snoozing.
Nick P: “I take a great interest in reading scientific magazines. I try not to miss my chance to buy a special limited edition of Engineering Tomorrow. It is printed monthly. It gives me factual material about microelectronics, computing and electrical engineering.
