- •Предисловие
- •Active vocabulary
- •Person’s character
- •My family
- •Revision
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •The House
- •Dialogue a
- •Dialogue b
- •My home
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •A student’s day
- •My working day (2)
- •In the morning
- •In the afternoon
- •In the evening
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •At the University
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •Yekaterinburg
- •City problems
- •Active vocabulary
- •Music in our live
- •Dialogue “Rock and pop music”
- •Painting
- •Street art
- •Home Reading The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- •Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
- •Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- •Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- •Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- •Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- •Colossus of Rhodes
- •Lighthouse of Alexandria
- •Active vocabulary
- •Travelling
- •Booking air tickets (Dialogue I)
- •Booking air tickets (Dialogue II)
- •Home Reading
- •Active vocabulary
- •Geography of Great Britain
- •British political system
- •Northern Ireland
- •Home Reading Robin Hood
- •Active vocabulary
- •Holidays in Great Britain and usa Make Love, Not War
- •The Winter is Past
- •Mothering Sunday in England
- •Mother’s Day in America
- •Halloween
- •Home reading
- •English around the world
- •Learning a Foreign Language
- •Литература
Active vocabulary
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art
искусство
fine art
изобразительное искусство
painting
живопись
create
создавать
to involve
вовлекать
to define
очерчивать границы
pattern
образец, модель, рисунок
noise
шум
media
растворитель (красок)
to record
записывать
to listen to
слушать
distinction
отличительная особенность
to invent
изобретать
to act
играть (роль)
to exist
существовать, жить
band
ансамбль
jazz
джаз
opera
опера
ballet
балет
symphony
симфонический
instrument
инструмент
expression
выражение
texture
ткань, структура
volume
звук
landscape
пейзаж
icon painting
иконопись
element
элемент
tone
тон
fresco
фреска, фресковая живопись
contrast
контраст, оттенок
narrative
повесть, рассказ
appearance
появление
rhyme
рифма
essay
очерк
tragedy
трагедия
comedy
комедия
rhythm
ритм
lyric
лирический
gallery
галерея
costume
костюм
lighting
освещение
treatment
отношение
imagination
воображение
fiction
вымысел
to broadcast
передавать по радио
to describe
описывать
diary
дневник
box office
билетная касса(театр.)
Task 1. Read and translate the text, be ready to retell.
Music in our live
Music is one of the oldest arts. People probably started singing as soon as language developed. Many ancient peoples, including the Egyptians, Chinese, Babylonians, and the other people of India, used music in religious ceremonies. The first written music dates from about 2500 B.C. |
Nowadays music takes many forms around the world. There are two chief kinds of music: classical and popular. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, and ballets. Popular music includes country music, folk music, jazz, rock music, etc.
Music plays a major role in other arts. Opera combines singing and other drama. Ballet and other form of dancing need music to help dancers. Film and TV dramas use music to set mood and emphasize the action.
Music plays an important part in cultures and social activities. Nearly all peoples use music in the religious service to create a state of mystery and awe, a feeling of distance from the daily world. Many people perform music for their own satisfaction. Singing in a choir or playing a musical instrument in a band can be very enjoyable. Music provides people with a way to express their feelings.
Nowadays there exist lots of musical currents and directions which are represented by different groups and solo singers. Let's mention some of the most famous ones.
Pop music - area of musical art having commercial character with mass media and poetic language, entertainment, supposing ease of recognition. It has arisen in the 19th century as reaction to the complicated forms of "serious" music. Intensive development has received from the beginning of the 20th centuries. It is distinguished by traditional "old" popular music and the "new" pop.
Blues - a genre of the Afro-American musical folklore and a jazz carrying melancholy and despondency. It formed in the beginning of the 20th century. The blues tradition is submitted practically in all basic jazz styles. The blues reflects deeply personal experiences sated with dramatic nature and an internal conflict, contains also elements of humor, irony, social satire.
In the middle of 80s in Chicago appeared a new kind of dancing music - house music. Now it seems usual and habitual, however then it was really extraordinary. This music was created for dances and played by new electro-musical instruments. The Chicago DJs for the first time tried to mix singles of group Kraftwerk with sound devices giving cardinally new sounds. House music has roots coming of disco. In a word – music for happiness. The structure of a classical house is rather simple and the tempo isn’t so fast. House tracks, as a rule, are filled with bright and beautiful passages, major chords and simple, but remembered melodies.
Rock-n-Roll - the earliest form of modern pop. It appeared in the middle of 1950 in the musical attitude representing the simplified variant of a rhythm-and-blues with elements of country music. For rock-and-roll as a whole the structural basis, sounding of several electro guitars, a piano, saxophone, brief melodic phrases, elementary enough text, a strongly pronounced dancing basis is characteristic. Performers of rock-and-roll were white musicians (Elvis Presley, Bill Hejli, Whether Jerry Lewis), as well as black ones (Chuck Berry). As the pair dance which received wide popularity in 1950s it differs with extreme expressionism, choreographic supports and deliberate negligence in relation to partner.
Task 2. Answer the questions about music:
1. What is music? 2. What is the most traditional way to listen to music? 3. What is Karaoke? 4. What are the main musical genres? 5. What role does music play in other arts? 6. What do you prefer: ballet or opera? Why? 7. If you have a chance to visit a famous concert, what composer will you choose? 8. Is there any difference between modern musical styles and classical music?
Task 3. Talk on one of these topics: 1. Rock and pop music. 2. Music in Your life. 3. Different Kinds of Music |
Task 3. Memorize and dramatize the dialogue; act out a similar dialogue.