Thursday, March 24, 2011

key p. 80 - 83

p. 80
THE INTERVIEW
B)
1.- Use the Queen's Hall for a series of popular concerts
2.- Taking away the seats on the floor of the hall so that people could stand and walk around.
3.- Because it is an abbreviation of Promenade concerts.
4.- 2 months
5.- They have to queue during the day.
6.- They don't dresss up and they behave as if they weren't listening to music. There's an amazing level of concentration.
C)
1.- They changed the concert programme for that day and put in the Fauré requiem.
2.- He was going to conduct the Verdi Requiem later that season. He had been a friewnd of Diana's and wanted to dedicate the piece to her memory. But a week later he also died.
3.- After Solti's death, Colin conducted the Verdi Requiem and dedicated it to the memory of Diana and Solti.
4.- The title of a piece of music by John Adams that had been programmed for the last night of the proms and which they had to change.
5.- He was conducting this piece and, in a very quiet moment at the beginning a mobile started ringing. He stopped the piece, loked angrily at the person, and then started from beginning again.
6.- Sir Nicholas Kenyon was interviewed on the BBC the next day about this incident, and in the middle of the interview his phone rang.
IN THE STREET
4, 5, 3, 1, 4, 2
HARLEY, JORDAN, RAY, ANNE, MIKE
P. 82
GRAMMAR

USED TO DRIVING, TO HAVE, sARAH TO TALK, KILLING HER HUSBAND, APOLOGISED FOR BEING, AS A WAITER.
MEETING, CLEANING, TO GET, TO BE.

VOCABULARY

conDUctor, vioLInist, DRUmmer, Editor, comPOser, JOUrnalist, SOloist, rePORter, preSENter, COmmentator.
weather forecast, review, biased, catchy, tune, censored, pillow, snore, nap, insomnia.

PRONUNCIATION

WHOLE, CONVINCE, CROSSWORD, ACCURATE, CARTOON.
guiTArist, ORchestra, BIased, senSAtional, CRItic.

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?

B, A, B, B, C, A, B, C.

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS PEOPLE?

NOT MENTIONED, 5, 2, NOT MENTIONED, 1, 4, 3.
C, B, A, B, C.

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