Номер 58, страница 170 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Speaking. Unit 3. You are only a teenager once - номер 58, страница 170.

Условие.

58. a) Read the text "Rap Style" and answer the questions at the end.

RAP STYLE

According to statistics, a large number of teens watch music videos more than two hours a day. There on screen are cool and rebellious rappers, looking and sounding unique. Teens want a piece of that image. Wearing the same clothes as rappers who often sing violent and offensive lyrics can make the teens in such clothes feel very cool and rebellious too. And rap fashion is big business.

Rap and hip-hop were born in the ghettoes ['getəʊz] of New York City over 40 years ago. Not too many years later, hip hop enthusiasts began to wear expensive designer labels such as Polo, Ralph Lauren, Prada and Gucci. The clothes were often worn with a lack of respect to tradition or authority, e.g. wearing a baseball cap backwards or leaving shoelaces untied. Rappers wore enormous gold necklaces and drove costly cars. Sometimes the sparkle of the cars and jewellery was so extravagant it became known as bling bling.

Rap style so fashionable nowadays is not only wearing oversized hoodies¹ and oversized pants that are pulled down low. It is also rap language or rather rap slang used by many teens. Here are some rap words and expressions. Some of them you can often hear in songs:

bling bling — shiny, obviously very expensive

jack — to steal

banging — excellent, cool

diss (short for “disrespect”) — to insult someone

eye candy — someone who is good-looking, whose only aim is to look good and whose personality is not important

boo — girlfriend (like “baby” or “honey”)

crib — home

da bomb — very good

Middle-class white teens growing in wealthy neighbourhoods also spend long hours watching rap videos. They want to get away from boring American mainstream culture. Since white artists like Justin Timberlake and Eminem have been accepted by black rap culture, many white kids have become less self-conscious about adopting rap style. And what is a better way to express the generation gap than listening to music many parents find “offensive” and using words they have never heard of?

Rap wouldn't be rap without its bad-boy image. It's well known that some rap singers used to sell drugs and have faced murder charges. So, does rap glamorize crime? Some people say yes. Some say no. And what do you think?

b) Work in pairs and discuss rap culture. Here are some arguments. Think of more arguments and decide if rap is to blame for teen violence.

FOR

1. Rap is music of violence and crime as rappers sing of these things.

2. Teens want to look like rap idols and behave like them. And some rappers have spent some time in prison.

3. Rap music degrades women calling them bad names. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards women.

4. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards money making them believe that money is the most important thing in the world.

5. .........................................................................................................

AGAINST

1. Rap music can provoke people, it can alter people’s moods but it can’t load a gun or push the trigger.

2. Rap music doesn’t call for violence.

3. If there are words “guns” and “money” in the songs, it doesn’t mean that they call for killing and bribery.

4. .........................................................................................................

Решение.

Решение 2.

58. а) Прочитайте текст "Стиль рэп" и ответьте на вопросы в конце. Итак, приукрашивает ли рэп преступность? ... А что вы думаете?

Ответ:

I think rap music doesn't always glamorize crime, but some songs definitely do. It really depends on the artist and the song. Some rappers talk about their difficult past to warn others not to make the same mistakes. But others just brag about it, and that can make it seem cool to some people. So, it's complicated.

Я думаю, что рэп-музыка не всегда приукрашивает преступность, но некоторые песни определенно это делают. Это действительно зависит от исполнителя и песни. Некоторые рэперы рассказывают о своем трудном прошлом, чтобы предостеречь других от совершения тех же ошибок. Но другие просто хвастаются этим, и из-за этого некоторым это может показаться крутым. Так что, все сложно.

58. b) Поработайте в парах и обсудите рэп-культуру. Вот несколько аргументов. Придумайте больше аргументов и решите, виноват ли рэп в подростковом насилии.

Ответ:

FOR	AGAINST
ЗА	ПРОТИВ
1. Rap is music of violence and crime as rappers sing of these things. (Рэп — это музыка насилия и преступности, так как рэперы поют об этом.)	1. Rap music can provoke people, it can alter people's moods but it can't load a gun or push the trigger. (Рэп-музыка может провоцировать людей, она может менять их настроение, но она не может зарядить пистолет или нажать на курок.)
2. Teens want to look like rap idols and behave like them. And some rappers have spent some time in prison. (Подростки хотят выглядеть как рэп-идолы и вести себя как они. А некоторые рэперы провели некоторое время в тюрьме.)	2. Rap music doesn't call for violence. (Рэп-музыка не призывает к насилию.)
3. Rap music degrades women calling them bad names. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards women. (Рэп-музыка унижает женщин, называя их плохими именами. Рэп-песни влияют на отношение подростков к женщинам.)	3. If there are words “guns” and “money” in the songs, it doesn't mean that they call for killing and bribery. (Если в песнях есть слова "оружие" и "деньги", это не значит, что они призывают к убийствам и взяточничеству.)
4. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards money making them believe that money is the most important thing in the world. (Рэп-песни влияют на отношение подростков к деньгам, заставляя их верить, что деньги — самое важное в мире.)	4. People are responsible for their own actions. Music is just art, and it's a person's choice how to react to it. (Люди сами несут ответственность за свои поступки. Музыка — это просто искусство, и каждый сам выбирает, как на нее реагировать.)
5. The 'gangsta' image in rap can make teens more aggressive and disrespectful to authority, like teachers or parents. (Образ 'гангстера' в рэпе может сделать подростков более агрессивными и неуважительными к авторитетам, таким как учителя или родители.)

Decision: I think rap itself is not to blame for teen violence. Violence is a much bigger problem with many causes, like family problems or poverty. Rap music sometimes reflects these problems, but it doesn't create them. It's too simple to blame just the music.

Решение: Я думаю, что сам по себе рэп не виноват в подростковом насилии. Насилие — это гораздо более серьезная проблема со многими причинами, такими как проблемы в семье или бедность. Рэп-музыка иногда отражает эти проблемы, но не создает их. Слишком просто винить во всем только музыку.