II, страница 37 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Кузовлев, Перегудова

Unit 2. Let the music begin. Lessons 10-11 - страница 37.

Условие.

II READING COMPREHENSION

Jazz and country are popular musical styles with the long histories of their own.

What events are there in their histories? According to the text, mark statements 1–12 TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).

Jazz is called the most truly American musical form. New Orleans, Louisiana, is often called the birthplace of American jazz. It appeared in the early 1900s. Most important musicians in jazz history came from New Orleans including Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), one of the greatest jazz musicians. Louis Armstrong created a new jazz style by improvising solos and performing them in an unusual style. Improvising is very important for jazz. Good jazz singers and soloists must improvise freely and skillfully. Louis Armstrong is said to be the inventor of a new vocal style when instead of singing words, Armstrong sang sounds like “de-de-de” or “lat-dat-da-da” to imitate various musical instruments. Later Ella Fitzgerald (1918–1996) used this style with great success, brilliant Ella, who was called the First Lady of Song and who became the finest woman jazz singer of all time.

The 1940s are known as the time of Big Bands. Their catchy music was everywhere and people danced to Big Band Music. The Big Band includes thirteen or eighteen musicians. The Big Band period gave the world wonderful musicians as Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others who played to full houses in dance halls and ballrooms across America. Jazz itself includes different styles, the blues, for example. The blues songs are slow and they are almost always about unhappy love or different troubles.

Today jazz is no less popular in the United States. Though it has changed, it preserves old jazz traditions.

Country music is American, too. It comes from old ballads and cowboy songs. Country music singers always use guitars, banjos and fiddles, they don’t usually have big bands. The words of country songs are usually about unsuccessful love. In the 1920s, Nashville, Tennessee, became a centre for writing and recording of country music. During the 1940s and 1950s, radio made country music more popular. It also began to change. It sounded more like the commercial music of the time. Still country musicians came to Nashville to sing and to record their songs. In the 1970s, the “New Nashville” sound developed. Musicians started to use electric guitars. Country music has continued to be popular today. Some singers have gone back to the beginning of country music, they have continued to perform traditional country material. Meanwhile, new country styles are still developing and country music record labels are still situated in Nashville.

1) Jazz appeared in the USA, in the state of Louisiana.

2) Most famous jazz musicians of the time came to New Orleans, Louisiana, to sing jazz.

3) Louis Armstrong was a very famous musician who created improvising, a new jazz style.

4) Jazz singers and soloists are considered to be good if they improvise freely.

5) Louis Armstrong sang sounds in his songs instead of words, his “de-de-de” sounded like musical instruments.

6) Ella Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the best jazz singers ever.

7) Big Bands of 13 or 18 musicians were very popular in the 1940s.

8) The blues is a jazz style with sad and slow songs.

9) Country music was born in the 1920s in Nashville, Tennessee.

10) Country music hasn’t changed since it was born.

11) Nowadays traditional country music and new country styles with electric guitars are developing.

12) Today musicians don’t come to Nashville to record country music.

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Your score
Your mark	5	4	3	2

Решение.

Решение 2.

Джаз и кантри — популярные музыкальные стили со своей долгой историей. Какие события есть в их истории? Согласно тексту, отметьте утверждения 1–12 как ИСТИНА (T) или ЛОЖЬ (F).

Ответ:

1 T - True. (Истина.)

2 F - False. The text states that famous musicians came FROM New Orleans, not TO New Orleans. (Ложь. В тексте говорится, что известные музыканты были родом ИЗ Нового Орлеана, а не приезжали В Новый Орлеан.)

3 T - True. (Истина.)

4 T - True. (Истина.)

5 T - True. (Истина.)

6 T - True. (Истина.)

7 T - True. (Истина.)

8 T - True. (Истина.)

9 F - False. Nashville became a center for country music in the 1920s, but the music itself originated from old ballads and cowboy songs. (Ложь. Нэшвилл стал центром музыки кантри в 1920-х годах, но сама музыка произошла от старых баллад и ковбойских песен.)

10 F - False. The text mentions that country music began to change in the 1940s and 1950s and has continued to evolve. (Ложь. В тексте упоминается, что музыка кантри начала меняться в 1940-х и 1950-х годах и продолжила развиваться.)

11 T - True. (Истина.)

12 F - False. The text states that country music record labels are still situated in Nashville, implying musicians still go there. (Ложь. В тексте говорится, что студии звукозаписи кантри-музыки все еще находятся в Нэшвилле, что подразумевает, что музыканты до сих пор туда ездят.)