Номер 18, страница 30 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Уайт

18 T06 Read the article again and circle the best alternatives.

1 The article is about ____.

a a professional ballet performance.

b why young people become criminals.

c an unusual ballet performance.

d the ballet of Romeo and Juliet.

2 At the beginning of the evening, the critic thought the ballet was a ____ idea.

a great

b harmless

c crazy

d fascinating

3 The critic thought the performance was ____ going to be bad.

a probably

b possibly

c not

d definitely

4 The two men wanted to make a programme in which ____.

a amateur singers and dancers got jobs in a musical.

b professional dancers taught criminals to dance.

c ballet helped young people develop self-confidence.

d ballet dancers worked for a young people’s charity.

5 The two men ____ the programme would change people’s lives.

a thought

b couldn’t believe

c were certain that

d didn’t think

6 ____ chose the young people.

a Teenagers from an earlier project

b Professional dancers

c People with experience of difficult teenagers

d The two men and a television company

7 They chose Romeo and Juliet because ____.

a teenagers can recognise the problems in it.

b there are mirrors in it for the dancers to look in.

c it’s a funny story that everyone enjoys.

d the music and choreography are good.

8 At the end of the evening, the critic said ____.

a the performance was not very good.

b the performers weren’t good enough.

c the performance changed her mind.

d the performers weren’t mad.

Can ballet change lives?

1 Last night I was worried, very worried. I had the job of going to watch amateur ballet dancers performing on stage with one of the UK’s top professional ballet companies. A performance like this seemed very risky and I asked myself, ‘Are they mad?’ Before I tell you the answer, I’ll tell you why I had such big doubts.

2 The idea of mixing amateur and professional dancers started a couple of years ago when two friends with very different jobs found a way of working together. One of the men had created an award-winning TV series, Musicality, in which amateurs trained to perform in the musical Chicago. The other man runs a charity called Youth at Risk which works with young people who have serious problems with aggression and antisocial behaviour. Although it was a risk, the two men thought they could make a TV programme in which ballet changed the lives of young people with problems.

3 Their idea was this: if the young people could accept the strict discipline and challenge of ballet training, it would build their self-esteem and give them new confidence in themselves. The first step was to find suitable teenagers to take part and they asked teachers and youth workers already working professionally with young people at risk, to find candidates for the project. Through them 300 young people joined the programme and although about half dropped out, in the end sixty teenagers appeared on stage in the public performance.

4 The ballet they chose was Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. The story of Romeo and Juliet includes family conflict, the generation gap, gangs, murder, young love and teenage suicide, so it is the perfect mirror for the lives of troubled young people in today’s society.

5 Going back to my original question: ‘Are they mad?’ The answer is definitely ‘no’. As soon as the ballet started, my worries disappeared. It was amazing how these unlikely dancers were magically transformed into their characters. At the end of the evening I was left with this thought: ‘ballet can change lives’. It is a dancing cure, not a talking cure; it is silent so it stops arguments.

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1 The article is about c an unusual ballet performance.

Статья о c необычном балетном представлении.

2 At the beginning of the evening, the critic thought the ballet was a c crazy idea.

В начале вечера критик подумал, что балет был c сумасшедшей идеей.

3 The critic thought the performance was going to be bad. d definitely

Критик думал, что представление будет плохим. d определенно

4 The two men wanted to make a programme in which c ballet helped young people develop self-confidence.

Двое мужчин хотели создать программу, в которой c балет помог молодым людям развить уверенность в себе.

5 The two men a thought the programme would change people’s lives.

Двое мужчин a думали, что программа изменит жизни людей.

6 c People with experience of difficult teenagers chose the young people.

c Люди с опытом работы с трудными подростками выбрали молодых людей.

7 They chose Romeo and Juliet because a teenagers can recognise the problems in it.

Они выбрали «Ромео и Джульетту», потому что a подростки могут узнать в ней свои проблемы.

8 At the end of the evening, the critic said c the performance changed her mind.

В конце вечера критик сказал, что c представление изменило ее мнение.